BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD CO. CONDUCTOR'S PULLMAN CAR / PASSENGER ENVELOPE 🚂

Description: 🚂 BALTIMORE & OHIO 🚂 RAILROAD COMPANY, CONDUCTOR'S PULLMAN CAR PASSENGER TICKET ENVELOPE. TYPE OF SCRIPOPHILY, EXONUMIA, NOTAPHILY: Conductor's ticket envelope and tally sheet for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. COMPANY NAME: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. CITY, COUNTY & STATE: Incorporated in the State of Maryland, Feb 28, 1827 QUANTITY: You will receive ONE envelope. NUMBER PRINTED: 25,000 copies were printed on October 27, 1949 (75-years old). The “Pullman Car” passenger envelope was printed shortly after World War II ended. GENERAL COLOR(S): Brown heavy card-stock type envelope, no glue on flap. MEASUREMENTS: 5” x 10½". EMBOSSING: None. TAXATION/REVENUE/OTHER STAMPS: None. FOLDS / CREASES: Envelope's flap is folded (as is normal). CORNERS: Great condition, nice and square. HOLES, TEARS, DAMAGE: None. In excellent condition! No folds (beyond the normal envelope flap fold); no creases, tears, rips, pens or pencil marks. ABOUT THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. It came into being mostly because the city of Baltimore wanted to compete with the newly constructed Erie Canal (which served New York City) and another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania, which would have connected Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. At first this railroad was located entirely in the state of Maryland with an original line from the port of Baltimore west to Sandy Hook. At this point to continue westward, it had to cross into Virginia (now West Virginia) over the Potomac River, adjacent to the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. From there it passed through Virginia from Harpers Ferry to a point just west of the junction of Patterson Creek and the North Branch Potomac River where it crossed back into Maryland to reach Cumberland. From there it was extended to the Ohio River at Wheeling and a few years later also to Parkersburg, West Virginia. Two men, Philip E. Thomas and George Brown, were the pioneers of the railroad. They spent the year 1826 investigating railway enterprises in England, which were at that time being tested in a comprehensive fashion as commercial ventures. Their investigation completed, they held an organizational meeting on February 12, 1827, including about twenty-five citizens, most of whom were Baltimore merchants or bankers. Chapter 123 of the 1826 Session Laws of Maryland, passed February 28, 1827, and the Commonwealth of Virginia on March 8, 1827, chartered the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, with the task of building a railroad from the port of Baltimore, Maryland west to a suitable point on the Ohio River. The railroad, formally incorporated April 24, was intended to provide not only an alternative to, but also a faster route for Midwestern goods to reach the East Coast than the seven-year-old, hugely successful, but slow Erie Canal across upstate New York. Thomas was elected as the first president and Brown the treasurer. The capital of the proposed company was fixed at five million dollars. Cornerstone of the B&O, laid July 4, 1828 by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, now displayed at the B&O Railroad Museum. Construction began on July 4, 1828, when Charles Carroll of Carrollton did the groundbreaking, and the first section, from Baltimore west to Ellicott's Mills (now known as Ellicott City), opened on May 24, 1830. In April 1987, the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company finally went out of corporate existence when it was formally absorbed into CSX Transportation. ABOUT THE PULLMAN CAR COMPANY: The Pullman Company, founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars from roughly 1862 through 1968 (during the boom of railroads in the United States). Through rapid development of mass production and takeover of rival car companies, the Pullman Car Company developed a virtual monopoly on production and ownership of sleeper cars. At the company's peak in the early 20th century, its cars accommodated 26 million people a year, and it in effect operated "the largest hotel in the world". Its production workers initially lived in a planned worker community, a company town known as "Pullman, Chicago." Pullman developed the sleeping car, which carried his name into the 1980s. Pullman did not just manufacture the cars, it also operated their cars on most railroad lines in the United States (paying the various railroad companies to couple Pullmans' cars to trains). In return, by the mid-20th century, these railroads would own Pullman outright. A labor union associated with the company, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, founded and organized by A. Philip Randolph, was one of the most powerful African-American political entities of the 20th century. After WWII, the expansion of automobile and airplane transportation led to a steep decline in the company's fortunes. Pullman collapsed in 1968, with a successor company continuing operations until 1981. SHIPPING COST꞉ To keep your shipping cost as low as possible, this item will ship in an oversize envelope without tracking at a flat fee of $2.70 for the first Baltimore & Ohio Pullman car ticket envelope and only 0.75¢ for each additional Baltimore & Ohio ticket envelope. For Buyers residing outside of the United States, to keep your shipping cost as low as possible, it's based on “DIM” (i.e. weight, package size and final destination). This item ships by United States Mail or eBay International Delivery. 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Price: 4.99 USD

Location: Dayton, Ohio

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