. Book of the Royal blue . THE & 0. ON THE LAKE FRONT.—SOUTH CHICAGO. 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 ofonly sixty-seven pounds to the yard andthirty feet long. The Royal
. Book of the Royal blue . THE & 0. ON THE LAKE FRONT.—SOUTH CHICAGO. 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 ofonly sixty-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 * 11. OBSERVATION IAR. //.//.\ / THOl GHT / IIIA I 17 is pointing out the blunders of his pio-neer pred<!i cssors, and tin- Baltimon &Ohio is paying the fiddler in the trans-mogrification. That its growth andgreatness were not foreseen is empha-sized by its having had to latterly burrowits way under the two important Ameri-can cities of Pittsburg and Baltimore,and build from Baltimore to Philadel-phia, besides which it now contemplatesan elevated entrance and loop in Wash ington. A great railway, like acity, is a knotty thing to create — a slowand stubborn process of evolution — andthe SUCi eeding forces in this new portionof the world 1i;p. bi queathed 1terity a series of railwaj tangles thatonly thi millennium may be hoped toperfect or idealize. The managementof the Baltimore & Ohio is doing a Her-culean part in the particular situationthat confronts it. Letter in 400.
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