Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine (1912) (14575414578)

Identifier: baltimoreohioemp03balt (find matches)
Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



Text Appearing Before Image:
The pictures on this and the three following pages were secured by the late Major J. G. Pangbornduring his trip through European and Asiatic Russia, while the Trans-Siberian Railroad was being con-structed. They are interesting at this time particularly because over this line vast quantities of warmunitions and supplies are now being transported across Siberia to the Russian battle front. To;): Junction oi Iluropt-an anj A-i:nic hrancln- ol Ti:in--Sil)(Ti;in R:iilr;il. Midillo loft: I^ippiHa; wjiti-r iroin I Ik* river Ainui in f:usi riibiria for use in m-arhy villam-. Middle right: Public weishinE: scales in oast Siberian viJiaRO. Bottom: ConvietM pr«>parinj; rijiht-of-way for constniriion of railroad.
Text Appearing After Image:
T( i)r. The services and music in the Russian (Greek Catholic) churches are the moat beautiful known. Small townsb(i:ist wonderful cathedrals, the one in this picture being in a city of no great size. Middle left: A Siberian taxicab. Middle centre: Cossacks and their wiry mounts. This type of soldier has been pushing irresistibly over the Caucasusand into Asiatic Turkey during the last month. Middle right: Chief of a Goldes (Mongolian) village. Bottom: We usually think of camels as creatures of the tropical deserts, but before the Trans-Siberian railroad wascompleted these sturdy beasts (the Bactrian or two-humped camels) were tlie motive power for tlie transportation offreight across the frozen steppes of Siberia. mm mw PP ■»^^fc