Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company: Covering a Tariff of Rates of Transportation "Main Stem" Of Said Road; In Obedience to an Order of the House of Delegates of the 28th Feb
Third, For the transportation of lime, limestone, and wood, especially, it is necessary to run a locomotive a considerable dis; tance without any load, in order to receive a freight and transport it for a few miles only. In this way an engine is frequently run eighteen miles without load, to receive and haul freight, often ia adequate, only from four to seven miles, and afterwards 'to return to the station without load.
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