The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-25
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
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The Pennsylvania Railroad is one of the great
est systems of inter- State communication in the
world Long years of careful and judicious man.
agement has placed it in position above the
fear of competition from rival lines. It's system
connects two oceans, and reaches, with its tribu-
It's appointments are superb, and it has contrib
uted more than any other road to make travelling
q luxury. Accidents to its employees or patrons
are matters of rare occurrence.
1t would take columns to describe in brief its
many advantages. Every safeguard, every con-
GUS minds have devised aud cunning hands fab
ricated in railroad economy, are in practical OPP
Grafton on the Pennsylvania.
The inducements it holds out to summer tour
lists are unparalleled. 1t controls direct chain
of communication between Philadelphia and the
ocean resorts stretching from Sandy Hook at Cape
May Point. If the country is preferred, the
Pennsylvania road carries the traveller to all i'm
portant places in New York, New England and
Pennsylvania. Whether it is desired to summer
in quiet, sleepy, inland town, or within sight
of green fields and within sound of babbling
brooks in q quaint old-fashioned farmhouse, or
among the crags and cliffs of the Blue and Ale
gheny mountains, or on the health giving heights
of Mount Washington, this road carries you to
the chosen elysium quickly, cheaply, and safely.
All the famous health resorts tapped by it,
and whether the invalid be afflicted with consump-
ton or hay fever, the Pennsylvania will take him
to the place of cure. Its enterprise has built up
along its main lines of travel, within a few
minutes ride of Philadelphia, a hundred little
villages, and places that a few years ago were
primeval wastes now bright with life.
Villas and cottages, many of them as sumptuous-
ly elegant as the palaces of the Old Worlds no.
bes dot the hills, surrounded by carefully-k kept
grounds, that in summer make picture of in
comparable rural beauty. The people of no city
in the world have so many and diversified places
of summer resort, within easy riding distance, as
have the inhabitants of Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania road, by means of its many
fast trains which leave the station Broad and
Market, daily, makes it possible for the business
man to summer at the resort of his choice, with
out interfering in any way with his business in
the city. The roads facilities for the rapid and
careful handling and transportation of freight
incomparably fine. Its recent enterprise in put
ting on fast passenger trains, brings Chicago
within twenty three hours ride of Philadelphia,
and transports the traveller to Cincinnati in egh-
teen.
It's road-bed is rock baasted, its rails are
STEEL its rolling stock of the most approved pat
tern, and its employees trained to habits of
politeness and attention to the travelling public.
Parlor-c cars, dining-cars, and sleeping-cars are
attached, where necessary, to trains and it is
one of the wonders of modern railroad travelling
that the Pennsylvania, more than any other road,
has assisted in developing and perfecting, that
one can live on railroad train in as much ease
and comfort as in ones own home.
The Pennsylvania road never retrogrades. 1t
always moves upward and onward" and it uses
all legitimate means to compass this end. 1t is
jealous of the rights of its patrons, and quick to
defend them. The machinery of its management
runs like well-oiled piece of mechanism, smooth
ly and without jar or crash. Every new inven-
ton in railroad economy is carefully Investigated.
If its adoption is found to add to the comfort,
convenience, or safety of the travelling public, no
expense is spared to secure its control. Its vast
army of employees are trained to observe this one
precept "The comfort of our patrons above all
else." It's motto might justly be written thus:
d-safety-comfort."