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Identifier: bookofroyalblue03balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s apparent; it is not necessary tocarry a time table. To this excellent arrangement of sched-ules, is added, a most superior train service;Iulhnan cars, either parlor or sleeping areon all trains; the coaches are of the verynewest types that come from the siiopsfrom year to year; the dining car serviceis the best in the country. To be al)le totravel in a ;)alatial train with no extra fare,other than the Pullman charge, a distanceof ititi miles in five hours with every lux-ury, is certainly the climax of modernrailroading. Last September the writer, after trans-acting business in Washington, was com-pelled to be in New York at K oclock I. M.of the same day. The train selected was the Roy.il Lim-ited, which left the Baltimore i\: Ohiostation .at Washington at :! oclock in theafternoon, afibrding the fastest schedule offive hours and enabling me to keep myappointment. It was one of those beautifulSeptember days and the impressions re-ceived were delightful. 12 THE ROYAL ROAD TO NEW YORK.
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THE liOYAL LIMITED.- Less than ten minutes after leaving thestation, the historic dueHng grounds ofRevolutionary times at Bladensburg, withthe old Calvert Mansion in the distance,was swiftly passed, and within the nexttwenty-five minutes Relay, Md., wasreached. There is something about Relay thatarouses interest, other than the very pic-turesque locality. Relay was so called because it was thefirst station out of Baltimore where horseswere changed way back in 18.30, when the Baltimore & Ohio, the first American rail-road, transjiorted its cars by horse-powerbefore the steam locomotive came into use. The great stone-arched railroad bridge,called the Thomas \iaduct, over thePatapsco River, which was built in 1829,still remains the oldest and grandest mon-ument of its kind in the world. In just forty-five minutes the train pulledinto Camden Station at Baltimore, and in-side often minutes more had passed throughthe great electric tunnel to Mount Royal,the up-town station.

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