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Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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he Western Maryland Railway originallyextended just 106 miles to a small pointknown as Cherry Run, Md. About theyear 1902 the Western Maryland, havingplayed the part of a local road for somethirty years, began the great task of en-tering the western field, and today has of single track road. Its rolling stockconsisted of ancient locomotives and cars,of which there were but few. Today,with its 1,000 miles of road, it is carry-ing on the work of eliminating curves, re-ducing grades, increasing its terminal fa-cilities and purchasing of modern roll-ing stock. The illustration shows the West Vir-ginia Limited as it is leaving Baltimore. lines pass, mines and quarries of coal,limestone, iron ores, copper, clays andsilica sand and vast areas of lumber arefound in abundance and of the finestquality. From the City of Baltimore the roadtraverses one of the best agricultural dis-tricts of the Piedmont plateau, passingthrough Westminster and other cities un-til Thurmont is reached. From thence a
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THE WEST VIRGINIA LIMITED ON THE WESTERN MARYLAND RAILWAY. succeeded in becoming a link in a greateast and west trunk line. It is true thatto date the work has only partially beencompleted; but give this enterprising roada few more years, and we shall have inthe Western Maryland one of the lead-ing east and west lines touching the At-lantic seaboard. In the year 1902 this road, includingits branches, consisted of about 250 miles It will be noticed that the locomotive isof the Pacific type. The cars are of thesteel underframe type and the train isequipped with parlor cars and observa-tion car. As to the natural resources, an eminentexpert has said : I know of no railwayof equal mileage possessing as great nat-ural resources. Besides the surpassingagricultural districts through which its gradual ascent of the Blue Ridge Moun-tains is made. As the train ascends themountain side, it seems that anothercountry is before the traveler, for as hesits in the palatial observation parlor carsor p

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