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History! Funny thing happened in January 1942, the transcontinentals backed up with too much traffic, hurting the war effort only one month into the war. <br /> <br />Franklin Delano Roosevelt convened a meeting of the best brains of the railroads, and asked where can the Corps of Engineers build another railroad over the divide? Roosevelt liked to throw money at his problems, like the Inner Coastal Waterway from the tip of Texas to the east end of Maine... <br /> <br />The answer was, there wasn't any place. Over a thousand miles of divide, and no suitable place to build another railroad. An old man in his late years, had suggestions to improve sidings and yards. That man was the same man who was the second engineer of the Panama Canal who suggested a lock and dam canal. That man was the same man who built railroads in America, Mexico, the Philliipines, over the Andes, and the Trans Siberian Railway. There is a pass named after him in Washington state, and there is a statue of him at Marias Pass in Montana. Did I forget to mention that this same man discovered Marias Pass on a very cold many degrees below zero Christmas Eve? Who is this man.....probably the best railroad engineer in American history, by far shoulders above the rest.....A man Teddy Roosevelt called a bear.....
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