Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Kua tata ki te whā tekau tau te maha o te tau 25 e mahi ana i runga i te Baltimore me Ohio. Ko te nekeneke tetahi o nga miihini i toia te tereina i kawe i a Aperahama Lincoln mai i Springfield, Illinois, ki Washington, DC, mo tana whakatuunga i te tau 1861. I whakahoutia ki te 55 i te tau 1882 ka mutu i te tau 1892 i te wa i tukuna ai ki te rokiroki. He waimarie, i tino manakohia e te Baltimore me Ohio ana miihini, a ka tiakina ona tauira pai, tae atu ki te nama 25. I whakaaturia te pūkaha i te Chicago's World Fair o 1893, ka i
Ko te Whakaaturanga o St. Louis o te tau 1904. I te tau 1927, i tapaina te nama 25 ko "William Mason" hei whakahonore i tana kaihanga, a i whakaatuhia i te Fair of the Iron Horse o te raina tereina, i te 1939 New York World's Fair, me te mutunga i te 1948 i te Chicago Railroad Fair. I te 1951, i tukuna te miihini ki te Erie Railroad, e mahi ana hei whakaaturanga haereere hei waahanga o te whakanui i te rau tau o te raina tereina. I te kore e whakaatuhia, i noho tonu ki te rokiroki tae noa ki te 1953, i te wa i whakaatuhia ai ki te Whare Taonga o Baltimore me Ohio Railroad Museum, kei reira tonu.