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[[underlined]] Other Transportation Exhibits at the ^[[World's]] Columbian Exposition. [[/underlined]]

Never in the World's history have so many machines and implements of ^[[t]]ransportation, land and marine, been assembled, as were to be seen in Jackson Park [[strikethrough]] at the close of the fiscal year - June 30, [[/strikethrough]] ^[[during the summer of]] 1893. It is a gratifying sign that many of the great transportation companies that send objects to the World's Fair devote money and space to an historical exhibit. 

[[underlined]] Historical Railway Exhibits. [[/underlined]]

Among the ^[[exhibited]] American railway companies, in addition to the Pennsylvania Railroad exhibit, alluded to above, the most notable historical collection is that shown by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in which the history of the World's Railway is exemplified by an extensive and valuable series of fifty or more full-sized models^[[*]] and original locomotives, and a gallery of over two thousand drawings and paintings illustrating the development of the locomotive and permanent way during the two centuries since Sir Isaac Newton attempted to apply steam to locomotion on land.

The New York Central Railroad Company which also erected a special exhibit building, display a facsimile of the historic train drawn by the locomotive "De Witt Clinton" ^[[[[dagger]]]] on the Mohawk and Hudson
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^[[*]] Models on a smaller scale of several of the historical locomotives. of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company were presented by that Company to the U.S. National Museum in 1889. 
^[[[[dagger]]]] One of the original driving wheels of this locomotive forms a part of the transportation collection in the National Museum.