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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
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crescences; ogee mouldingdome and sand box bases and tops; and aneater and more symmetrical arrangement oflink motion and reverse. These engines had16x22 inch cylinders, 60 inch driving wheels,and weighed about 24 tons. Their boilers were46; inches diameter of smallest ring, iron,and had 106 tubes, 21 inches diameter, aid 11feet 2^ inches long. The fire box heating surfacewas 86.5 square feet, tube heating surface 694.5square feet, total heating surface 784 squarefeet, and grate area 15 square feet. The writers recollection of the Mason enginesaccords with that of a veteran railroad man,who wrote to him: I well remember theseengines—the neatest, best proportioned, trim- 40 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE mest engines ever built by anybody, and they didtheir work all right, too. The type has nowpractically been superseded by the Atlantic, but in its time it was the best for general service,and no better exemplification has ever beenproduced than the Mason locomotive of 1857.
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O mTO a; 0. E E -5 c ~ o 3 S3 Mill O ^ .-= o I!. The Inter(n)ment of T, Von B-H. Hohenzollern,or the Cat Came Back Being the Actual Experience of a Fellow Employe By John Newman Terminal Timekeeper, Pier 22, N. R. RS. HOHENZOLLERN had a cat.There is nothing remarkable in thisstatement in itself, as in the neighbor-hood where Mr. Hohenzollern livesevery house contains a cat, or several, and thecommunity at large has a community of cats(also at large), so that the feline contingent isabout pro rata with the numan. But as a talehas to have a beginning as well as an end, andprofessional story tellers tell beginners that awritten story should start with something thatwill attract attention and follow up with some-thing that will hold it, this introduction is notso bad, for the name Hohenzollern, meaninghigh tolls or taxes (not to mention a number ofnew derivatives), is attracting a lot of attentionjuot now. To proceed: The name of the catwas Von Bethman-Hollweg, first name Tom,but fondly n

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