. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . of construction is much greater, thePennsylvania Company finds it more satisfactory, and believes it to becheaper in the end. The stone ballast allows the water from theheavy rains of autumn to percolate through it, leaving a dry bed for win-ter, and therefore free from the annoying frost upheavals, and consequentdisplacement of rails, as well as from the dust of summer, to which clayand gravel ballasted roads are subjected.
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . of construction is much greater, thePennsylvania Company finds it more satisfactory, and believes it to becheaper in the end. The stone ballast allows the water from theheavy rains of autumn to percolate through it, leaving a dry bed for win-ter, and therefore free from the annoying frost upheavals, and consequentdisplacement of rails, as well as from the dust of summer, to which clayand gravel ballasted roads are subjected. Jumping the track is neverknown on the Pennsylvania Road. This is believed to be due to thethorough construction of its bed. The accommodations provided for sunnner tourists on the line of thePennsylvania Railroad are misurpassed. Good hotels in all the townsreached by it are the rule, not the exception; and many of them areelegant in all their appointments. It would bs difficult to select anyhighway of travel anywhere that can compare, in the essentials of com-fort, safety, expedition, and interest, with the magnificjut system ofrailroads managed by this 250 POPULAR KESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. The day express from Pittsburg to Xew York is a wonderful result ofengineering skill. This magnificent run of four hundred and forty-four miles is made withbut three stoppages, — the first, of only five minutes, at Altoona, after astretch of one hundred and seventeen miles; the second, of twentyminutes for dinner, at Harrisburg, after an unbroken dash of one hun-dred and thirty-two miles; and the third and last, of only five minutes, atPhiladelphia, after a run of one hundred and five miles, leaving a singlestretch of ninety miles across Xew Jersey to destination. Xo time beinglost in stopping, the wonderful locomotive-engines work away with theregularity of fixed machinery, — iakimj their supply of water from the track-tanks as they go, and carryinr/ their fuel with th
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