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Baltimore & Ohio 28-1 Heavyweight

• Introduced: 1915
  
• Production ends: 1965
  
• Top Speed: 180
  
• Lifespan: 40 years

Two paint schemes are included:

• Baltimore & Ohio Standard
  
• Baltimore & Ohio "Bradshaw" Named Coach

The Baltimore & Ohio railroad was one of the first railroads in the U.S. It was responsible for many innovations in the railway industry, and played a key role in the American Civil War. The B&O had many named passenger trains by the height of the railway industry at the end of WWII, many of which used parlor cars such as these. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway took financial control of the B&O in 1963, and merged with it and the Western Maryland Railway in 1973, becoming known as Chessie System. Today, the Chessie System has since been merged into CSX Transportation.

Steel parlor cars like these would have been used on the B&O's flagship passenger trains up until streamliners began appearing in the 1930s and 1940s. Steel heavyweight cars also replaced earlier wooden heavyweight cars that were more easily damaged, less durable and prone to wood rot.