Fun fact: there’s like 100 miles where there are two sets of tracks right next to each other through Utah. There were two companies building it: one headed eastward and the other headed west. And they were contracted to be paid by the mile.
The civil war broke out and congress had its hands full for awhile so the companies just kept building hoping to make more money before congress decided to put the golden spike in Promentory
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“This land is my land. This land is your land” — probably not.
SavageGaze on
Well, there goes the neighborhood
octahexxer on
Hell on wheels tried to cover this great show
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Do folks in the US protest for the return of Native Americans lands as much as they do for Palestine?
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That’s life.
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The next day on that very track they delivered the booze. And that finished him.
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“This is gonna ruin the tour.”
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“
Maybe we are going away”
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Geronification
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He’s like, “and my ass got sore from riding a horse”.
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Sad times…
Ominous
“There goes the neighborhood.”
Progress isn’t always progress
Fun fact: there’s like 100 miles where there are two sets of tracks right next to each other through Utah. There were two companies building it: one headed eastward and the other headed west. And they were contracted to be paid by the mile.
The civil war broke out and congress had its hands full for awhile so the companies just kept building hoping to make more money before congress decided to put the golden spike in Promentory
“This land is my land. This land is your land” — probably not.
Well, there goes the neighborhood
Hell on wheels tried to cover this great show
Do folks in the US protest for the return of Native Americans lands as much as they do for Palestine?
That’s life.
The next day on that very track they delivered the booze. And that finished him.
“This is gonna ruin the tour.”
“
Maybe we are going away”
Geronification
He’s like, “and my ass got sore from riding a horse”.
The railroad wasn’t completed until 1869.