To compete with the commercial explosion in New York after the construction of the Erie Canal, the leaders of the port of Baltimore, proposed to build a 600km railway line connected to the Ohio River in Wheeling, West Virginia.
In 1827 the Baltimore & Ohio Railway became the first American company to sign a first to transport both passengers and freight, as well as the first American railway company to use steam locomotives to transport both freight and passengers.
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