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Show WHEN RAILROADS WERE NEW Engineers in Charge of Construction Work Had Ideas That Now Seem a Little Peculiar. Light on strange Ideas of pioneer railroad balMarg was thrown by Kd-wunl Kd-wunl S. Joueit, generul solicitor of Hie L. & N., In a talk before the Rotary Ro-tary club at Louisville. "The Lexington-Frankfort line." aald he. "was built with longitudinal Htoue sills cupped with a strip of Iron, and the numerous curves, which you have all noted, are suld to have been purposely pur-posely Introduced upon the theory that iliey ucre an ud vantage In enabling the conductor the more euslly to see the rear of his train. The coaches were two-story affairs women and children below and men above and the motive power was mules to the top of the hill above Frankfort. The train was let down the hill Into the city upon an Incline operated by a Mulloiuiry engine. "You may be interested. In passing, to learn that with the exception of a few tulles near New Orleans, which antedated It about a week, this line from Lexington to Frankfort Is the oldest railroad In the United States south of the Ohio and west of the I Allcghcnlcs. n was chartered In 1830 I very early In rullrond history, when i we remember thut the first railroad j In the United States was built In 1820. and the first locomotive engine was operated In 1S2!." |
