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SteveS Offline
#1 Posted:
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On May 10, 1869 the first transcontinental railroad was completed ...

We don't travel much by train these days and seldom even think of the railroad as a transportation option, but at the time, this was a really big deal ... travel from Chicago to San Francisco could be done in days rather than weeks or even months ... guys like Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker and Collis Huntington became immensely rich as the result of building the western half and other RRs in the west ...
BuckyB93 Offline
#2 Posted:
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So how was the trip? Did you save your ticket stub in your scrap book?
TMCTLT Offline
#3 Posted:
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SteveS wrote:
On May 10, 1869 the first transcontinental railroad was completed ...

We don't travel much by train these days and seldom even think of the railroad as a transportation option, but at the time, this was a really big deal ... travel from Chicago to San Francisco could be done in days rather than weeks or even months ... guys like Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker and Collis Huntington became immensely rich as the result of building the western half and other RRs in the west ...



Not to mention the ability to get goods to consumers quicker
Yes.....all that work so we could bail on it for the most part only to fill our roadways with Semi tractors!!!!!!
DrafterX Offline
#4 Posted:
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nobody ever thinks all the dead Chinese guys tho... poor dead Chinese guys... Sad
SteveS Offline
#5 Posted:
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BuckyB93 wrote:
So how was the trip? Did you save your ticket stub in your scrap book?


Funny you should ask ... yes, I DID save it, but then it somehow disappeared along with my Harrison for President button back when he beat Cleveland ...
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#6 Posted:
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...........I go everywhere by train...work, church, vacations....so much cheaper than owning a car...
mikey1597 Offline
#7 Posted:
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FGM was there
frankj1 Offline
#8 Posted:
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DrafterX wrote:
nobody ever thinks all the dead Chinese guys tho... poor dead Chinese guys... Sad

you stole Delta's post
Whistlebritches Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 04-23-2006
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I heard Thomas Durant and Cullen Bohannon were the big winners
Hillbillyjosh770 Offline
#10 Posted:
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interesting. I like that. I vote Steve does a weekly history lesson.

I've seen the Biltmore. those guys made a killing before the turn of the century.
Does anyone know George Vanderbuilt II died of?

Now if I can talk one of you knuckleheads into posting my daily local weather I'd be set.
jjanecka Offline
#11 Posted:
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God bless the rails
corey sellers Offline
#12 Posted:
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High of 87
Winds out of the south 5 to 7 mph
10 % chance of precipitation
DrafterX Offline
#13 Posted:
Joined: 10-18-2005
Posts: 98,508
Mellow
kevinn2006 Offline
#14 Posted:
Joined: 05-08-2017
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I work in intermodal transportation ... look it up - The rails are still a HUGE part of this country.
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