the Columbia and Washington electric railways both planned to build to Washington Boro and Millersville but this too never got beyond the planning stage. An extension was also talked of from Marietta to Maytown, but work was never started. A dif- ference in track gauges was about the only thing that

attack. A Congressional committee met to solve the prob- lem, which appeared to have two solutions. One was an entirely new "military" railroad, built at government expense, between New York and Washington and the other solution was what the representatives of the Reading and Columbia proposed when they