Five hundred kits are being distributed to school groups that visit the Children's Museum and the Martinsburg Roundhouse, which is managed by the Berkeley County Roundhouse Authority.

A Historical Timeline of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops

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 Striking workers would not allow any of the stock to roll until this second wage cut was revoked.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 troops.Meanwhile, the strike spread to Baltimore...