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
Monopoly (game) with the reprinted 1935 edition states that the four railroads that served Atlantic City in the mid-1930s were the Jersey Central, the Seashore Lines, the Reading Railroad, and the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Baltimore & Ohio (now part of CSX) was the parent of the Reading. There is a tunnel in Philadelphia where track to the south was B. & O. and track to the north is Reading. The Central of N.J. did not have a track to Atlantic City but was the daughter of the Reading (and granddaughter of the B. & O.) Their track ran from the New York