Lincoln Farewell Address readers go for world record
There was no rain as there was on this day in 1861; just cold. But several hundred Springfield citizens, as well as out-of-town visitors, filled the Great Western Depot and spilled onto Monroe Street today to re-enact the reading of president-elect Abraham Lincoln's Farewell Address to his neighbors. In the process, with the help of website participants, Lincoln organizers hoped to break the Guinness World Record for the most people reading aloud from the same document simultaneously.
1948-49 CHICAGO RAILROAD FAIR WHEELS A ROLLING MUSICAL HISTORY OF TRAINS 51854
This 1958 color film is from the “Wheels-A-Rolling” musical presentation that was part of the 1948 and 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair, at which 39 railroad companies participated. This was the high water mark for the passenger railroads, and just before the nation's airlines forced them to reconfigure their business model. The musical numbers showcase the life-size replicas of transportation and train development. The actors are dressed in corresponding costumes of the time period. This is a John Ott Picture and produced by Lenox Lohr. The show opens with Native Americans singing and walking across the stage with horses and carrying canoes. Father Marquette arrives at Lake Michigan and befriends the Indians. Their pathways become roadways in transporting early settlers (:35-2:28). The Rocket, designed by Robert Stephenson in 1829 in England, was the most advanced steam locomotive of its day (2:29-3:03). He followed that in 1831 with the John Bull (3:04-3:15). The 1831 West Point was the third steam locomotive constructed in the U.S. and built for the South Carolina Railroad (3:16-4:07). Also in 1831, the DeWitt Clinton was the fourth steam locomotive built for service in the U.S. for the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad to operate in New York (4:08-4:30). In 1829, the Tom Thumb was invented by Peter Cooper. It races against a horse-drawn carriage and loses (4:31-5:20). In 1832, the Atlantic was built by Phineas Davis for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (5:21-6:37). The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad used The Pioneer as its first locomotive in 1848 (6:38-7:29). Conestoga wagons take the stage, representing the gold rush west (7:30-9:34). A Wells Fargo stagecoach and the Pony Express are depicted on stage (9:35-10:50). 1861, Abraham Lincoln gives a speech in Springfield and leaves for Washington in a carriage. Civil War soldiers face each other and the wounded move across the stage. The Lincoln Special brings his body back to Springfield for burial (10:51-14:41). The men lay track for the first transcontinental railroad and Indians ride by on horses. On May 10, 1869, the final ceremonial spike of gold is driven, connection the rails of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads (14:42-16:41). A train for the Santa Fe Railroad passes. A group of Harvey Girls, who worked at AT&SF depots, sing (16:42-17:41). Western towns are represented with gun-shooting cowboys and Can-Can dancers (17:42-18:25). The Minnetonka steam locomotive was used by the Northern Pacific Railway (18:26-18:44). James J. Hill was CEO of the Great Northern Railway (18:45-19:01). The Milwaukee Road and Burlington Line bring immigrant farmers to the mid-west. They perform multiple dances onstage (19:02-21:52). The 1890s brought horse-drawn cars and cable cars (21:53-22:10). Horses pull a steam-powered pumper fire engine (22:12-22:25). Various antique bicycles ride on stage to watch a turn-of-the-century fashion show (22:26-23:15). The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad No. 999 was the first high-speed steam locomotive (23:16-23:27). Horseless carriages, vintage cars, and a vintage fire engine drive past a Charlie Chaplin act (23:28-25:22). A diesel electric locomotive represents the next advance. The actors create an outline of the United States (25:23-26:40).
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Jack Snyder On the B&O and Lincoln's Overlooked Role as the Railroad Visionary
Joseph P. Jack Snyder's new book: Baltimore and Ohio: The Passenger Trains and Services of America's First Common-Carrier Railroad, 1827-1971 [Hardcover]
TRANSCRIPT:Jack Snyder on the B&O and Lincoln's Forgotten Role as the Nation's Railroad visionary - During the Civil War, the railroad was the effective lifeline for federal operations between Baltimore and Washington and the Midwest. As it happened, it went through part of rebel territory in Virginia which caused enormous problems operationally and politically and militarily, not only for the railroad but also for the federal government. There were many raids on the railroad during the Civil War. One of the famous raiders was John Singleton Mosby who was a Confederate colonel. But he was not the only one, there was another man by the name of Harry Gilmor who operated in the area around Jefferson County and the West Virginia Panhandle; and these raids had the tendency to upset and interdict the operations of the railroad itself, and in some cases, the railroad was out of operation for a fairly hefty period of time.
One of the things that happened was that one of J.E.B. Stuart's lieutenants, a man by the name of Thomas R. Sharp, carried off Baltimore and Ohio locomotives from the city of Martinsburg and took them on wagons partly disassembled into the South where they were used on Southern railroads, about eighteen of them, I think, during the war. The B&O eventually got all of those locomotives back minus one at the end of the war, which had been destroyed. And, Thomas R. Sharp, who by then was a colonel, was actually hired by the B&O railroad to be its Master of Transportation at the end of the war. So, I guess that was a case of If they can beat you, hire them.
In any case, the railroad system of the United States had developed quite substantially before the war. By the time the Civil War started in 1861, the United States had more miles of railroad than all the other countries of the world combined, including those in Europe, and building railroads was the key to economic progress and improvement in the United States all during that period and subsequently.
The great planner of railroads during the Civil War was none other than the president, Abraham Lincoln, who had been a railroad lawyer in Springfield, Illinois before the war and had a grand vision for what needed to be done with the railroad in the United States. In 1862, he caused to be passed by Congress, the Pacific Railroad Act, which was later amended in 1864 and 1866. This act essentially authorized the extension of the railroad system of the United States throughout the western part of the United States which at that time had no railroads. So that, I think you could fairly say, that Abraham Lincoln was the chief planner and chief railroad visionary of his time. We've all heard a great deal about Lincoln's Administration and the freeing of the slaves and the conduct of the Civil War which was tremendously important; but few people seem to know how important Lincoln's vision for the expansion of the railroad system was and his vision included using the B&O railroad as the model - with its standard gauge of four-feet, eight-and-a-half inches - which was adopted in the Pacific Railroad Act. And, in fact, after the Civil War, all the railroads of the United States were re-gauged to that standard gauge even though many of them had begun as small local operations with very different gauges. So, in a sense, the B&O railroad was not only the major lifeline for the Union forces during the Civil War, operating between the East coast and the Midwest, but it was also the crucial model for the subsequent development of the national railroad system. Go to civilwarscholars.com for 700K of footnoted content and 12K images to accompany these videos made possible with the support of American Public University System more at Go to civilwarscholars.com for 700K of footnoted content and 12K images to accompany these videos made possible with the support of American Public University System more at
Was Abraham Lincoln Really a Racist? Did He Want to End Slavery? (2000)
Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery was one of the central issues in American history. About the book:
Lincoln often expressed moral opposition to slavery in public and private. Initially, he expected to bring about the eventual extinction of slavery by stopping its further expansion into any U.S. territory, and by proposing compensated emancipation (an offer Congress applied to Washington, D.C.) in his early presidency. Lincoln stood by the Republican Party platform in 1860, which stated that slavery should not be allowed to expand into any more territories. Lincoln believed that the extension of slavery in the South, Mid-west, and Western lands would inhibit free labor on free soil. In the 1850s, Lincoln was politically attacked as an abolitionist, but he did not consider himself one; he did not call for the immediate end of slavery everywhere in the U.S. until the proposed 13th Amendment became part of his party platform for the 1864 election.
In 1842, Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd, who was a daughter of a prominent slave-owning family from Kentucky. Lincoln returned to the political stage as a result of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and soon became a leading opponent of the Slaveocracy—that is the political power of the southern slave owners. The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, written to form the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, included language, designed by Stephen A. Douglas, which allowed the settlers to decide whether they would or would not accept slavery in their region. Lincoln saw this as a repeal of the 1820 Missouri Compromise which had outlawed slavery above the 36-30' parallel.
During the American Civil War, Lincoln used the war powers of the presidency to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free but exempted border states and those areas of slave states already under Union control. As a practical matter, at first the Proclamation could only be enforced to free those slaves who had already escaped to the Union side. However, millions more were freed as more areas of the South came under Union control. Lincoln pursued various plans to colonize free Blacks outside the United States, but none of these had a major effect.
Colonization of freed slaves was long seen by many as an answer to the problem of slavery. One of President Abraham Lincoln's policies during his administration was the voluntary colonization of African American Freedmen. Historians have debated and have remained divided over whether Lincoln's racial views (or merely his acceptance of the political reality) included that African Americans could not live in the same society as white Americans. Benjamin Butler stated that Lincoln in 1865 firmly denied that racial harmony would be possible in the United States. One view (known to scholars as the lullaby theory) is that Lincoln adopted colonization for Freedmen in order to make his Emancipation Proclamation politically acceptable. This view has been challenged with new evidence of the Lincoln administration's attempts to colonize freedmen in British Honduras after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863.
Known as the Great Emancipator, Lincoln was a complicated figure who wrestled with his own views on race. Lincoln's primary audience were white voters. During the 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln expressed his contemporary view that he believed whites were superior to blacks. Lincoln stated he was against miscegenation and blacks to serve as jurors. While President, as the American Civil War progressed, Lincoln advocated or implemented anti-racist policies including the Emancipation Proclamation and limited suffrage for African Americans. Former slave and leading abolitionist, Frederick Douglass once observed of Lincoln: In his company, I was never reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color. Douglass praised Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation; however, he stated that Lincoln was preeminently the white man’s President, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men. In his past, Lincoln lived in a middle-class, racially mixed neighborhood of Springfield, Illinois; one of his long-time neighbors, Jameson Jenkins (who may have been born a slave), had come from North Carolina and was publicly implicated in the 1850s as a Springfield conductor on the underground railroad, sheltering escaped slaves. In 1861, Lincoln called on Jenkins to give him a ride to the train depot, where Lincoln delivered his farewell address before leaving Springfield for the last time.
La Plata, Missouri USA - Virtual Railfan LIVE
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Springfield, Illinois | Wikipedia audio article
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Springfield, Illinois
00:02:08 1 History
00:03:51 1.1 Lincoln
00:03:59 1.1.1 Lincoln and politics
00:05:39 1.1.2 Population
00:07:20 1.1.3 Business
00:07:56 1.1.4 Religion
00:08:51 1.2 Civil War to 1900
00:10:21 1.3 20th century
00:10:30 1.3.1 Utopia
00:12:02 1.3.2 1908 race riot
00:13:02 1.4 21st century
00:13:40 2 Geography
00:14:31 2.1 Topography
00:17:03 2.2 Climate
00:19:17 3 Demographics
00:22:48 4 Cityscape
00:24:52 5 Culture
00:26:28 5.1 Literary tradition
00:27:12 5.2 Performing arts
00:28:16 5.3 Festivals
00:28:44 5.4 Tourism
00:31:55 5.5 Sports
00:35:10 5.6 Media
00:36:51 5.7 NOAA Weather Radio
00:37:52 6 Economy
00:39:30 6.1 Largest employers
00:39:46 7 Law and government
00:40:59 7.1 State government
00:43:27 7.2 Township
00:44:12 8 Education
00:46:09 9 Infrastructure
00:46:18 9.1 Health systems
00:47:20 9.2 Parks
00:48:51 9.3 Public utilities
00:49:24 9.4 Transportation
00:52:46 10 Notable people
00:52:55 11 Sister cities
00:53:23 12 See also
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Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County. The city's population of 116,250 as of the 2010 U.S. Census makes it the state's sixth most populous city. It is the largest city in central Illinois. As of 2013, the city's population was estimated to have increased to 117,006, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including his presidential library and museum, his home, and his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The capital is centrally located within the state. The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government entities include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
Where store returns are re-sold
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ch 10) The Other Civil War
chapter 10: A People's History (Of The United States) Howard Zinn.
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Chapter 10, The Other Civil War, covers the Anti-Rent movement, the Dorr Rebellion, the Flour Riot of 1837, the Molly Maguires, the rise of labor unions, the Lowell girls movement, and other class struggles centered around the various depressions of the 19th century. He describes the abuse of government power by corporations and the efforts by workers to resist those abuses.
Viral Plumber Who Dove Into Sewer to Fix Pipe Gets Free Jeans For a Year
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A photo of a hard-working plumber who went above and beyond the call of duty to fix a broken pipe is going viral. A homeowner snapped this shot of Jimmie Cox diving into murky water to try and fix the problem. Inside Edition connected Cox with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs, who commended the plumber for his dedication to his dirty job. A photo of a hard-working plumber who went above and beyond the call of duty to fix a broken pipe is going viral. A homeowner snapped this shot of Jimmie Cox diving into murky water to try and fix the problem. Inside Edition connected Cox with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs, who commended the plumber for his dedication to his dirty job. Cox was photographed with only his legs still dry and wearing Wrangler jeans, so the company is also giving him a year's supply of pants
How to Buy a Government Surplus Army Truck or Humvee - Dirt Every Day Extra
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Lincoln/Net, 1818-1861: The Campaign of the Century, 1859-1861
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Abraham Lincoln | Wikipedia audio article
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Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the U.S. through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln grew up on the western frontier in Kentucky and Indiana. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, in which he served for eight years. Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1846, Lincoln promoted rapid modernization of the economy and opposed the Mexican–American War.
After a single term, he returned to Illinois and resumed his successful law practice. Reentering politics in 1854, he became a leader in building the new Republican Party, which had a statewide majority in Illinois. As part of the 1858 campaign for US Senator from Illinois, Lincoln took part in a series of highly publicized debates with his opponent and rival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas; Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, but lost the race to Douglas.
In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state, though most delegates originally favored other candidates. Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South, he swept the North and was elected president in 1860.
Though there were attempts to bridge the differences between North and South, ultimately Lincoln's victory prompted seven southern slave states to secede from the United States and form the Confederate States of America before he moved into the White House. U.S. troops refused to leave Fort Sumter, a fort located in Charleston, South Carolina, after the secession of the Southern States.
The resulting Confederate attack on Fort Sumter inspired the North to rally behind the Union. As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican Party, Lincoln confronted Radical Republicans, who demanded harsher treatment of the South; War Democrats, who rallied a large faction of former opponents into his camp; anti-war Democrats (called Copperheads), who despised him; and irreconcilable secessionists, who plotted his assassination.
Lincoln fought back by pitting his opponents against each other, by carefully planned political patronage and by appealing to the American people with his powers of oratory. His Gettysburg Address became an iconic endorsement of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. He suspended habeas corpus, leading to the controversial Ex parte Merryman decision, and he averted potential British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair.
Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of generals, including his most successful general, Ulysses S. Grant. He made major decisions on Union war strategy, including a naval blockade that shut down the South's trade. As the war progressed, his complex moves toward ending slavery included the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; Lincoln used the U.S. Army to protect escaped slaves, encouraged the border states to outlaw slavery, and pushed through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which permanently outlawed slavery.
An astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, Lincoln reached out to the War Democrats and managed his own re-election campaign in the 1864 presidential election. Anticipating the war's conclusion, Lincoln pushed a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness.
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Lincoln's Ghost Train | Behind the Haunting #007
In this live video we will dive deep into the paranormal claims and reports about the ghostly apparition of the entire train that was used to transport President Abraham Lincoln from Washington D.C. back to Springfield, Ill. a.k.a. Lincolns Ghost Train (1865).
There are varying accounts of spectral funeral train sightings (Lincolns Ghost Train) of the old Union silently traveling through the night. Those who have seen the vision report that they have seen a train car draped in black housing a casket surrounded by mourners guarded by skeletal remains dressed in blue uniforms. The smoke stacks billow and bells clang but not of this time and place. A popular version of this story is one that has been retold many times stemming from a quote in the Albany Evening Times. This version is taken from The Pittsburgh Press (1978).
The train (Lincolns Ghost Train) always appeared in Albany on April 27th, the anniversary of its first passing. Track walkers and section hands would sit along the railroad tracks in the early evening of the fateful day and wait for the ghost train to come into view. At midnight—always at midnight—the engine would emerge from the darkness, moving silently down the track with black crepe flowing from its sides and emitting faintly audible sounds of funeral music.
The phantom train (Lincolns Ghost Train) would glide over a black carpet that appeared to cover the tracks, while spectral solders in blue uniforms, of the Union army trotted along side it. As the apparition moved down the tracks, it would fade from view over some phantom horizon
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum - August 2017 - Enjoying the cab ride and view
While on a recent visit to the B&O Railroad Museum I was enjoying a cab ride, no wonder it's great to be an engineer!
Wyoming: Cheyenne
Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of Wyoming.It was named for the American Indian Cheyenne nation, one of the most famous and prominent Great Plains tribes
As of the census of 2010, there were 59,467 people, 25,558 households, and 15,270 families residing in the city.
The Wyoming State Capitol was constructed between 1886 and 1890, with further improvements being completed in 1917.
Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross (November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977) was the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 and director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953. She was the first woman to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, and remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming.
The Union Pacific and BNSF railroads intersect in Cheyenne. The city is home to a BNSF railyard, as well as the Union Pacific's steam program.
The eight foot tall cowboy boots have been carefully painted by local artists to show Wyoming's and Cheyenne's history.
Cheyenne has the atmosphere of a frontier town. Cheyenne is the unmistakably cowboy country. Just as the Wrangler store trade mark slogan states::Long live the cowboy!
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Prehistoric Native Americans in Jo Daviess County
An Illinois History Expo Superior in 2009. The video is on burial mounds and effigy mounds near Galena and Hanover Illinois.
Roseville Rail Yard - The largest rail yard in the West Coast - California - DJI Phantom 3 Pro
So I got the bright idea of visiting a rail yard. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Roseville, California had the largest rail yard in the west coast. So I took my drone out, and about 2.5 batteries later I was stopped by 2 agents of the Department of Homeland Security. They were wearing plain clothes, but both carried firearms. They drove a unmarked white explorer. After a brief conversation, I was told not to film. I was told there are no laws affecting filming trains on the railway, but in a rail yard is monitored by DHS, and that I wasn't permitted so I left as soon as possible. This is the footage that I did capture. Remember to hit like and subscribe if you enjoyed this video.
Equipment Used:
DJI Visionary Intelligence, Elevated Imagination Phantom 4 Pro Plus Obsidian:
DJI Goggles Immersive FPV:
Case Club Waterproof DJI Phantom 4 Drone Wheeled Case:
Neewer 6 Pieces Filter Kit for DJI Phantom 4 Pro Quadcopter - UV, CPL, ND4, ND8, ND16 and ND32 Filter, Made of Optical Glass and Aluminum Alloy Frame and Waterproof:
DJI Mavic Pro Drone Quadcopter Fly More Combo:
Canon Rebel T6i Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm Lens + 32GB Memory + Canon 100ES DSLR Bag:
AmazonBasics 60-Inch Lightweight Tripod with Bag:
Editing Computer:
Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming Series Edition 7577 15.6-Inch Full HD Screen Laptop - Intel Quad-Core i7-7700HQ, 4TB SSD, 16GB DDR4 Memory, NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB Graphics, Windows 10
Cyberlink Director Suite 6 (editing):
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Hang Massive - Once Again 2011
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How to Use Google Earth to Find Killer Metal Detecting Sites
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