. Book of the Royal blue . TlIK li. .V 11. OX THE LAKK CHRAOci. land and Grafton, where the old gradesnumbered 125 feet to the mile and twentycars formerly made a mogul locomotivesnort like a surprised hippopotamus ina mucky African jungle. This is onthe Cincinnati & St. Louis line. Notless important in the Baltimore & Ohiorevolution are the new ties and rails thathave been laid on the mountain divis-ions, the rails being eighty-five poundsto the yard and thirty-three feet in lengtheach, as compared with former ones ofonlj si.\ty-seven pounds to the yard andthirty feet long. The R
. Book of the Royal blue . TlIK li. .V 11. OX THE LAKK CHRAOci. land and Grafton, where the old gradesnumbered 125 feet to the mile and twentycars formerly made a mogul locomotivesnort like a surprised hippopotamus ina mucky African jungle. This is onthe Cincinnati & St. Louis line. Notless important in the Baltimore & Ohiorevolution are the new ties and rails thathave been laid on the mountain divis-ions, the rails being eighty-five poundsto the yard and thirty-three feet in lengtheach, as compared with former ones ofonlj si.\ty-seven pounds to the yard andthirty feet long. The Royal Blue trainsrun between Washington and New Yorkin five hours over as fine a bit of trackas can be found in the world. The original Baltimore & Ohio wasa mountain, river and valley route, andin accordance with the primer engi-neering age faithfully followed natureslines. The modern engineering expert. A li. * O. (iBSEUVATIliX CAR. JiAPXi j-jiorcirr of rjrAi: is pointiriL; out the lilumlcrs of his pio-neer prcdci essors. and tlu- Baltimore &Ohio is pa_\ing the fiddler in the trans-mogrification. That its i;ro\\th andgreatness were not foreseen is empha-sized b} its haxing had to latterh burrowits way under the two important Ameri-can cities of Pittsburg and Baltimore,and build from Baltimore to Philadel-phia, besides which it now contiinplatesan elevated entrance and loop m Wash- ington. A great railwa)-, like a greatcity, is a knotty thing to create — a slowand stubborn process of evolution — andthe succeeding forces in this new portionof the world have btqueathed early pos-terit\ a series ol raihvax tangles thatonly the millenniinn may be h(ipe<l toperfect or idealize. The managementof the Baltimore tV Ohio is doing a Herculean part in the particular situationthat confronts \ in 400.
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