This 26' Civil War Era Tank Car is painted brown with white lettering.  The Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad is one of the oldest railroads in the nation.  It was chartered on February 28th, 1827.  Ground was broken on July 4th, 1828.  The first stone was laid by Charles Carroll who was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.  It was the first common carrier and Class 1 Railroad in the United States.  The B&O was the first railroad to offer scheduled freight and passenger service to the public and was the first railroad to publish a timetable.  By the beginning of the Civil War the B&O owned more than 75 locomotives, 2,000 freight cars and more than 100 passenger cars.