CHAPTER XII.

TRANSPORTATION BUILDING.

Wonders in the way of railway trains — An object lesson for railroad operatives — The mahogany train of the
Canadian Pacific Railway — The most costly and magnificent in the world — Its engine can haul ten full
passenger cars sixty miles an hour — A tremendous engine from the London & Northwestern Railway, of
England, and a handsome train — This locomotive can haul thirty of its coaches, each containing six pas-
sengers, seventy-five miles an hour — Its average time, including stops, fifty-three miles an hour — Steven-
son's Rocket on exhibit — Also the Albion and Samson , built in 1838 — Also the two first engines run over
the Old Colony road, in the thirties — Another old-timer, built in England in 1831, and last in service in
Mississippi in 1890 — It puffed and whistled sixty years, and once fell overboard and staid under water from
1868 until 1870 — More than fifty locomotives on exhibition, representing the Baldwin and other works —
Three from England, three from Germany and four from France — The Baldwin has an engine that has
made a mile in 39^ seconds, or 92 miles an hour — All of the Baldwin locomotives are jacked up so that
their engines may be seen in motion — Nicaragua canal relief map — Graphic illustration of that enterprise
— Not more than $100,000,000 required to construct it — Excavation already in progress on the Atlantic end
— Great exhibit of bicycles — Pneumatics of all sizes, degrees and conditions— The old-time bicycle prac- .
tically unexhibited — Safeties all the go — Pennsylvania and New York Central exhibit — Coaches, buggies and
baby carriages — Sledges, carretas and volantes — Marine architecture — Sedans, palenquins and cateches —
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