Identifier: guidetobaltimore00kingj (find matches)
Title: Guide to Baltimore & Ohio railroad
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: King, John T. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio railroad. (from old catalog)
Publisher: (Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Baltimore st. THOS. W. LE7ERI1TG a, SOITS, AXD DEALERS IX FIELD SEEDS AND SEED WHEAT, 55 Commerce Street, Baltimore,
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83 and turbulent torrents. The railroad hud been built around hermountams in a spiral route; her mountains were pierced, bored andtunnelled; she had yielded to the invincible engineer; had beentortured, pushed aside, ignored and laughed at in very conceivableway; but here at Cheat River, the engineer and his army of 3,000men, with their -row-bars, picks, shovels, and engines, halted, dis-mayed, disconcerted, and apparently overcome at last. They lookedwistfully, silently and inquisitively in ;ach others faces ; a council f war was held; in that council it was determined to Uake thatmountain. A harge was ordered, and with uplifted ax, shovel,pick and spade, on that army rushed, and the bowels of thatmountain were laid open, and the work of evisceration did notcease until the rays of light from the cast and west met in thenarrow, one mile in length, Kingwood Tunnel. Here naturegave up the ghost, dismayed, discomfited, and overwhelmed;from there to the hio River she ceased to annoy or pl

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