. The locomotive engineer . ican continent that makes a nearer approach, on solarge a scale, lo u museum of antiquity than thesesame shops. located, as they are, within the corpo-rate limits of the chief city of Maryland. mo, HUT SI^EPT. The B. d£ O. is a gigantic system, the owners ofone of Ihe most valuable and extensive fran-chises in the country, but comes a long way frombeing a model road. lis lines reach from New York to Chicago,and. radiating from Baltimore, cover u vastextent of tcrrilory. the very heart of the coal,coke, iron and oil industry of the nation. In own or control
. The locomotive engineer . ican continent that makes a nearer approach, on solarge a scale, lo u museum of antiquity than thesesame shops. located, as they are, within the corpo-rate limits of the chief city of Maryland. mo, HUT SI^EPT. The B. d£ O. is a gigantic system, the owners ofone of Ihe most valuable and extensive fran-chises in the country, but comes a long way frombeing a model road. lis lines reach from New York to Chicago,and. radiating from Baltimore, cover u vastextent of tcrrilory. the very heart of the coal,coke, iron and oil industry of the nation. In own or control 2,954 mile* of track, and pull87,000 care of their own, with 780 engines. Before the war it was the best road in the Union,and its repulaliun then is still quoted by its is safe to say that, had this great property been inthe hands of a progressive management, like thePennsylvania, it would have been to-day a four-track, stone-ballasted road from end lo end of itsmain lines, instead of ihe single-track, The Wesiinghoiise Air-brake Co. have completedthe removal of the entire plant from AlleghenyCity to their magnificent new shops at The general olllce of the company will re-main, as heratofore, in Pittsburgh, and the oldabops will be occupied by the Fuel Gas and Slanu-fncluriug Co., another Wcsiinghouse new shops arc in full blast, and by their usethe output is very largely increased, and it needsbe, for the demand for power brakes was nevergreater. A New Tendkh Design, rough-and-ready line that it now is. Between Bal-timore and Philadelphia tbcy have a fine road bed,but west of Baltimore it is simply horrible, in com-parison with other lines in the same field, INADKqlATK The most primitive of switch targets are used,nnd many of these arc without lights. Accidents,e.«|H-cially to freight trains, are regular, and appall-ing in their magnitmlc. This is partly due to badtrack, but more to bad equipment. CAI-AMITY CABS.
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