I would not admit knowing that useless guy. The family has personaly known 7
presidents starting with Washington. We never made any money out of it tho.
JA
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael & Linda Marmer
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} C&O Canal (train related)
John,
I was only kidding.
Okay, you knew Calvin Coolidge then. O!
Mike
From: John
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} C&O Canal (train related)
I feel old enough JA
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael & Linda Marmer
To: mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} C&O Canal (train related)
John,
That is great to hear you heard that statement before.
I think you knew Van Buren?
Just kidding.
Mike
From: John
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:10 PM
To: mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} C&O Canal (train related)
Am familiar with that statement. Van Buren liked SCALE rights of way. Not HI
RAIL.
One of my ancestors built Van Burens house. I think he got paid.
John Armstrong
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael & Linda Marmer
To: mailto:toytrains%40yahoogroups.com ; mailto:S-Trains%40yahoogroups.com ;
mailto:s-scale%40yahoogroups.com ; Steve Conard ; John Picur
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 7:49 PM
Subject: {S-Scale List} C&O Canal (train related)
I just got my latest C&O Canal newsletter and this little story appeared in
the newsletter.
I am going to type it out.
On Jan. 1, 1829, Governor of New York Martin Van Buren wrote this to
President Jackson: “The canal system of this country is being threatened by the
spread of a new form of transportation known as “railroads”. As you may well
know, railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour
by engines, which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar
and snort their way through the countryside. the Almighty certainly never
intended that people should travel at such a breakneck speed”. Though
oft-quoted, the letter I thought by many to be apocryphal. ( not authenticated)
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The above is sort of silly and funny, as the railroads did over come the
canals in the end.
Many of you know I am a big fan of the C&O canal, as I have hiked all 184
miles of it in the late 60s with the Boy Scouts and Linda and I bike on it just
about every weekend from April to November.
The speed limit on the canal for boats was 4 mph, as any faster, the ripples
from the boats would damage the clay covered canal beds.
I have read that RR employee’s would throw rocks to spook the mules pulling
the boats, as the boats carrying goods, mostly coal was competition.
I have read a book last year called Railroad Triumph which states that the
RRs where coming but due to many canals being built in the early 1800s, there
was a need for faster movement of goods and people, so the canals actually got
RR design going sooner.
The Canal went into bankruptcy in the 1880s as the B&O RR purchased the
canal. The Canal closed in 1924. The B&O RR went bankrupt in 1936, as the
government got the canal then. It was made into a national park in 1971.
I am reading a book written on the C&O Canal, and President Jackson actually
cut off all US Government funding for the building of this canal. He saw no
need for it.
Mike Marmer
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