Shenandoah (B&O train) Shenandoah (B&O train) The Shenandoah was an American named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), one of four daily B&O trains operating between Jersey City, New Jersey and Grand Central Station in Chicago, Illinois, via Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the 1930s to the 1950s. Other B&O trains of that period on the route were the "Capitol Limited", "Columbian", and the "Washington - Chicago Express". An alternate branch originated in Detroit and met with the Chicago part of the train at Deshler, Ohio, south of Toledo. While the trains were advertised as beginning in New York
New Jersey Avenue Station NW & 2nd Street NW starting in 1835. On May 31 1850, the Washington Board of Aldermen and Common Council approved a resolution for the removal of the old B&O Depot from Pennsylvania Avenue NW & 2nd Street NW. This was the primary goal of the resolution. Here are the conditions approved by the Council. The B&O Railway Company would have to: In exchange, the City Council would grant the B&O Railway Company the right to use steam-propelling cars on the line in the City of Washington on the current line for up to thirty years as it had done