The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-16
BIG RAILROAD SHOW


is the huge Hall of Transportation,
respondent with white-pillared en-
frances and glistening domed tower,
is constructed of brick and steel and
stands in the center of 1000 acre
tract of land. In this building will be
placed exhibits showing the rogress
in the growth of locomotives, cars,
bridges, signaling devices. ties brakes,
and every other accessory. however
small. known to railroading.
Startling contrasts between the old
and the new will be brought out in
strong relief. The vast Improvement of
the present pipe-conducted, vapor-heat-
ing system in coaches over the crude
simplicity of the old wood-burning
stoves, the advance in the lighting of
cars from the use of candles stuck in
glass tubes to the present day of cleo
tricity, the development from the
clumsy mandrake to the use of COM
pressed air, the first sleeping-car and
the modern home wheels, will fur
nish some of the contrasts. In short,
all the railroad inventions that the
busy brain of man has been able to de-
wise in the past one hundred years will
be displayed, so that those who come
to see will understand.
Against the south wall of the Hall
of Transportation will be seen model
panorama, $50 feet in length, repre-
senting typical scenes along the Balti-
more and Ohio line from Baltimore to
Chicago. The houses and general ap-
pearance of Baltimore Town will be Of
the period of $780, while Chico"o will
picture the skyscrapers of TODAY. Ten
miniature working models of historic
and modern engines. electrically driven
and reproducing exactly the essential
features of the ORIGINALS. will be SPOT
ted at various noint" along the scenic
railway. Hauling coaches "~a FREIGHT
cars built to scale. these enpinns will
travel over miniature bridges Of wide
ly different types. from the old COW
cred wooden structures to the great
concrete and steel spans of the present
day.
On two big tracks in the cortor run
ming the entire length of the huilding,
will be arranged collection of thirty
one models and ORIGINALS covering in
brief the world history of steam driven
appliances. from tho protesque inv"r-
lions of Newton and Murdoch. dati"g
back to the eighteenth century, to the
famous Director General, wiz foot
wheels and a hirhast record'd speed
of more than 80 miles an honr-thn
premier engine at tho CHICAGO Worlds
Fair of 1898. A snecal foa+''"" among
these exhibits will be Pto'emy OK
cart. from Egypt on the Nile, used
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sacrifices to the gods.
Arranged along the walls near the
Harper's Ferry model will be a his
toric collection of pictures i'll trat's
in chronological order the evolution of
the locomotive on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad BEGINNING with the
ingenious four-wheoler sail-car in
vented by Evan Thomas, which ran
on wooden stringers and strap rails.
the picture will follow right on up
the line of progress to the heavy noun
tain type freight engines and the high
speed passenger locomotives now in
service.
A special section will be set aside
for the largest and finest historical
collection of railroad timenieces in the
United States. Over 200 railroad
watches, local and foreign, and
score of clocks with interesting bio
graphies, will be shown. The Balti-
more and Ohio was the first railroad
in the country to --'ablish strictly
supervised time service system, re-
quiring the services of 1877 certified
watch inspectors. Under this system
employees of the railroad must carry
watches that will not vary more than
80 seconds per week.