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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED·EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nReproductions may not be made without permision trom Columbla University Libraries.                   \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \n35mREDUCTION RATIO:            10:/  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nDATE FILMED:                    4-4-97INITIALS:          B  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n# INTENTIONALSECOND\n\nEXPOSURES DUE TOPHOTOGRAPHS  \nC  \n## Foreword\n\nThe Baltimore and Ohio RailroadCompany was the first to obtain a char-ter under which a railroad was actu-ally started,constructed and completedfor the specific purpose of transport-ing passengers and freight,and is stilloperating,for nearly a century,underits original charter name.  \nIt was the first railroad to crossthe Allegheny Mountains;the first toissue a time-table;the first to employelectricity as a means of communication,having the first telegraph line in theworld,over which Professor S.F.B.  \nMorse sent his first message,andthe first to employ electricityas motive power.  \nNew grain elevator,new piers and general yard facilrties of the Ballmore and Ohio Raiload at Locust Point,Balimore, Md  \n# A Brief Historical Sketchof theBaltimore and Ohio Railroad Company\n\nTwo years from now the City of Baltimore will be inthe midst of one of the most unique and significant celebra-tions in which it has ever been the good fortune of a city toparticipate.What importance the year 1927 will have attachedto itin the general scheme of the universe or how it will godown to_posterity,of course,we do not know,but to theCity of Baltimore and its inhabitants,the State of Marylandand its residents,particularly,it will be the hundredth anni-Versary of the beginning of the Baltimore and Ohio RailroadCompany,whose charter was granted by the State of Maryland,February 28,1827.  \nThis grant was the beginning of railroading on theWestern Hemisphere,as_we understand and look upon rail-roading today,for the Baltimore and Ohio was chartered toconstruct two or more sets of rail from Baltimore to the OhioRiver.It was to be a carrier of both freight and passengersand to do and perform all that common carriers of todayare called upon to do—namely,a general transportation busi-ness.  \nFor this reason,the charter of the Baltimore and OhioRailroad marked the beginning of a new era in civilization.an era of expansion and development of a nation,the like ofwhich has never been witnessed in the history of the worldAttribute,if you please,this remarkable and astounding growthof a small group of provinces into the solidity and unificationof these United States,to all kinds of causes,but no other onething,no other force,no other agency,has contributed moreto its growth than steam railroad transportation.  \nThe 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