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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Railroads -- Employees -- Periodicals Railroads -- United States -- Employees
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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would have been neces-sary in the recent past had not the common practice of raising the track at intervals, when applying new ballast, broughtthe rails up to the level of the top of the parapet walls, and placed a heavy lateral thrust upon them, which they were notdesigned to carry. This caused the spandrel walls to move to such an extent that it became necessary to take them downto the elevation of the top of the arch, and in some places, still lower, and to reset them, backing them up with concreteunder the track a sufficient distance to take the thrust from the parapet walls. In handling this work, special care wastaken to replace the stones in their former position, in order to preserve the originality of the old bridge as far as possible. The structure was in serious danger of destruction during the Civil War, but by careful guarding it came throughunharmed, and judging from its present condition, it will continue to serve indefinitely. Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, October, ig2i
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