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.
Granpap on my mother's side was said to be giant railroad man. I never met him but all 12 of his kids (my grandmother included) were something else and my 98 year old great grandmother whose death bed I visited when I was 14 was a real pistol, so I'm betting he was pretty awesome!
In fact, family lore has it, that when the crazy krauts on my father's side met the crazy krauts on my mother's side (grandpap's side) at their wedding reception, the fight lasted three days, the hall was destroyed and table legs were sticking out from the walls!
Just read an article about this a couple of weeks ago. Didn't pay real close attention but it said something about different gauges operating together in some areas back in the day, and they ran the smaller track inside the larger track to save money and time building new tracks. That's a bridge and the article stated that they almost always did this on bridges. Don't remember much else.
Granpap on my mother's side was said to be giant railroad man. I never met him but all 12 of his kids (my grandmother included) were something else and my 98 year old great grandmother whose death bed I visited when I was 14 was a real pistol, so I'm betting he was pretty awesome!
ReplyDeleteIn fact, family lore has it, that when the crazy krauts on my father's side met the crazy krauts on my mother's side (grandpap's side) at their wedding reception, the fight lasted three days, the hall was destroyed and table legs were sticking out from the walls!
Double gauge track? I wonder what that's all about.
ReplyDeleteJust read an article about this a couple of weeks ago. Didn't pay real close attention but it said something about different gauges operating together in some areas back in the day, and they ran the smaller track inside the larger track to save money and time building new tracks.
DeleteThat's a bridge and the article stated that they almost always did this on bridges.
Don't remember much else.