300k Passengers on RR, Safety Improvements

The Baltimore Gazette states, that “It is now about three years and a half since the travelling on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road was commenced, and more than three hundred thousand passengers have since travelled on it, without a single instance of serious injury, to life or limb, having occurred to any one of them.” It adds, that “A late important improvement– which we find referred to in the last annual report of the President and Directors of that Company– by the introduction of two wrought iron bars into the outerrim of the wheel, by which– in case of its fracture– the parts will be held together, and the wheel sustained, at least, until time will be allowed to replace it– will give still further security to the travelling on this road, which, by the way, is daily increasing, and has already far surpassed any expectation that could have been formed at the commencement of the work, upon its present limited extent.”