The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 erupted on July 14 when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year, triggering America's first multi-state labor uprising. Against the backdrop of the Long Depression—which had driven unemployment to 14 percent and slashed wages by half—railroad workers from West Virginia to California halted freight traffic across the nation. What began in Martinsburg spread to Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis, drawing supp

An assortment of steam locomotives of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, mainly in the Akron, Ohio region. This amazing color footage and more is available in the Herron Rail Video show "Glory Machines, Volume 2, 26 Railroads in the 1950s" https://rfd.video/GloryMachines2 | Steam Giants