. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock Vol. XVIII. 136 Liberty Street, New York, December. 1905 A Highland Railway subject of our front page engrav-ing is the terminals of the Oban Rail-way, at Oban, on the west coast ofScotland, a most picturesque ending ofa railway that extends from Dunblanesixty miles away through a series ofrugged Highland glens seldom equaled nicnts by the stupendous forces of seawaves, dashing rains and eroding their weirdness and hete
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock Vol. XVIII. 136 Liberty Street, New York, December. 1905 A Highland Railway subject of our front page engrav-ing is the terminals of the Oban Rail-way, at Oban, on the west coast ofScotland, a most picturesque ending ofa railway that extends from Dunblanesixty miles away through a series ofrugged Highland glens seldom equaled nicnts by the stupendous forces of seawaves, dashing rains and eroding their weirdness and heterogenous-ness are impressive to the passions of inanimate nature havebeen waged hereabout so tumultuouslythat one naturally expects to hear thatthe human denizens have been wild No. 12 nig point and refuge of early Christianteachers, and was afterwards destroyedl)y the piratical Norsemen; but otherchurches were built later and the isle isnow famous for ecclesiastical ruins andiclics. From here Christianity wasspread all over Scotland and a few cen-turies later a powerful delegation of. in scenic effects. The line is essentiallya tourist route, but the pretty town ofOban is both a summer and winter re-sort of hypochondriacs and health-seeking people. The place is also anentrepot for receiving Highland prod-ucts and for sending out supplies neces-sary to keep people alive in the moun-tain glens, haunts of storms and life-ex-hausting winter weather. These West Highlands are a chaosof shapeless mountains, torn into frag- A HIGHL.^ND KAILWAV TERMINUS. warriors and truculent neighbors whichthey certainly were. Yet this region was the first in Scot-land to receive the teaching of Chris-tianity. Perhaps the early missionarieswho preached the Christian gospelthought this region needed it most. Bethis as it may, it is certain that Colum-ba, an Irish Christian missionary, tookup his abode on lona, a small isle nearOban, as early as 563. He is said tohave built a church which
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