. Book of the Royal blue . the Governor of the state of Maryland, datedDec. 20th, 1831.—Editor.] Twelve to fifteen miles an average man nowadays is invariablyloud in his denunciation of a railroadwhich carries him to his business at lessthan forty-five miles an hour, and ex-pects sixty miles an hour when he is ona limited. Again quoting from the sameJournal of February 18, 1832, we find adaily report of tonnage. TRANSPORTATION ON THE BALTIMOREAND OHIO RAILROAD, MONDAY 13th. FEBV, 1832.,\rrived 68 wagons containing, Flour, - - - B72 Barrells. Leather, - - - 40 Stone, - - 2
. Book of the Royal blue . the Governor of the state of Maryland, datedDec. 20th, 1831.—Editor.] Twelve to fifteen miles an average man nowadays is invariablyloud in his denunciation of a railroadwhich carries him to his business at lessthan forty-five miles an hour, and ex-pects sixty miles an hour when he is ona limited. Again quoting from the sameJournal of February 18, 1832, we find adaily report of tonnage. TRANSPORTATION ON THE BALTIMOREAND OHIO RAILROAD, MONDAY 13th. FEBV, 1832.,\rrived 68 wagons containing, Flour, - - - B72 Barrells. Leather, - - - 40 Stone, - - 2 Tons. Granite, - - - 38 , - - - 42 59 wagons with Lumber, plaster,bricks, Groceries, Merchandise, Coal & arrived 44—departed 37. To give a daily report of tonnage to-day is a matter of absolute impossibility,but some idea of comparison can be ob-tained from the total tonnage carriedby the B. & O. for the fiscal year endingJune 30, 1897, which was approximately19,000,000 STKAIJNC. RAILROAD ENCilNKS. I Copi/riii/il IS Ih, N. s. McChir, A MONG the earliest and most per-■-^ plexing problems that confrontedthe Confederate leaders in the civil warwas that of railroad transportation . Theterritory controlled by them at the be-ginning of the struggle—roughly speak-ing, that lying south of the Potomac—was threaded by numerous railways, theequipment of which was fully equal tothe requirements of peace traffic; butwhen war came and there were massesof men, horses, food, ordnance and The plan based on the axiom thatall is fair in love and war, was nothingmore or less tlian that of seizing therolling stock of a northern road and ap-propriating it to use on the southern lines,which included the Raleigh and (iaston,from Raleigh. North Carolina, to nearPetersburgh, Virginia; the North Caro-lina Central, from Raleigh to Charlotte,North Carolina, and the Virginia Cen-tral, from (jonlonville. Xirginia. to Rich-mond. f^--
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