Business: Royal Blue's Blues

Last spring, to celebrate its 110th year and simultaneously to symbolize the new era in railroading, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad launched a new streamliner named the "Royal Blue." Last week the Royal Blue was still swashbuckling on its New York-Washington run and the B. & O. system was still operating the 12,000 miles of track between Kansas City, Chicago, Pittsburgh and the Atlantic coast that have long made it a ranking U. S. road. But as 1937 expired it became evident that B. & O. would remember it not so much...

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