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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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d operation* en projected ephenson loooi he Liverpool & Manchester Railway had t 1822, and it is true, that in 1825 tives were introduced on the Stockton & Darlington road, at that time an exclusively coal transporting tramway, and afterward its improvised stage coach passenger-carrying was only such as not interfering with mine output. Where there was the will the way would be found, was the courageous attitude of the virile Baltimoreans, and so assuming, they proceeded to get busy. Developments proved that in truth they hadn't the least idea of the way, its length, or in fact, any of such as would now be deemed adequate knowledge. They knew only in the abstract what they wanted and must have, and the concrete or actual, as it was demonstrated, would be met and overcome. Not one of the principal movers in the enterprise had ever seen the Ohio, and, it is not known that any of them had ever beheld the Alleghenies or been farther West than Frederick or Hagerstown. There wasn't a proposition extant in the world to surmount a mountain range with a railway, leaving out of question the promulgation of any theory of how it oould be done. The Liverpool & Manchester, "The Grand British Exper- imental Railway", as the offioial circulars put it, was being built through a country as level as the proverbial b a m floor, and as straight as the model housekeeper1s clothes line. no
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