Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 · New York, Mentor Assoc. · leaf 9
f the main line from Detroit to Chicago. Massachusetts constructed the Hoosac Tunnel out of state funds, and about forty miles of connecting road. Illinois, Georgia, and North Carolina built short lines. None of these ventures prospered, and sooner or later all the state roads, with an exception or… … HOISTING A LOCOMOTIVE FROM A RIVERBED During the floods that swept the state of Ohio In March, 1913. a locomotive of the Pennsylvania Railroad broke through a bridge at East Liberty. In August two wrecking cranes of the railroad hoisted the engine from Its resting place on the bed of the river, and…
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