. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . The joinings of the ends ofthe scantlings to each other, must, inevery case, be on a sleeper, the keyswill be made by the contractor, ofwood, found him by the company. Before the iron is laid, the uppersurface of each line ofstring pieceswill be made to present a fair andcontinuous even plane lengthwise ofthe road, and on straight lines andslight curvatures, they will be ofcorresponding levels across the track. The string pieces having been laidas aforesaid, the iron rails, or bars,being about 15 feet long, 2^ incheswide, and 5-8 an inch thick each, an
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . The joinings of the ends ofthe scantlings to each other, must, inevery case, be on a sleeper, the keyswill be made by the contractor, ofwood, found him by the company. Before the iron is laid, the uppersurface of each line ofstring pieceswill be made to present a fair andcontinuous even plane lengthwise ofthe road, and on straight lines andslight curvatures, they will be ofcorresponding levels across the track. The string pieces having been laidas aforesaid, the iron rails, or bars,being about 15 feet long, 2^ incheswide, and 5-8 an inch thick each, andwhich are to form the surface of theRail-Road, on which the carriagewheels will be made to roll, are nextto be laid by the contractor upon thesaid strings of wood, and at about ^of an inch, more or less, from theinner edge of the same, as shall bedirected, and so as to form a carriagetrack of proper cvuvature, and of 4feet g% inches width, between theiron rails, or of such other width at 10 Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, June, IQ2I. A Baltimore and Ohio Passenger Car in 1830 What an Editor said of Train-riding in 1831 Mr. Gales, Editor of the NationalIntelligencer, wrote on October 31, 1831,giving an account of his journey betweenBaltimore and Ellicotts Mills on theBaltimore and Ohio Railroad: We travelled in a large car drawn byone horse, carrying eight or ten persons. In the distance between Baltimoreand Ellicotts Mills the horse was changedonce, going and coming. In going wedid not accurately reckon time, but inreturning, the whole distance of 13 mileswas performed in 59 minutes—the limitto the speed being the capacity to thehorse in trotting, rather than the laborhe was asked to perform. The locomo-tive steam engine, in the train of whichcars loaded with persons are occasionallydrawn, as well as those loaded with ma-terials of commerce, is propelled at thesame rate and might be propelled muchmore rapidly if it were desirable. Butfor our part we have no desire to be car-rie
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