. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . PAUL DELLARIA. F. F. HANLY Agent Kid well at Green Spring, while lookingthrough records at that station, found severalstation train registers for the month of May,1883. In examining the record for May 12,1883, it is assumed that it must have been aheavy days work, as four sections of circustrains appear to have been moved in additionto other trains. The word 1 Jumbo is written along side therecord of the circus trains and it is inferred thatthis is the earliest date the celebrated elephantmade his appearance in this neighborhood. It is noted that the w
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . PAUL DELLARIA. F. F. HANLY Agent Kid well at Green Spring, while lookingthrough records at that station, found severalstation train registers for the month of May,1883. In examining the record for May 12,1883, it is assumed that it must have been aheavy days work, as four sections of circustrains appear to have been moved in additionto other trains. The word 1 Jumbo is written along side therecord of the circus trains and it is inferred thatthis is the earliest date the celebrated elephantmade his appearance in this neighborhood. It is noted that the word Ringer appearson several of the train icgisters and to find whatthe word implied at that time inquiry was madeof several men, old in the service. Colonel W. J. LaVelle, of Tunnelton, who hasbeen connected with the road for a number ofyears, advises that the word Ringer was usedto embrace twelve trains in a convoy that weremoved successively in one direction. He statesit was unusual to get a Ringer in a convoyand that the meaning of the word implied
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