And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Looks like the one they made for excavating the Tamiami Trail, or Alligator Alley, from Naples to Miami.
ReplyDeleteI love the smell of burning fossil fuel in the morning.
ReplyDeleteMust be Mike Mulligan standing there with his hands on his hips. The original SteamPunk.
ReplyDeleteHeh, I was going to mention Mike and Mary Anne if no one else did:-)
DeleteI count eleven men standing around like it's some kind of social club. Dock their pay!
ReplyDeleteYes Mr. Gates!
DeleteProbably told them to stand still so the photo wouldn't be blurry (except for the smoke, which they couldn't make stand still).
DeleteOr a union shop.
ReplyDeleteSaw a dissamebled Marion Steam Shovel recently. On a semi, hopefully going to the rebuild shop and not the big furnace in the sky.
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