On July 25, 1864, Martinsburg was ground zero for a fight between two well-known war generals as part of a bigger picture., the famous raid on​ Chambersburg made by Confederates.

A Historical Timeline of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops

MARTINSBURG, W.Va., (July 16, 1877) - The great railroad strike of 1877 started on July 16 in Martinsburg, West Virginia in response to the cutting of wages for the second time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Striking workers would not allow any of the stock to roll until this second wage cut was revoked. The governor sent in state militia units to restore train service, but the soldiers refused to use force against the strikers and the governor called for federal

Built new at B&O Shops, Washington, Indiana (B&O Class I-5) in 1925, our Caboose spent most of its service life in West Virginia.

The whole of the outlaws were now driven into the engine house, and owing to the great number of wounded requiring our care, and not being supported by the other companies as we expected, we were obliged to return. Had the other companies come up we could have taken the engine house then. Immediately after we drew off.

The West Roundhouse at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops is the sole surviving cast-iron frame roundhouse in the world and is an important example of mid-19th century industrial building design, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Firefighters battled a massive blaze here Monday that destroyed Roundhouse No. 2, also known as the East Roundhouse in Martinsburg.

The Colonnade Bridge, constructed in the 1840s, carried the tracks of the railroad over Burke Street and Tuscarora Creek here. Destroyed in 1861 portions of its stonework pillars or abutments survive here at the base of the stone abutment.

It will be noticed that at the same time that the enemy were destroying such portions of the Road as they held, the Company's forces were rebuilding at all points where possession could be had and military protection afforded

On Monday the line of our road could be distinctly traced (from this point) from Opequon to Paxtons Cut by a continuous line of fires.

We arrived about five o'clock in the afternoon at Martinsburg, one hundred miles from our starting-point. At this station the Railroad Company have extensive work-shops and stabling for their iron animals, which are duly groomed and doctored, and make night and day hideous with their noise-reminding one of Paddy's description of the World's Fair