. Book of the Royal blue . EEDS LIKE SUCCESS. PREPARATIONS FOR THE WORLDS FAIR. The passenger business of the Baltimore & Ohio has increased so rapidly during the pastthree years as to necessitate the purchase of a large number of passenger equipment the past two years JOO new passenger coaches and five dining cars have been added,and the total equipment will be increased next year by the addition of forty coaches, each 60feet in length, fifteen 60-foot baggage cars, fifteen 60-foot combination bjggage and passengercars, ten combination mail and baggage cais and two 40-foot postal
. Book of the Royal blue . EEDS LIKE SUCCESS. PREPARATIONS FOR THE WORLDS FAIR. The passenger business of the Baltimore & Ohio has increased so rapidly during the pastthree years as to necessitate the purchase of a large number of passenger equipment the past two years JOO new passenger coaches and five dining cars have been added,and the total equipment will be increased next year by the addition of forty coaches, each 60feet in length, fifteen 60-foot baggage cars, fifteen 60-foot combination bjggage and passengercars, ten combination mail and baggage cais and two 40-foot postal cars, at a cost of nearly$600,000. Contracts will be let in the near future. Comprehensive views of the new diningcars are contained in this volume. The improvements that have been completed and those in process of construction haveattracted much attention, and it is expected that by the Spring of 1904 the line will have tocare for a very largely increased business in addition to the travel to the St. Louis MB. CHRISTIAN <lr(;ve the- liorsi-trninB rf the Boltimoro & Ohio RnilrotiJ before the dnys of the locomotive. Book of the Royal Blue. Published Monthly by thePassenger I)FrAK imknt ok the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Vol. VI. BALTIMORE, SEPTEMBER, 1903. No. 12. MR. CHRISTIAN SMITH. VETERAN OF RAILROAD MEN. INCREDIBLE it may seem to be, yet thereis living to-day a man, hale and hearty,who was not only identified with theconstruction and operation of the firstrailroad in America, but who, after con-tinuous service with that company forforty-one years, has lived to watch themarvelous strides of this vast industry. «<«?-^..
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