We regret to report that Baltimore historian James D. Dilts, the author of "The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation’s First Railroad, 1828-1853," as well as co-author of several noted books on Baltimore architecture, has died unexpectedly of heart failure yesterday, May 8th,aged 82. He was at Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital when he passed away. He also served as the president of the Peale Center (formerly the Peale Museum), and had just completed a book on railroad architecture nationwide, "The World the Trains Made: A Century of Great Railroad Architecture in the United States and Canada," which is to be released in early September.

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