To: xsmommy; Texan5; tioga; secret garden; neverdem; MHGinTN; narses; SunkenCiv; patton; CholeraJoe; ...
Good to see it commemorated. I’ve always been more impressed with the speeds: 60+ mph - the Texan going reverse, the General facing forward - on those Civil War-era tracks and those rickety ties!
(I’m a volunteer in that museum for its machine shop, iron casting, molds and fabrication displays. )
20 posted on
04/12/2011 3:22:02 PM PDT by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Sigh. I remember the train to Albany, to get to gramma’s.
That was a long time ago.
Now, I would rather walk.
22 posted on
04/12/2011 3:44:07 PM PDT by
patton
(I am sure that I have done dumber thigns in my life, but at the moment, I am unable to recall them.)
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