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 Division 1976, and the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad bought them in 1990. Reading Division The Reading Division is a rail line owned and operated by the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The line runs from Reading, Pennsylvania north and east to Packerton, Pennsylvania along former Reading Company and Central Railroad of New Jersey lines. At its south end, it connects to the Norfolk Southern Railway's Reading Line; its east end is at Norfolk Southern's Lehigh Line which parallels the R&N's Lehigh Division. The piece from Reading north to Port Clinton, Pennsylvania was