FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Stefanie
Hare

410-752-2462, ext.
214

stefanie.hare@borail.org

B&O Railroad Museum Implements New Affiliations Program

Beginning in early 2008, the B&O Railroad Museum
developed and implemented a new affiliations
program. Three members have already joined the
program and the museum is anticipating more as the outreach program matures.

B&O Railroad Museum Affiliations was conceived in
late 1997 as a way to form a mutually beneficial
relationship with other railroad museums,
societies, historic sites and institutions. The
fee based program offers various benefits to its
members. Among these are opportunities to share
wholesale merchandise, trademark use, object
loans and staff consultation. This program also
offers an opportunity for mutual marketing of
both the Museum and the Affiliate to visitors and
members through its web site, brochure
distribution and provides a consulting
relationship invaluable for smaller and emerging
railroad heritage sites and organizations.

Among the program’s already established members
are The Garrett County Historical Society and
Museum located in Oakland, Maryland. This
Historical Society exhibits an impressive B&O
Railroad collection and interprets other
historical events and personages in this Maryland
county named after B&O Railroad president John
Work Garrett; The Grafton B&O Railroad Heritage
Center which is housed in the recently restored
1911 B&O railroad station in Grafton, West
Virginia. The B&O Heritage Center offers changing
exhibits, lectures and other events centered on
the B&O Railroad’s legacy in Grafton and West
Virginia and the Town of Rowlesburg, West
Virginia which owns The Depot Museum, a former
B&O railroad freight and passenger station
housing displays, artifacts, and a restored 1926 B&O caboose.

B&O Railroad Museum Director Courtney B. Wilson
stated “"the enthusiastic response of our first
Affiliates to the program has been very
rewarding. Artifacts from our collections, many
in storage for a long time, will soon be on their
way for exhibits and programs with our
affiliates. Lectures and other joint events are
in the planning stages for later this year. It is
my hope that this program will expand and
flourish as formal relationships begin to network
a host of great heritage sites with one another."”

Those interested in more information on the
affiliate program can visit
http://www.borail.orgor call 410-752-2490.

For media inquires or to schedule an interview
with the B&O Railroad Museum’s Executive
Director, Courtney B. Wilson, please contact
Stefanie Hare by calling 410-752-2462 x 214 or
via email at [url]stefanie.hare@borail.org[/url]

NOTES:
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, a full
affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is
dedicated to the preservation and interpretation
of American railroading and its impact on
American society, culture and economy. The Museum
is home to the oldest, most comprehensive
collection of railroad artifacts in the Western
Hemisphere including an unparalleled roster of
19th and 20th century railroad equipment. The
40-acre historic site is regarded as the
birthplace of American Railroading and includes
the 1851 Mt. Clare Station, the 1884 Baldwin
Roundhouse and first mile of commercial railroad
track in America. For further information on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, please call
410-752-2490 or visit <http://www.borail.org/>www.borail.org.