The Ohio Railroad Guide Illustrated Author:Edward Deering Mansfield Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Little Miami Rail Road. 5 will again return. The Railroad and the Steamboat have made man almost ubiquitous on this little earth, and his fondness for novelty... more » and change is gratified beyond the dreams of fancy. Where will this stop ? No where, till this earth is inhabited by one family, dwelling together in peace and unity. Before we start, let us look at this Depot. I have seen many fine depots, in the east and the west — some of solid, beautiful stone — but I have seen none more spacious or convenient than this. It is recently finished; and there will be need of all its accommodations, for the immense congregation of persons and things, gathering here from the numerous lines of railway, North and East. Already there are five or six hundred miles of Ohio Railroads, whose whole business with Cincinnati centres here, and the number is continually increasing. This building is 465 feet long, 90 feet wide, and 30 feet high. It is, as you see, built in the most solid manner, and beautifully arched. It covers just an acre of ground, and would contain ten thousand people. On the opposite side you will see another Depot, also very large. In these depots, and in the machine shop beyond, are included four or five acres of ground, nearly covered with buildings, and all absolutely necessary to accommodate the immense business of the Railway. 9 Before we start, let us recognize the localitiesaround the Depot. We are now just at the foot of Deer Creek, over which is the stone bridge you have just passed. This little stream is only two miles in length, originating on the top of the northern hills, and running down the ravine in which you see the Miami Canal, whose outlet is just below the bridge. The creek is now covered most of the way by a stone culvert. At the head of it, about a mil...« less