. Picturesque on the B. & O. . nd absorbing study! Not many roads, rail or turnpike, equal the PittsburghDivision in the picturesque, and there are not a few ofgenuine artistic cultivation who pronounce its course moreattractive in scenic grandeur than any other in the coun-try. The combination of water, rock and foliage is char-acteristic of the entire route, and the effects at times aresimply indescribable. Following the Casselman to theYoughiogheriy, and the Youghiogheny to the Monongahela,the road rarely leaves the water line, and as the mountainsclose in and rise high on either hand the p
. Picturesque on the B. & O. . nd absorbing study! Not many roads, rail or turnpike, equal the PittsburghDivision in the picturesque, and there are not a few ofgenuine artistic cultivation who pronounce its course moreattractive in scenic grandeur than any other in the coun-try. The combination of water, rock and foliage is char-acteristic of the entire route, and the effects at times aresimply indescribable. Following the Casselman to theYoughiogheriy, and the Youghiogheny to the Monongahela,the road rarely leaves the water line, and as the mountainsclose in and rise high on either hand the panorama is gloriousin the extreme. The track, based as it is almost literally uponsolid rock, is smooth and firm, and as the train flies aroundthe curves, and dashes in sharp competition to the surgingwaters, the sense of safety is absolute and the enjoymentperfect. Before long the Pittsburgh Division will play amuch more important part in the B. & O. system, as, withthe line completed from Connellsville to Wheeling, fully. four hours will be saved in the time to Chicago, and a new and remarkably attractive section opened up to the viewfrom the rail. Pittsburgh, too, is going to profit greatly bythe important acquisitions in railroad facilities. The B. &O. is already by seventy odd miles the shortest line thence toWashington, and with the rapid pushing now characteristicof the way of doing things at Pittsburgh, that city willspeedily become one of the most important centers of thecompanys system. The control of the Pittsburgh & Westernhaving passed into the hands of the B. «Sc ()., its lines, to-gether with others similarly managed, give a new and ad-vantageous route to Cleveland ; and the day is not far dis-tant when the through trains of the B. & 0. will not only runfrom New York over its own line to Pittsburgh direct, but toCleveland as well, and not unlikely to Detroit. But a com-paratively limited extent of additional construction will givethe B. & O. an entirely new rout
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