. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . fying improvement. Anoutlay of $24,000 has just been made forthe most recent safety appliances forequipment. 184 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. June, 1915. Extensive Improvements on the B. & 0. Details of the Magnolia Cut-off One of the most important improve-ments in American railroads, and knownas the Magnolia Cut-off, occuring on theBaltimore and Ohio railroad, and callingfor engineering skill of the very highestorder, has been described and illustratedby Mr. A. W. Thompson, vice
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . fying improvement. Anoutlay of $24,000 has just been made forthe most recent safety appliances forequipment. 184 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. June, 1915. Extensive Improvements on the B. & 0. Details of the Magnolia Cut-off One of the most important improve-ments in American railroads, and knownas the Magnolia Cut-off, occuring on theBaltimore and Ohio railroad, and callingfor engineering skill of the very highestorder, has been described and illustratedby Mr. A. W. Thompson, vice-presidentof the company, and published by theEngineers Society of Western Pennsyl-vania. The improvements provide for the descend on a per cent compensatedgrade to Little Cacapon, a distance oftwelve miles. A saving of miles indistance and 877 degrees in curvature iseffected. It will be noted on the accompanyingchart, beginning at Orleans road, that thewindings of the Potomac river are some-what tortuous and the hills, although notover 300 feet in altitude, are clustered 1JTTLI CAOPW. MAGNOLIA CUT-OFF, BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. additional tracks and facilities whichwere absolutely necessary in order tohandle the present heavy business, andprovide for a reasonable increase. This section is known as the first por-tion of a four-track system which will begradually extended from Patterson Creekto Brunswick, a distance of 95 miles. Itis being constructed on a grade schemewhich is in line with a general grade re-vision of the Baltimore and Ohio railroadfrom the Maryland. West Virginia and thicker than the stars in the milky wayof heaven. At Doe Gully the originalDoe Gully tunnel is removed and exca-vations made for four tracks, and insteadof following the river it passes throughRandolph tunnel, which is 1,014 feet inlength. Partially following the old tracks,the new road diverges to the south andpasses through Stuart tunnel, 3,318 feetin length. Emerging at Magnolia at rig
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