Ambassador (B&O train) Ambassador (B&O train) The Ambassador was a named train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) on its route between Baltimore, Maryland and Detroit, Michigan with major station stops in Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Toledo, Ohio. Inaugurated in 1930, the "Ambassador" was discontinued in 1964. The B&O began passenger service from Detroit to Washington, D.C. in 1920. Until 1925, the B&O offered a through Washington - Detroit Pullman sleeping car running on a Washington-Chicago train to Deshler, Ohio then added to a Cincinnati - Detroit train. In June 1925, the B&O started a through overnight Washington - Detroit
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines 1931, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) ordered the two companies to join their southern New Jersey lines into one company. The "Consolidation Agreement" decreed that the Pennsylvania Railroad had two-thirds ownership, and the Reading Company had one-third ownership. But the post-war rise of the automobile and the Atlantic City Expressway, built in the 1960s, not only caused people to abandon the railroad for their cars, but also to abandon Atlantic City for more exotic vacation destinations (e.g. Florida). By the late 1960s, the surviving former Camden and Atlantic City Main Line was reduced to a commuter service funded