Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-05-22
The Change in the B. & O. Schedule.


Mr.. C. w. Galloway, manager of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railway, has written
to Mr.. R. c. Ringgold, of Shepherds
| town, in answer TO recent article IN
the Register criticising the change in
the B.. & o. schedule which eliminates
the stop of train No. at Shenandoah
Junction. Mr.. Galloway's letter is as
follows:
"My attention has been called TO an
article in the Shepherdstown Register,
under the caption, New Schedule on
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. believe
someone has misinformed the Register,
and believing that they want the facts,
il occurred to me to write you and sug
geSt that you point out to them where
they have erred in the criticism.
While No. has had its stops elimin-
ated, No. 81, which they refer to as a
local train, formerly leaving Washing
ton at 2.l0, now leaves at BIO, and
formerly consuming 2 hours minutes
to Shenandoah Junction, consumes l
hour AZ minutes. In other words,
this train leaves Washington one hour
later than formerly, within an hour
of the old departure of No. /, and ar
rives at Shenandoah Junction at 4.57,
only AZ minutes earlier than the old
time of No. |.
''To look at the situation in another
light, No. 1 consumed | hour A
minutes on the old schedule from
Washington TO Shenandoah Junction,
and No. 81 consumes hour AT
minutes, Just three minutes longer;
therefore, the statement referring to
train 81 as "a train doing the local work
between Washington and Cumberland
is misleading, because there are but
four stops on 81 between Washing
ton and Shenandoah Junction, one of
them being Harper's Ferry, so that is
also taken care Of. While the schedule
of No. has been changed, and its
time shortened, which is natural
thing TO do on through trains when it
is practicable, the territory served by
this train has been given an equiva-
lent service on No. 81, as imagine the
New York TO Shenandoah Junction
traffic is not a material factor. be-
lieve the editor wants his criticism
TO be fair, and based on facts, and | am
SldN W WHY lOu blIIo IShtSI, aiiG nav
you present it to him"
1t must be admitted that train No. 81
is very good one and is quite salts
factory to those who travel from Wash
ington to points east of Cumberland.
1t has good schedule and is quite COM
Portable, is not overcrowded and car
ries a chair car. But we still insist
that the people of this section and of
the territory served by the Norfolk &
Western Railway and the Valley
Branch of the B. & o. should not be
deprived of the convenience Of No.
/, which was easily the most popular
and convenient train they used. Even
from such rural sections as the Valley
Of Virginia, including the villages of
Shepherdstown, Charles Town, Berry
vile, Luray and Winchester, folks
go to Philadelphia and New York once
in a while, and they like to come back
comfortably and conveniently. They
could do this when No. | stopped at
Shenandoah Junction, and we called
the B. & o. blessed. But now we have
to take our chances in making con-
nections at Washington, and anxiety
for fear we will get left takes the
place of the calm contentment and
comfort we formerly enjoyed. We
contend that the accommodation of the
considerable number of persons from
this section who used No. | should
have as much weight as the compar-
atively few who are hurrying to st.
Louis. Under the old schedule No.
left New York at GAS a. m. and arrived
at ST. Louis at go p. m. the next day.
BY the present schedule it leaves New
York at 1870, snorts scornfully past
Shenandoah Junction, and still gets TO
ST. Louis on its old time, go p. m.
Who gains what we lose?
Some of the inconvenience that was
caused by this schedule will be eimin
ated by next Sunday, when Norfolk &
Western passenger train No. 27 will
be changed. This train now leaves
Hagerstown at ASS p. m. and passes
Shepherdstown at sgt. Beginning
Sunday it will leave Hagerstown at
4.05, fifty minutes earlier, and Shep-
herdstown about 4.40, connecting west
ward with No. 81. Its earlier arrival
at the Junction will be grateful to pas
sengers who come on B. & o. train No.
81, who are not fascinated by the
wait in the old shack used as station
at that place.