Capitol Limited (B&O train) were particularly noted for their Chesapeake Bay cuisine, served in ornate cars with leaded glass windows, glass chandeliers, and colonial-style furnishings. The "Capitol Limited" derived much of its passenger traffic from businessmen and government officials traveling between Washington and the midwest. On September 1, 1926, the Pennsylvania Railroad terminated its contract with the B&O, which had permitted the latter to use the "Pennsy's" Hudson River tunnels and Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. Thereafter, the "Capitol Limited", along with all other B&O passenger trains to New York, operated over the Jersey Central's main line from the connection with the Reading in Bound
History of the board game Monopoly That same decade, the game became popular around the community of Reading, Pennsylvania. Another former student of Scott Nearing, Thomas Wilson, taught the game to his cousin, Charles Muhlenberg, around 1915–1916. The original patent on "The Landlord's Game" expired in 1921. By this time, the hand-made games became known simply as "Monopoly". Charles Muhlenberg and his wife, Wilma, taught the game to Wilma's brothers, Louis and Ferdinand "Fred" Thun, in the early 1920s. Simultaneous to these events, Magie moved back to Illinois, and married Andrew Phillips. She moved to the Washington, D.C. area with her husband by 1923, and re-patented