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Title: Routes and rates for summer tours via picturesque B. & O. 1892
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Railroads -- Freight Rates United States Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore, Md., Passenger department, Baltimore & Ohio railroad
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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TTTHE grandeur anil hcauU)\\ of the seenery alonn tli line of the Baltiniou anilOliio Railroad is world-renow n« dand has gained for tliis inute tlsobriquet of T^icluresque JO. (J U. In no distanee of ecjual lensith <in tliecontinent is there such vaiiety ot Mewsof mountain, valley and stream, andnowhere are the surroundings investedwith greater historic interest. One hashut to repeat the names of Potomac,Shenandoah, Harpers Ferry, to havecome trooping upon the memory alegion of events and incidents thatcrowd the pages of the later historyof the Republic. )Mucli of theregion traversed by the B. & O. LorTKS AXn RArES FOR SUMMER TOURS. Mib
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was, (luring the civil war, tlu batahle land over which the con tending hosts marched and fought alternately ptirstters and pursued At Harpers Ferry the old brick fort from which John Brown bade defiance to Virginias pride andpower, still stands in fviU view from the car windows as the train glideson to the graceful bridge that here spans the Potomac. It is at thispoint the historic river, disdaining impediment, has literally cleft itsway through the Blue Ridge Mountains, whoso rock-ribbed walls risesheer, for a thousand feet, from the waters edge. This is but one pic-ture. The entire line, from Washington to the Oliio River, is a livinggallery of views that prove a source of present delight to the traveler,and become a clierished recollection in after vears. 3GG BAi/riMORK d- OHIO umlhoad co.uiany HOTVYES ••• ••• ••• ii«tm«u«m«tttnmmitti«t«immtt«mmmntum:m«tujwtnimt IF VOU UUAHT « A VxuM, MxKvvxcTviwsii Sit 10.Valitahle Watici; Iowek,Choice (oai. Lands,Hunti

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