. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . re City andthe State of Maryland arc housed in the Maryland Pa- 258 RAILWAY ANT) LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING September, 1927 vilion, a fair-sized building constructed of wide clapboardpainted white, located near the Traffic Building. The major feature of the State exhibits is a workingpanoramic model illustrating the construction of a con-crete road by the Maryland State Roads Commission,from the laying of the sub-grade to the finished scene is in the Middleton Valley. A stone crusher,
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . re City andthe State of Maryland arc housed in the Maryland Pa- 258 RAILWAY ANT) LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING September, 1927 vilion, a fair-sized building constructed of wide clapboardpainted white, located near the Traffic Building. The major feature of the State exhibits is a workingpanoramic model illustrating the construction of a con-crete road by the Maryland State Roads Commission,from the laying of the sub-grade to the finished scene is in the Middleton Valley. A stone crusher,operated by electricity, is shown in the operation of pul-verizing material taken from a nearby quarry. A steamroller is seen rolling the first foundation of the road. Alittle farther on there are men fixing the steel forms forthe concrete, and still farther a dumping truck and aconcrete mixer. Last comes the finishing machine, whichputs the final touches to the concrete highway. The roadat one place runs over a stream of real water, filled withsmall live fish. The scene is at once picturesque and. The Locomotive Pioneer of the Cumberland Valley Railroad instructive, pointing out the fact that Maryland is thepioneer road builder of the South. A display by the Agricultural Department of the Uni-versity of Maryland shows a large elaborate relief map ofthe State, made to the scale of one mile to the inch. Thewhole topographical layout of Maryland is representedplainly and accurately in natural colors. Towns, light-houses, and other points of interest are illuminated elec-trically. Red lines represent county boundaries; lavenderlines, State roads; and black lines, railroads. Groupedabout the large platform on which the map is spread arevarious farm products of Maryland—vegetables, grains,fruits, and grasses—showing the high quality of agricul-tural products of the State. The Conservation Department of the State gives anextremely interesting display illustrating its jurisdiction
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