. Book of the Royal blue . eriod in with the plan followed throughoutthe exhibit—historical and modern. The St. Louis is, of course, forspecial use on a part of the Baltimore &Ohio system requiring extra-heavy is a pusher. In a sense, a mountainclimber, and a most interesting object lessonis afforded by the placing alongside of herof the Peppersauce, the first mountainclimbing locomotive in the world, the station proper. The latter in model enablesa grand conception of the most impressivebeauty and spaciousness of the structure,for it is on the scale of an inch to the fo
. Book of the Royal blue . eriod in with the plan followed throughoutthe exhibit—historical and modern. The St. Louis is, of course, forspecial use on a part of the Baltimore &Ohio system requiring extra-heavy is a pusher. In a sense, a mountainclimber, and a most interesting object lessonis afforded by the placing alongside of herof the Peppersauce, the first mountainclimbing locomotive in the world, the station proper. The latter in model enablesa grand conception of the most impressivebeauty and spaciousness of the structure,for it is on the scale of an inch to the footand so constructed and arranged as to en-able interior as well as exterior is the largest architectural model evermade. Is upwards of seventy feet in lengthand fifty in width, with height in propor-tion. The mounting is such as to permitof views from all points, the introductionof electric lights enhancing effects which asa whole command undisguised station will be the largest, the most. THE HADLEY MODEL. original old engine on which PresidentLincoln, General Grant, Commodore Van-derbilt, Horace Greeley and many otherdistinguished men of bygone days madethe ascent of Mt. Washington. Centering the great space filled from endto end by the enterprise and liberality ofthe Baltimore & Ohio Company, is the re-markable model of the new Union Stationat Washington. In the division of thework of assuring a gateway to the NationalCapital commensurate with its rapidlyexpanding importance, the PennsylvaniaCompany constructs the approaches, term-inals, etc., and the Baltimore & Ohio the costly and perfectly appointed in the a hint of its interior jjossibilities uponoccasions of national interest, the concourse,a single hall, room or area, as it may betermed, without column, pillar or post,will — allowing each four feet square —afford standing room for twenty-four thou-sand, six hundred persons. No structureunder roof in the world has anything lik
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