The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-03-28
The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad.

The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad.
This road is now locating a connection with
the Northern Central railroad from near Tow
sontown to point near the Relay House.
After this work is finished it is said that the
engineer corps will be transferred to the
neighborhood ofBel Air, and that the loca-
ton of the road, so far as the Susquehanna,
will be vigorously pushed The first named
work, or the short line from Towsoniown to
the Northern Central, is evidently an econom-
ic measure. BY this connection, n cheap
entrance into Baltimore is at once secured .
and the great outlay for land damages and
station buildings adjourned to time when
the success of the road may warrant the OK
penditure. The work of location near to
and east of Bel Air will be followed at once
by an application for right of way and we
trust there will not be found in our county
one man so blind tc his own interests as to
refuse all reasonable assistance to this much
needed road. What we want is a rairoad :.
we VIII thank and assist any company who
will make it, and we do not care with which
OF the mammoth corporations they may see
fit to combine. Sooner or later these powerful
corporations must swallow up all the smaller
ones, no matter how successful they may be.
Witness the West Chester railroad, about 81
miles long, running through rich country,
costing, all told, with its equipments and
$500 900 worth of real estate, about eighteen
hundred thousand dollars, much of which has
been paid from its earnings. While it made
last year clear profit of $780, 900, it saw so
much ofits stock go over into the hands of the
Pennsylvania Central that it may he consid-
cred under the control of that body The
Pennsylvania Central wanted that real estate
which gave the West Chester the best posi-
BILE entrance into West Philadelphia, or
rather it did not want any other road to get
it. Let us hope that We may see as success
FIJI an enterprise rs that of the West Chester
which, too had its dark days-and we
will not trouble ourselves as to the parties
who may work it for us.
The connection with the Northern Central
would seem to indicate that the new railroad
is TO be built ofthe ordinary gauge, unless it
is contemplated to lay an additional track
from the point ofjunction to the city, to az
commodate the narrow gauge cars. This sup
POSITIONS further strengthened by the fact
that the road bed already made is as wide
as that of the Northern Central or any other
first-class road. These facts, it appears TO us,
afford some grounds for the statement that
the road is to be first-class in every respect
and equipped with first class cars and ma
chinery. No one would object to this for in
stead of being a disadvantage, il would Sc
cure to the people of the section through
which it passes greater advantages ofthrough
connections in different directions than could
be afforded by through narrow gauge road.
Work upon the road in this direction has
not ceased, as rumored, but is going on in
quite lively manner. One of the working
gangs is within half mile of the Great Gun
powder, and as soon as tue line is staked off
on this side of the stream, other contractors
will set to work, In advance of the actual