Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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Fl 2 filnttnzr Tight VOL. I OCTOBER, 1927 No. 1 Fair of the lron Horse T mid-morning on Friday, October 9, the staid and sleepy sta- tion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad presented an un- wonted appearance of gaiety and color. A throng of students from the Maryland State Normal School had wrought this trans- formation. The crowd, orderly, but conveying a sense of joy and ebullition of spirits, climbed aboard the special train, and slowly the ten cars, bearing 850 students, Faculty and Elementary School chil- dren, moved out of the station. A brief trip, and everybody poured out of the train and was swept into the hurrying press and current of other crowds, all seek- ing The Fair of the Iron Horse. Beyond' the gate, the crowd divided somewhat and broke into smaller groups, each intent on some special item of interest. The Traffic Building drew some, the Allied Services others, but most sought at once to join the queue proceeding around the interior of the Transportation Building. The latter showed in much detail the evo-lution of transportation on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between 1830 and 1927. Be- ginning with a scene in Baltimore in 1830, the exhibit proceeded, showing landscapes from Baltimore to Chicago, delineating the gen- eral character of the terrain, and giving a specially graphic model of Harper's Ferry. The development of bridges, signal systems, road- bed, and time service were all shown, but the most striking contrasts were shown in the engine models from Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb to the latest Canadian oil burning engine and the crack British engine King George V. Both the last named were outside the building on the special tracks, where enormous engines puffed idly like sleeping monsters. Here one went through a model of the oldest Pullman sleeping cars with its big woodboxes and stoves at each end of the car, and for contrast also passed through the latest type of de luxe trains for land cruises. Here, too, was a special train and lecture car for teaching 3 Ll lQE3Q:2iEitiiSfJ