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Few regional railroads could match it either for solidity of capitalization and infrastructure or for excellence of management.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
when I hear the iron horse make the hills echo with his snort like thunder, shaking the earth with his feet, and breathing fire and smoke from his nostrils (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I don’t know), it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy to inhabit it.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Attached to the engine were five cars of FEC officials and invited dignitaries, the last being Flagler’s own sleeper, Car 91, which he had used to travel the rails since having it built in 1886. Car 91 was a copper-roofed pleasure palace of a railroad car, containing a Victorian-styled, wood-paneled lounge, sleeping berths for visitors, and a
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
on February 21, 1804, in the presence of Homfray, Crawshay, and a government engineer who had come to observe. Trevithick wrote to a friend the next day, “We carried ten tons of iron in five wagons, and seventy men riding on them the whole of the journey … The gentleman that bet 500 guineas against it rode the whole of the journey with us, and is
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