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Trip Name	Destination	Start Date
2015 Gala Banquet	Normandie Farm, Potomac, MD	March 22, 2015	RESERVE NOW!
The Old Main Line Explorer	Baltimore & Ohio’s Old Main Line	May 9, 2015	RESERVE NOW!
Vermont Rails 2015	New York, NY; Rutland, VT	June 13, 2015	RESERVE NOW!
The Night Owl	Boston	July 2, 2015	RESERVE NOW!

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Recent Announcements

Explore the B&O's Old Main Line with DCNRHS & John Hankey The Old Main Line Explorer Study Tour Announced - May 9Tucked away in a series of river and stream valleys, is the Baltimore & Ohio’s Old Main Line. Still operated ...
Posted Feb 12, 2015, 8:55 PM by James Lilly
Nominate a Senior High Student for RailCamp 2015 Scholarship! DCNRHS is once again sponsoring a scholarship to RailCamp in 2015. This year we are sponsoring a scholarship for one lucky high school student to RailCamp in Wilmington, DE July ...
Posted Feb 2, 2015, 5:12 PM by James Lilly
Rare Photograph of Collinsville Inn Found One of our members recently found a 2" b&w negative of the Collinsville Inn, our 1949 Pennsylvania Passenger car that we are working to restore. This is a real ...
Posted Jan 19, 2015, 3:03 PM by James Lilly
Keynote for 2015 Gala Announced Our President and Social Committee are jointly pleased to announce that Marc Hoecker, Director of Strategic Planning for Norfolk Southern, will be the keynote speaker at our annual gala. Details ...
Posted Jan 12, 2015, 4:56 AM by James Lilly

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Safety Rule of the Month - History Archives

February 2015

Rule 18: Mixed trains having 50 per cent, or more empty cars will be considered empty trains; trains having less than 60 per cent empty cars will be considered loaded trains.

Instructions Governing the operation of air brakes, train air signal equipment, and electric lighting of locomotives and passenger cars - General Instructions to Enginemen -The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., the Alton Railroad Co., effective April 1, 1941 - assigned to P. O. Butts, Fireman.

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Upcoming Seminars

Date	Time	Topic	Location	Description
February 20, 2015	8:00 PM	The D&RGW Narrow Gauge in 16mm by Dick Pratt	Silver Spring, MD B&O Station	In an encore presentation Dick Pratt will share more of his original 16mm films from the 1950's. This time he will take us west featuring the D&RGW narrow gauge in places like Durango, Farmington, Silverton, Chama, Cumbres Pass, Antonito, and Alamosa. The freight and mixed operations caught in these films is not re-enacted for the photographers but in-service making revenue (slim as it may have been). For an added bonus Dick will also share a short reel of Mexican steam focused on the Mexico City to Ozumba portion of the narrow gauge to Puebla.Free and open to the public.
March 20, 2015	8:00 PM	A railroad related program to be announced.	GWMNM-Alexandria, VA	Free and open to the public.

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DCNRHS (The National Railway Historical Society, Washington, D.C. Chapter, Inc.) is a non-profit 501(c) organization founded in the District of Columbia in 1944. Gifts are tax-deductible to the maximum extent permitted under the Internal Revenue Code.