Ambassador (B&O train) ID). The story made national headlines, and the pair were subsequently sentenced to twenty years in federal prison. Firsthand account from the head bandit, Luman Ramsdell, in book by author "Wilson Casey", "Bedlam on the West Virginia Rails", 2015 History Press. 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.
Reading, Pennsylvania to Eastern Pennsylvania, and lent its name to the now-defunct Reading Railroad, which transported anthracite coal from the Pennsylvania Coal Region to the eastern United States via the Port of Philadelphia. Reading Railroad is one of the four railroad properties in the classic United States version of the "Monopoly" board game. Reading was one of the first localities where outlet shopping became a tourist industry. It has been known as "The Pretzel City", because of numerous local pretzel bakeries. Currently, Bachman, Dieffenbach, Tom Sturgis, and Unique Pretzel bakeries call the Reading area home. According to the 2010 census, Reading has