BALTIMORE, March 28.
We are at length enabled to make the following reliable announcement: The engine, cars and track layers report the track of the B & O. R. R. finished, with the exception of three miles midway between Martinsburg and Harper’s Ferry. All the numerous bridges are completed, and the last rail necessary to reconnect Baltimore, Washington and the Eastern cities with Wheeling and Parkersburg and the Western roads, will positively be laid on Sunday morning, 30th inst. The first regular through passenger train will leave Baltimore for Wheeling and Parkersburg on Wednesday, April 2d, at the latest.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 31, 1862, p. 2
No comments:
Post a Comment