. Book of the Royal blue . s apparent; it is not necessary tocarry a time table. To this excellent arrangement of sched-ules, is added, a most superior train service;Iulhnan cars, either parlor or sleeping areon all trains; the coaches are of the verynewest types that come from the siiopsfrom year to year; the dining car serviceis the best in the country. To be al)le totravel in a |)alatial train with no extra fare,other than the Pullman charge, a distanceof ititi miles in five hours with every lux-ury, is certainly the climax of modernrailroading. Last September the writer, after trans-acting
. Book of the Royal blue . s apparent; it is not necessary tocarry a time table. To this excellent arrangement of sched-ules, is added, a most superior train service;Iulhnan cars, either parlor or sleeping areon all trains; the coaches are of the verynewest types that come from the siiopsfrom year to year; the dining car serviceis the best in the country. To be al)le totravel in a |)alatial train with no extra fare,other than the Pullman charge, a distanceof ititi miles in five hours with every lux-ury, is certainly the climax of modernrailroading. Last September the writer, after trans-acting business in Washington, was com-pelled to be in New York at K oclock I. the same day. The train selected was the Lim-ited, which left the Baltimore i\: Ohiostation .at Washington at :! oclock in theafternoon, afibrding the fastest schedule offive hours and enabling me to keep myappointment. It was one of those beautifulSeptember days and the impressions re-ceived were delightful. 12 THE ROYAL ROAD TO NEW THE liOYAL Less than ten minutes after leaving thestation, the historic dueHng grounds ofRevolutionary times at Bladensburg, withthe old Calvert Mansion in the distance,was swiftly passed, and within the nexttwenty-five minutes Relay, Md., wasreached. There is something about Relay thatarouses interest, other than the very pic-turesque locality. Relay was so called because it was thefirst station out of Baltimore where horseswere changed way back in , when the Baltimore & Ohio, the first American rail-road, transjiorted its cars by horse-powerbefore the steam locomotive came into use. The great stone-arched railroad bridge,called the Thomas \iaduct, over thePatapsco River, which was built in 1829,still remains the oldest and grandest mon-ument of its kind in the world. In just forty-five minutes the train pulledinto Camden Station at Baltimore, and in-side often minutes more had passed throughthe great electric tunnel to Mount Royal,the up-tow
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