Johnny,
Burn the book.
John
John WR Johnny, Burn the book. John
Johnny
Deggesty John WR Johnny, Burn the book. John Why? are you serious?
You might want to do it before Something wicked this way comes...
- Erik
Don't forget Baker, and what about Carprotti?
And who could forget the Gresley Conjugated Valve Gear used by three cylinder engines.
On the diesel side, consider the Maybach engines used in the Baldwin lightweights and the KM locomotives on Rio Grande and SP. Also, the Voith transmissions used in the KM and Alco diesel/hydraulic (torque converter, actually) locomotives.
Abso-#######-lutely.
John WR Johnny, Abso-#######-lutely. John
This book belonged to my father, who operated a locomotive crane in the ACL's Tampa shops.
As one John to another things are getting a bit deep around here. How deep you ask? The Frog says "Knee-deep"
The American who supervised the building of the first American steam locomotive built and operated in America was Horatio Allen, and the locomotive was named the Best Friend (of Charleston). It was built at the West Point Foundry in West Point, NY. It was shipped to Charleston, SC and operated for the first time on Christmas Day 1830. It was destroyed by a boiler explosion on June 17, 1831, reportedly after the Fireman grew tired of the safety valve popping off with a shrill whistle, whereupon he prevented it from opening again, earning himself the first railroad Darwin Award in the US.
William Huskisson MP for Liverpool in England garnered the first Darwin Award in the world for standing in the gauge of a double track mainline while talking to the Prime Minister of England who was seated in a train standing on the other track when a train approached on the track he was standing on. He was knocked down and one of his legs was severed and he bled to death before he could reach medical assistance, on September 15th, 1830.
I'm afraid that I did go beyond my usual reasonable limit in my response to you. Sometimes I get kind of upset by people who insist on the truth. I hope you can forgive me.
Perhaps I should quit while I'm only knee deep.
Thanks for your historical notes tragic though they are.
Shortly after the Camden and Amboy began running from South Amboy, New Jersey to Bordentown Cornelius Vanderbilt was riding the train on a trip to Philadelphia. There was a train wreck; it left Vanderbilt with a punctured lung, a painful injury, although he survived but he was put off railroads for a while. He did survive. Ultimately he decided to buy the New York and Harlem which operated a horse car line--Harlem was then the suburbs. He wanted to extend the horse car down to lower Manhattan. After doing this he came back to the steam cars which the NY&H ran beyond Harlem up into New York State. From there one thing led to another.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, despite his achievements, never qualified for the coveted Darwin award. He died of natural causes in the late 1870's I think. As he lay dying his children and grandchildren gathered around them and sung hymns including "I Am so Poor and Needy." He was the richest man in the country.
John WR Johnny, I'm afraid that I did go beyond my usual reasonable limit in my response to you. Sometimes I get kind of upset by people who insist on the truth. I hope you can forgive me. John
John WR Perhaps I should quit while I'm only knee deep. Thanks for your historical notes tragic though they are. Shortly after the Camden and Amboy began running from South Amboy, New Jersey to Bordentown Cornelius Vanderbilt was riding the train on a trip to Philadelphia. There was a train wreck; it left Vanderbilt with a punctured lung, a painful injury, although he survived but he was put off railroads for a while. He did survive. Ultimately he decided to buy the New York and Harlem which operated a horse car line--Harlem was then the suburbs. He wanted to extend the horse car down to lower Manhattan. After doing this he came back to the steam cars which the NY&H ran beyond Harlem up into New York State. From there one thing led to another. Cornelius Vanderbilt, despite his achievements, never qualified for the coveted Darwin award. He died of natural causes in the late 1870's I think. As he lay dying his children and grandchildren gathered around them and sung hymns including "I Am so Poor and Needy." He was the richest man in the country.
You may be right about Cornelius Vanderbilt. I've read some things about him but I don't recall reading about his religious beliefs or whether or not he had any.
Certainly his family was not left "poor and needy" in the material sense of the words.
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