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Welcome to the grazing. Podcast for Robertson s

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Farmers C. My name is Clint. And I

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will be your host as we record live

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from our beautiful Springfield Tennessee location inside our

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podcast studio.

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Robertson C is a member own farm supply

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cooperative. You've can learn more about us on

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our website, your farmers coop dot com in

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addition to our Facebook and his instagram.

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Welcome back to the grazing podcast for Robertson

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and C Farmers coop.

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If you happen to live in Robertson County.

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If if you hadn't figured this out already

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if you weren't born and raised to Robertson

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County

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has a very rich history. If you go

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to each community, it has its own little

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story.

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In history to tell. And Rich top Tennessee

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is no different from that. In fact, Rich

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top,

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arguably

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may have some of the most

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history in the county...

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Especially when you're talking about trains.

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And the thing about, you know, history, a

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lot of times I've heard people say it's

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you know, maybe right underneath your nose and

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you never knew about it. Where your house,

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you might have old dinosaur bones right underneath

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your nose, and you might never know about

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it or Indian bones or air heads or

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something something's there. And if you happen to

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be driving from green to rich top,

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some of the richest history is literally right

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under your nose with the rich top train

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tunnel.

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And it's something a lot of people don't

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know about, and that's what we're gonna be

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talking about day on this podcast. So if

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you're interested in local history

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and trains,

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you are not gonna wanna, miss this because

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this is good stuff we're we're about to

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discuss. So we're talking to mister Tony Re,

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and,

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Tony, that

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We're we're here at the Stop train museum?

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Alright. Would you be your title here. Are

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you the curator or the founder? What what's

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what's your title here? I'm 1 of the

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founders of 2. Okay. But got... Have my

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hand in all of it. Okay. So... Well,

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And the first question,

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next question I'm gonna, and this may be

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the most important question I'll ask all day.

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Okay. So

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you're born and raised here.

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No. Where you... Were you born in east

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Nashville.

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Okay. And my wife,

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Lisa. Yeah Smiley Re.

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Is lifelong resident, which the smiley have been

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in up since 18 05I

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moved up here in 67

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and started from there. I thought you'd born

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and raised here. So where did you go

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to high school lane? I went to Green.

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I went there Green bar middle, which is

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or Green bar junior high which is a

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City Hall of Green,

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the old city hall, and where a public

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work says now. That's where our junior high

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was. But but mister miss Reese are your

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parents, they were originally from east Nashville.

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Yes. Okay I see I didn't know that.

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I'm. Although go down gideon road.

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Got 20 something acres and my mom still

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there. Yeah. Shall? I was under the impression.

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I... I had no why. That... Oh, that's

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why we need to sit down and... And

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and talk about this so you can... So

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you can scoop me on some of this

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stuff. Not what I've always wondered,

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the nickname you... You're known by community is

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we.

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Right? You're correct. And I remember asking my

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dad when I was young 1 time, because

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I heard he referring to you as well?

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I said, why the? Why is he Why

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does he have that name? And I don't

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ever remember him give me an explanation. He...

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I think he just said, I what he's

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always been known by, so I'm just at

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of sheer curiosity.

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Had you get that nickname? I'll make it

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a short story. Alright.

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Played junior bay ball up at Walt talk

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School. Excuse me. At Walt School.

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It's was 11:12 year old, and I was

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11 years old. I played Center field and

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it was a saturday.

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Bright day,

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my wife's uncle now,

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or

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being too, but he was our coach, John

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Love,

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hit me a ground, and he went right

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through my legs and why I do not

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know, but amongst other words was we.

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And that stuck.

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everybody, but the preacher in my mama would

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call me We. Isn't it funny just how...

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Just a

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1 second of a scenario like that can

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happen you get labeled to nickname that sticks

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with you the rest of your life. You

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know? You're longer. Well, I remember not asking

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that. And he didn't have an explanation. I

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said, I gotta ask him on. This would

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be an appropriate place to in time day.

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Serious.

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Yeah. Thanks a lot.

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So... And then you and you you met

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Lisa, Y'all got married. She was a smiley.

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Yes And the smiley has been here since

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18. Yes. O first ones. Yes. 1 of

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the first 1 of the founders. I think

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of... I've reached up, which he used to

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be called something else years ago.

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She's lived here all her life, went to.

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We went scoop med in school. And started

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dating in high school seniors, stuff like that.

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Graduating said me 7, got married and 78

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and it's just in history from there. Right?

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Got married...

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Ain't got married 78...

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Yes. It's 78.

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46 years. Oh what congratulate.

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Yeah. 46.

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April.

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You know, and most people know the smile,

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you know what the the Smiley pro.

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In the stand out there. And you know,

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I I didn't I knew the spouse had

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been here for a long time, but 18

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o 5. That's... Very good waste. Goodness Gracious.

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So they've seen the the transition of what

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it's become compared to what it, you know?

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Yeah. What it used to be. Yeah. But,

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you know, something that hadn't changed

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is,

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when we when we think about trains, you

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know, we got the the railroad that runs

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right through Rocks County.

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But there's a a fascinating

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feature here that

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a lot of people, especially people have moved

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here from somewhere else. They... They don't... They

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have no idea that we have a train

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tunnel here. Definitely. And it's not just any

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train tunnel. It's at 1 point in time,

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not long after it's it's...

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Construction I guess would be the best word.

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It was the

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longest

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freestanding tunnel in the world. Right. For a

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at least in the United States in the

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United States. United states. That's waste it's printed.

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And, you know, before that, before the the

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tunnel was

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dug out

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the railroad still came through here, but it

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was a tres going up the ridge?

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Right. Hence the name ridge time.

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What what was the catalyst that made somebody

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stop and say, hey, I think we're gonna

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need a tunnel here instead of what we

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got going on now. I think the final

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shawl they was going south toward gu towards

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National.

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They would always stop at the top of

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the reach

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and put another train on to help it

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break going down. This was in December,

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of 19 o 1,

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and they think that when it started down

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that the brakes were froze,

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it couldn't stop at all

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and there was a pretty good high tres

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down that way bridge,

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and I, I think it dropped a hundred

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and 37 foot a mile.

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And that's a pretty good drop for a

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train. And when the engine jumped track, got

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2 going too fast. It took everything else.

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3, railroad railroad workers died,

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on, they had horses on the train. Mh.

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And they said quite a few of them,

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died with it.

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That'd be a bad feeling. You know it?

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Oh my goodness. Had to be. Cow that

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happened. That was 19 o 1.

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And had to be later in the year

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19 o 2. They started to digging out

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the tunnel.

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So that was a pretty quick turnaround for

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to do that. So the the elevation change

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compared from where we're sitting now to the

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bottom of the ridge. How many that we

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know exactly a roughly,

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what kind of discrepancy there is?

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Outside our front door here to museum,

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up the road about a hundred feet is

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the air shaft for the tone.

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A dug it it's at the midway point,

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and you can see it off a gray

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road. It's a hundred and 89 and a

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half feet down to the to the rail

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from the top to the bottom.

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The the van out here. It's that deep.

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It's had no kid. Solid wrong.

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So I'm a pushing 200 foot deep. Yes.

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Golly. Kill. III was thinking it might be

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30 or 40 feet down there. It's it's

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hundred and 89 a half and actually, what

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makes this something is when it would Doug,

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started in 19 o 2.

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They started at each end North and South,

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and then started the center air shaft in

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the center, dug that down and started again

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north and south.

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So back in, you know, you don't have

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computers. You don't have drones. You don't... You

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know, you gotta guy with maybe a transit

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in pick and shovel dynamite.

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Stuff like it. And we're talking about

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not quite a mile or 9 tenths mile.

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If if... I remember, you know, Being on

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the interstate 1 time to have those mile

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markers. And when you pay attention to from

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1 mile marker to the next,

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It's a long way. Yes. And you're talking

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about 19 o 2.

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So they started at the same time though

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from the North and South and worked their

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way to the middle. Sure.

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And again, this is 19 o 2. There...

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Like you said, there's no computers.

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The technology. It's pretty primitive. You know, we're

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talking about

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labor, man labor.

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And, of course, they had mules back in

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and Yep. Team mules that kind of thing,

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but there wasn't bore those. There's there wasn't.

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News and horses and they backed in. I

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think we've... We're getting pictures made to put

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down here to museum where when they was

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working on the tunnel and their air shaft

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itself.

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That'll be... I'm waiting to see that when

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it blows up a little bit. But it

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only took

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3 years pretty much. Think the first train

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was November 6 of 95,

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when the first train went through it.

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Considering the fact they're doing all this by

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hand, that doesn't seem like that much time.

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To today

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we don't... Because we're talking about, you know,

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the tunnel of the height of it is

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a minimum. I think I read over there

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20

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22 feet.

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From the ground level, which it we call

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tracks

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to the to the highest point in which

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it opens out.

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So, yes. That was

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that was a feed in itself. It's rich

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really fascinating, but you gotta think they're going

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through. I would be Limestone or just when

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I say,

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When they're tunnel through that, obviously, with they're

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cutting through, they, it has to be taken

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out a little bit of time. And I

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guess they were just...

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You know, they back wagon in there with

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a mule and feel and take it out.

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Yeah. It's kinda hard to comprehend him. With

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these days. Yes. Because you see all the

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automation and the and the machines that go

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in and out. It it's...

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This is totally different. It's... It's amazing to

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me. I would've have but through... The fact

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it took him 3 years to do it.

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That just... That's a really quick turnaround. That'd

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have been much... If if somebody asked me

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I'd say, that took at least 10 years.

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You would think so? Do we know the

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amount of

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people that were employed?

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Not really. The the only thing that we

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found out is they've had a group of

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men,

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which is down from smelly produce on that

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heel side

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before you get the retaining wall where the...

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Mh. Tunnel comes out. They had a count

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down there. And they had 1 at the

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bottom which they called Baker Station heel. Mh.

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On the lower side and they had a

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count right here.

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With a air shaft

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camp. So... But and they said,

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it was a costly adventure, but nobody knows

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how many dad.

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They had gas explosions

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on the people

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that lived and out helped them out because

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they had

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a sas tree, and they used to got

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Sas

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the juice out of it and put it

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on their eyes and said he quit burning.

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So

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That's

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just what they say.

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You know the sad thing about that. We're

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losing all our sas fresh trees. If you

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noticed that? Got right. There's a black coming

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and killed them, which is that's sidebar. Know.

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Another conversation, but the fact that, you know,

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we had... You know, people that lived in

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the community rich top back then that offered

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aid people?

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You got... And I... You know, when I

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think a hard labor these days,

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course tobacco. You. You know? And there's not

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there's not even to tobacco a lift in

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the rich top green brick area. Sure. But,

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you know, my experience were... That's all, you

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know, man labor, now you got tractors more

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not to pull the wagon.

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But you talk about going into the side

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of a hill with a pick.

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In a shovel. That did... I'm assuming they

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had some dynamite did Say they did.

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1 of the pictures that we've seen I

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hope to get up here It looks like

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smoke coming out of the tunnel, like it

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hadn't been long since they blow debt,

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and... But I... That's what I'm hoping it

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is.

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But there's there's nobody tell us

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anymore that

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just leaving.

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It'd be fascinating to be able to go

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back in time.

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And just watch those guys. What? Because, you

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know, they didn't they didn't know any different.

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As far as hard work, that's just what

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they did. And they probably didn't get paid

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much.

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For back in that time? And we don't

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we don't know that information. We know. Don't

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have a... I don't think we have a

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sheet 1 or any kind of a pay

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scale Back thing. I might be thinking of,

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like, the Pacific railroad spanned the the whole,

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you know, United States. But for some reason,

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I was thinking somebody told me 1 time

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there was a lot of foreign labor used

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in the tunnel, like Asian labor. Well, actually,

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it's written where there was Greeks and Italians.

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Most whoever ever wanted a local job.

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Could do that too. They was looking for

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anybody they could get.

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But

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only thing we know from outsiders is Greeks

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and italians.

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Do we know as far as the what

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it finally cost from start to finish. Ever

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have I've seen a price on anything that

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was done on this tunnel

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besides the length and the height and what

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it called... What it... False man wise.

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Do we have information as far as... I'm

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sure, you know, the railroad itself had a

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stake in it, but was this something that

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the? That the state and the local governments

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had to sign on too for all this

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to get done? Or think so,

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actually,

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reason for the tunnel was a wreck in

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the first place, but before this what train

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was here

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before the civil war.

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And, morgan's Raiders, which we've got a plaque

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on a north end the tunnel,

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they would come in after the union came

404
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down and tried to overtake it and they...

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I don't how bigger group they were, but

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they would fight them off. And finally,

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union was so big. They overt took it

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went all way to Nashville national. For donaldson.

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And, but they would steel morgan Razor would

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come in and raid the place and then

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start tearing up track where they couldn't use

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it. Which goes back to the re enactment

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they have in enriched top every. Yeah. I

414
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spoke to the the the gentleman that put

415
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that on. He we actually talked on here

416
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and he was telling me there was

417
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the battle that actually took place where some

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union soldiers

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were killed by the railroad, and he said

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there's there's some graves over here now it's

421
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on private property?

422
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But back there behind that storage facility before

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you get to, you know, Lan Marsh on

424
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the left. Yeah. You tell me, there's, you

425
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know, there's union soldiers bay right there. And

426
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that's something that you drive past and every

427
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day, you have no idea. And a lot

428
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of people don't know that the the train

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when it comes by of museum, even though

430
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it's a road here.

431
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It connected on through and went through Lan

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property with now straight down his driveway. You

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still see the gravel that's turned over on

434
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the sides.

435
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However you should do. It's kinda to hold

436
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the retention water back. Right. And

437
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it pretty neat we're looking to. It's fascinating

438
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stuff, and it's just

439
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It's a shame we've never had a place

440
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dedicated to that history until now, which is

441
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where we're at. But I... I'm I'm curious.

442
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Do you recall the first time. I'm sure

443
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you're were probably a young man. When you

444
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first saw the tunnel?

445
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Well, when we was in has,

446
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appeared to air shaft, it used to be

447
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like a little old wood

448
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pitched roof with shingles on it and half

449
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rotten.

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We would ride bikes over here during the

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summer,

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and that's probably 3 miles away

453
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which didn't really mean nothing he didn't have

454
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nothing else to do in Spencer Williams.

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Would get on that we... You'd lay on

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top of the the holes in the roof

457
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and you could hear the train coming from

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Green, blow that horn.

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And when it come through

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that,

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the rain coming through not to rain, but

462
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anything dropping through the rocks, it would blow

463
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back up and pick you up, like, 4

464
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or 5 inches. Off the roof and you

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thought that was big time.

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And then you either the wait there for

467
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the next trainer or you on your bike

468
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and ride somewhere else. Spencer have shoes on.

469
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Well, when you y'all were doing that he's

470
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barefoot food everything. I gets my consistent then.

471
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Yes. Very consistent.

472
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We we would go down to the south

473
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end of the tunnel. Towards Gi and go

474
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back in that way. You used be a

475
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logan road really. Mh. And years later, it

476
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turned out. We'd go down through there with

477
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fire department when the train decides it track

478
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on fire. With the brush over brush. And,

479
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but we'd go through there,

480
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and it's a long way through it Walking,

481
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and you can't see your hand in front

482
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of your face.

483
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When you get in the dead center, you

484
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can see a pin

485
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for each end. Mh.

486
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But m days, 1 train would come through

487
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like, once every 3 4 wires, but now

488
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since the track been doubled,

489
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you don't dare do that no more. Because

490
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it comes back, like, 30 minutes to 45

491
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minutes, coming back through the other way.

492
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And how fast is there a speed limit

493
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as far as what they can run? I

494
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have no idea how that works, But do

495
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you think if they're if they're coming from

496
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the north to the south, obviously, they're going

497
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downhill going in that direction.

498
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When it comes that, it's gotta be cooking

499
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pretty good. At that point. It's it's...

500
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I don't think there's a speed limit. I'd

501
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have to talked somebody my railroad for that.

502
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Because there's no buildings, no nothing there, so

503
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after as they go they better they like.

504
00:17:17,835 --> 00:17:20,634
Yeah. I remember... Now, that login room of

505
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what you're talking about. So I remember I

506
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was probably

507
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9 years old. And it was the same

508
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thing, you know, with my dad, They used

509
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to... You're probably with him sometimes, y'all always

510
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used to go down there, But I I

511
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remember probably 9 years a week parked somewhere

512
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back there.

513
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What's... Is it baxter?

514
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Right behind City hall,

515
00:17:38,625 --> 00:17:40,705
shell station, post office just right behind you?

516
00:17:41,038 --> 00:17:42,470
We knew some folks that live back there,

517
00:17:42,629 --> 00:17:43,504
so we we

518
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took our horses back there. Mark the truck

519
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and trailer,

520
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and that logan road course, I guess... Is

521
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that private property? Yes. I don't know who

522
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owned at the time, but we were able

523
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to, you know, ride horses and it's, you

524
00:17:56,086 --> 00:17:57,532
know, the was in the fall time of

525
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year, So it was really beautiful. Things were

526
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changing.

527
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And that logan road, you know you kinda

528
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snake around the the hill down there to

529
00:18:03,807 --> 00:18:05,317
it. And like I, I was probably 9

530
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years old, and we

531
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found some sap and tie the horses off

532
00:18:08,751 --> 00:18:10,843
too and went down there. And

533
00:18:11,457 --> 00:18:13,685
I vividly remembered the first time I laid

534
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eyes on. Because back then, you know, that

535
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was we didn't have access to Internet and

536
00:18:17,847 --> 00:18:19,445
stuff now. So I never even seen a

537
00:18:19,445 --> 00:18:20,245
picture before. Okay?

538
00:18:21,124 --> 00:18:22,882
And when I first saw it, it was

539
00:18:22,882 --> 00:18:23,202
almost...

540
00:18:23,841 --> 00:18:24,880
It's almost eerie.

541
00:18:25,693 --> 00:18:28,106
When you see it. Because it's it's this

542
00:18:28,164 --> 00:18:29,142
this massive

543
00:18:29,917 --> 00:18:32,468
feat of engineering that was done back in

544
00:18:32,468 --> 00:18:34,238
19 o 2 that for what... And it's

545
00:18:34,238 --> 00:18:36,315
right there literally under your nose and you

546
00:18:36,315 --> 00:18:37,993
don't even know it's. Know it. And then

547
00:18:37,993 --> 00:18:39,431
you lay eyes on it, and it's

548
00:18:40,723 --> 00:18:42,949
It's kinda spooky when you first see it.

549
00:18:43,664 --> 00:18:45,731
You just kinda developed this reverence for it

550
00:18:45,731 --> 00:18:47,798
like, oh my goodness Some... Had no idea

551
00:18:47,798 --> 00:18:49,729
to. This was here and the fact that

552
00:18:50,277 --> 00:18:52,262
this was all hand dug.

553
00:18:52,897 --> 00:18:54,565
And you're talking about it... It's a structure

554
00:18:54,565 --> 00:18:56,868
that has to accommodate train. Yeah. So it's

555
00:18:56,868 --> 00:18:58,297
big, and I remember you know there's 2

556
00:18:58,297 --> 00:18:59,012
streams of water.

557
00:18:59,503 --> 00:19:00,771
Running down each side of the track.

558
00:19:01,564 --> 00:19:01,960
And

559
00:19:02,595 --> 00:19:04,735
I remember... I walked into it, the tunnel

560
00:19:04,735 --> 00:19:07,009
of little ways. And, like you said that

561
00:19:07,209 --> 00:19:08,722
pin drop of light at the other end,

562
00:19:08,881 --> 00:19:09,438
you can see it.

563
00:19:10,235 --> 00:19:10,553
And

564
00:19:11,668 --> 00:19:12,226
it's just...

565
00:19:12,942 --> 00:19:14,933
It's really something you just kinda develop a

566
00:19:14,933 --> 00:19:16,856
reverence for. It is. When you lay eyes

567
00:19:16,856 --> 00:19:19,159
own it. How much you feel small. If

568
00:19:19,159 --> 00:19:21,701
you ever dug a ditch or something like

569
00:19:21,701 --> 00:19:23,528
that, you respect the guys who done it

570
00:19:23,528 --> 00:19:24,798
because either side of the tunnel,

571
00:19:25,528 --> 00:19:28,389
he's got just it's still got rock walls

572
00:19:28,389 --> 00:19:29,900
that had to be blow out. Mh. And

573
00:19:29,900 --> 00:19:31,807
doug got 2 for that train. It's it's

574
00:19:31,807 --> 00:19:32,443
just amazing.

575
00:19:33,174 --> 00:19:34,610
The the streams a lot of it run

576
00:19:34,610 --> 00:19:36,286
down both So is that spring fade? Or

577
00:19:36,286 --> 00:19:38,840
is that just run off from however they

578
00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:39,579
did the

579
00:19:39,957 --> 00:19:41,723
excavation back the end? That water. So was

580
00:19:41,723 --> 00:19:42,834
where is that coming a little bit of

581
00:19:42,834 --> 00:19:43,945
both. A lot of comes out of that

582
00:19:43,945 --> 00:19:46,167
rock. Now the springs that come to there,

583
00:19:46,882 --> 00:19:47,699
this past

584
00:19:48,564 --> 00:19:50,423
was a month ago, we had that storm

585
00:19:50,562 --> 00:19:52,880
come through and good friend of ours, Lan.

586
00:19:53,439 --> 00:19:53,759
Morris,

587
00:19:54,478 --> 00:19:56,736
Pawn broke, washed out the o

588
00:19:57,609 --> 00:19:59,679
where the train bed was. Mh. I've I

589
00:19:59,679 --> 00:20:02,090
got video of where it hit the tracks

590
00:20:02,227 --> 00:20:04,138
own tracks. I think they had to shut

591
00:20:04,138 --> 00:20:05,651
down the re for a time. Didn't they?

592
00:20:06,064 --> 00:20:07,576
Like 2 foot deep, 2 or 3 foot

593
00:20:07,576 --> 00:20:09,089
deep, and they couldn't, and it was just

594
00:20:09,089 --> 00:20:10,363
pure just smooth.

595
00:20:11,238 --> 00:20:13,467
So that's that's the first I've ever seen

596
00:20:13,467 --> 00:20:13,627
that.

597
00:20:14,278 --> 00:20:15,631
And hopefully it won't say it normal.

598
00:20:16,505 --> 00:20:18,096
Got a thing. The amount of water we

599
00:20:18,096 --> 00:20:19,687
had to bust that dam on that pond.

600
00:20:19,925 --> 00:20:21,937
As as a lot of weight. That's been

601
00:20:22,311 --> 00:20:24,317
against it. Yeah. That's the old pond. And

602
00:20:24,397 --> 00:20:26,627
I think the either the Covert was stopped

603
00:20:26,627 --> 00:20:28,538
up where the drain land was. And then

604
00:20:28,538 --> 00:20:29,653
when he come over the top, it just

605
00:20:29,653 --> 00:20:30,609
eat out and took it out.

606
00:20:32,138 --> 00:20:33,336
It it's it's amazing.

607
00:20:34,054 --> 00:20:34,454
Show.

608
00:20:35,571 --> 00:20:37,807
You when when they were digging that thing.

609
00:20:38,365 --> 00:20:39,962
Obviously, you said they started the north and

610
00:20:39,962 --> 00:20:41,815
south and worked their way toward middle. Is

611
00:20:41,815 --> 00:20:43,575
there a is there any kind curvature 2

612
00:20:43,575 --> 00:20:44,554
or is it pretty

613
00:20:44,855 --> 00:20:46,214
pretty well straight in narrow.

614
00:20:48,054 --> 00:20:50,468
Actually, it's pretty straight. The coming out of

615
00:20:50,468 --> 00:20:52,545
goals for a little curve right before you

616
00:20:52,545 --> 00:20:53,184
go into it,

617
00:20:53,903 --> 00:20:55,661
and I reckon backing up the straight or

618
00:20:55,661 --> 00:20:57,673
the better. So they probably done all the

619
00:20:57,673 --> 00:20:58,173
curve

620
00:20:58,632 --> 00:21:00,790
before they got to it. I just wonder

621
00:21:00,790 --> 00:21:02,009
because you know, but

622
00:21:02,628 --> 00:21:04,546
if I started digging a hole, I'm gonna...

623
00:21:04,706 --> 00:21:06,318
By the time I end up getting finished.

624
00:21:06,477 --> 00:21:07,592
If I'm trying to go on a straight

625
00:21:07,592 --> 00:21:09,661
line, it's not gonna be straight for me.

626
00:21:10,298 --> 00:21:11,730
You gotta think them guys back then. I

627
00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:12,947
wonder what kind of

628
00:21:14,039 --> 00:21:15,812
communication they had to to

629
00:21:16,201 --> 00:21:18,103
stay on track like that in a straight

630
00:21:18,103 --> 00:21:20,243
line. I'd be fascinating to with be. Because,

631
00:21:20,402 --> 00:21:22,462
like, the halfway shaft is almost a half

632
00:21:22,462 --> 00:21:22,858
a mile,

633
00:21:23,588 --> 00:21:25,917
and then you're probably a hundred and

634
00:21:26,371 --> 00:21:30,267
at least 75 feet lower on the gu

635
00:21:30,267 --> 00:21:32,110
side to south side. So you really can't

636
00:21:32,110 --> 00:21:33,960
see nothing. So you wonder how they

637
00:21:34,572 --> 00:21:35,072
started

638
00:21:36,002 --> 00:21:37,988
and were shooting the same grade. When that...

639
00:21:38,306 --> 00:21:39,918
Like you just said, I haven't even

640
00:21:40,228 --> 00:21:42,139
that hadn't registered my brain. If, you know,

641
00:21:42,219 --> 00:21:44,050
if we're cutting a if we're cutting a

642
00:21:44,050 --> 00:21:45,564
tunnel inside of mountain, and we just wanna

643
00:21:45,564 --> 00:21:46,838
come out on the other side. We we

644
00:21:46,838 --> 00:21:48,032
don't have to worry about depth.

645
00:21:49,163 --> 00:21:50,757
Increasing or decrease, but with, like you just

646
00:21:50,757 --> 00:21:52,671
said, there's a grade they're going on. Yes.

647
00:21:53,229 --> 00:21:54,824
So it it seemed like it could it

648
00:21:54,824 --> 00:21:56,339
could've have been easy where they could overs

649
00:21:56,339 --> 00:21:57,296
shot or under shot.

650
00:21:58,109 --> 00:22:00,025
And it wouldn't have come out right. And

651
00:22:00,025 --> 00:22:02,180
they said just really the the elevation was

652
00:22:02,180 --> 00:22:03,777
right, but the side walls were like,

653
00:22:05,214 --> 00:22:06,970
2 to 4 inches difference was all.

654
00:22:08,177 --> 00:22:09,922
And for going a half a mile, digging

655
00:22:09,922 --> 00:22:12,143
4 different directions. That's pretty good. It really

656
00:22:12,143 --> 00:22:14,937
took some brilliant men back then. Yeah. To

657
00:22:14,937 --> 00:22:16,768
engineer that. And like we said free freestanding

658
00:22:16,768 --> 00:22:19,635
me... It... There's no structural support. It's just

659
00:22:19,715 --> 00:22:20,215
No

660
00:22:20,670 --> 00:22:22,661
no bricks. No blocks, No peers.

661
00:22:23,313 --> 00:22:25,461
Just solid wrong. Well, it seems like we

662
00:22:25,461 --> 00:22:27,450
have a pretty good amount of information about

663
00:22:27,450 --> 00:22:29,223
it. But is it still kind of elusive

664
00:22:29,439 --> 00:22:32,398
as far as find new information. Like, you

665
00:22:32,398 --> 00:22:33,750
know, we don't know what it costs. We

666
00:22:33,750 --> 00:22:34,489
don't know

667
00:22:35,023 --> 00:22:37,172
necessarily how many how many casualties there were.

668
00:22:38,221 --> 00:22:39,573
It seems like it's just kind of this

669
00:22:39,573 --> 00:22:41,562
thing that You just don't hear much about.

670
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:42,675
Right. Never have.

671
00:22:43,709 --> 00:22:44,528
I think there's

672
00:22:44,998 --> 00:22:47,231
There's a few tunnels you can, but so

673
00:22:47,231 --> 00:22:50,023
far everything we've been through with the county

674
00:22:50,023 --> 00:22:51,081
and the state

675
00:22:51,618 --> 00:22:53,772
of trying to find pictures or information. We've

676
00:22:53,772 --> 00:22:54,272
kinda

677
00:22:54,743 --> 00:22:55,380
to a block wall.

678
00:22:56,096 --> 00:22:57,846
And... You think part of that is maybe

679
00:22:57,846 --> 00:22:59,835
because... And I'm assuming on the north and

680
00:22:59,835 --> 00:23:01,688
south side, it's all private property.

681
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:03,680
So there's no way to for the public

682
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,440
to even access it if they wanted to.

683
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,680
At the time... Yeah. At the time, and

684
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,174
still not really. It's not

685
00:23:09,532 --> 00:23:12,339
I mean, we had a gentleman fall off

686
00:23:12,873 --> 00:23:14,623
in it, probably 3 weeks ago. I heard

687
00:23:14,623 --> 00:23:16,532
about that. It took a while to get

688
00:23:16,532 --> 00:23:17,168
him out.

689
00:23:17,979 --> 00:23:19,017
And we thought we were gonna have to

690
00:23:19,017 --> 00:23:21,571
lift him up with a rope and a

691
00:23:21,571 --> 00:23:21,890
stretcher,

692
00:23:22,688 --> 00:23:23,986
and we got a gentleman

693
00:23:24,524 --> 00:23:27,013
with Cs to get on the train at

694
00:23:27,013 --> 00:23:29,168
he's Martin Park with his... I mean, get

695
00:23:29,168 --> 00:23:31,563
on a track with his truck. Mh. And

696
00:23:31,563 --> 00:23:33,159
it worked for Cs x, and he got

697
00:23:33,159 --> 00:23:34,755
permission to go down and haul all out.

698
00:23:35,568 --> 00:23:37,323
Oh, that was... Did he fall off the

699
00:23:37,323 --> 00:23:39,317
retaining wall side. Actually, he was on the

700
00:23:39,317 --> 00:23:41,470
rich side in bar wood. And from right

701
00:23:41,470 --> 00:23:43,065
there at that point, it's about a 55

702
00:23:43,065 --> 00:23:43,464
foot drop.

703
00:23:45,946 --> 00:23:46,446
But

704
00:23:46,896 --> 00:23:49,273
that's why it was leash. But he but

705
00:23:49,273 --> 00:23:52,617
he he cover front. Show. It showed just

706
00:23:52,617 --> 00:23:54,442
took a while. I think it started, like

707
00:23:54,442 --> 00:23:56,426
the call come in like 09:15

708
00:23:56,426 --> 00:23:58,013
something, and I think we got through about

709
00:23:58,013 --> 00:24:00,924
12 or 12:30 at night. Mh. Trying to

710
00:24:01,124 --> 00:24:01,943
find him

711
00:24:02,319 --> 00:24:03,935
and figure out how to get him out

712
00:24:04,949 --> 00:24:07,579
without hurting anybody else. So... It that that's

713
00:24:07,579 --> 00:24:08,217
a treacherous.

714
00:24:08,868 --> 00:24:11,328
A treacherous ascent right there. Of course, all

715
00:24:11,328 --> 00:24:12,915
trains were shut down that whole amount of

716
00:24:12,915 --> 00:24:15,136
time. So we didn't not worry about that,

717
00:24:15,295 --> 00:24:16,406
but taking that much light.

718
00:24:17,453 --> 00:24:19,763
And come in actually from the north end

719
00:24:19,763 --> 00:24:21,537
to Louise Martin Park is probably

720
00:24:22,311 --> 00:24:22,949
a good mile.

721
00:24:23,904 --> 00:24:25,656
It should seem like it, but it probably

722
00:24:25,656 --> 00:24:25,816
is.

723
00:24:26,467 --> 00:24:28,217
And if you're walking on cracks or trying

724
00:24:28,217 --> 00:24:29,274
to carry your stretcher

725
00:24:29,728 --> 00:24:31,160
that'd being even worse. Well, I...

726
00:24:31,876 --> 00:24:33,626
Like I told you, we wrote horses to

727
00:24:33,626 --> 00:24:35,471
the the south end. Now when I was

728
00:24:35,471 --> 00:24:36,664
in high school, I senior year,

729
00:24:37,381 --> 00:24:39,291
I was a big group of us, went

730
00:24:39,291 --> 00:24:41,201
down to the north or halloween 9, in

731
00:24:41,201 --> 00:24:43,600
not kids. Okay? And we got down. There

732
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,688
in a train came through, and it

733
00:24:46,061 --> 00:24:48,204
it it kind of... Because it's 1 of

734
00:24:48,204 --> 00:24:50,764
those deals it's... We had this the structure

735
00:24:50,764 --> 00:24:52,522
here that nobody ever knows about and there's

736
00:24:52,522 --> 00:24:54,440
really no way to access it without tres.

737
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,278
And so people can't really do it. Right.

738
00:24:56,997 --> 00:24:58,675
And I... You know, I remember people just

739
00:24:58,675 --> 00:25:00,849
kinda being be biden, you know? Because it

740
00:25:00,849 --> 00:25:02,529
it this train were... It had to be

741
00:25:02,529 --> 00:25:02,849
running.

742
00:25:04,369 --> 00:25:05,809
I'd say at least 40 mile an hour.

743
00:25:06,049 --> 00:25:07,970
Probably. It was going it was going from

744
00:25:07,970 --> 00:25:10,376
north to south. And going into this giant

745
00:25:10,376 --> 00:25:12,844
hole cutting this rock, and it's just... It's

746
00:25:12,844 --> 00:25:13,662
kinda mesmerizing

747
00:25:14,436 --> 00:25:15,152
in some ways.

748
00:25:16,107 --> 00:25:16,720
It's just

749
00:25:17,238 --> 00:25:18,593
you just kinda like go back in time

750
00:25:18,593 --> 00:25:20,347
to see how they did it. Sit on

751
00:25:20,347 --> 00:25:20,847
the

752
00:25:21,544 --> 00:25:24,015
sit on the sidelines. It's it's humbling. It's

753
00:25:24,015 --> 00:25:25,392
really humbling. And it's just

754
00:25:25,943 --> 00:25:28,352
I guess there's no possible way because,

755
00:25:28,885 --> 00:25:30,793
you know, there's just no way to access

756
00:25:30,793 --> 00:25:33,258
it publicly. You'd have to have permission from

757
00:25:33,258 --> 00:25:33,735
somebody.

758
00:25:34,068 --> 00:25:35,657
I and I don't really want need anybody

759
00:25:35,657 --> 00:25:37,722
downer there. From a liability standpoint, just like

760
00:25:37,722 --> 00:25:39,231
what happened to that... That's right. A gym

761
00:25:39,231 --> 00:25:41,615
when you're talking about. If if somebody hadn't

762
00:25:41,615 --> 00:25:43,703
seen him actually step off there

763
00:25:44,252 --> 00:25:45,924
and he'd might still be down her day.

764
00:25:46,641 --> 00:25:48,552
I remember here the story. You I... It

765
00:25:48,552 --> 00:25:50,542
probably happened, but I remember my dad telling

766
00:25:50,542 --> 00:25:51,577
me when I was little boy.

767
00:25:52,389 --> 00:25:53,987
And, like you said that the train schedule

768
00:25:53,987 --> 00:25:55,505
was much different back then. You may have

769
00:25:55,505 --> 00:25:57,742
had 1 every 3 or 4 hours. I

770
00:25:57,742 --> 00:25:59,020
think what you said, but there was a

771
00:25:59,020 --> 00:25:59,520
girl

772
00:26:00,309 --> 00:26:01,974
rode or horse down, it was riding through

773
00:26:01,974 --> 00:26:04,035
tunnel, and a train ended up coming and

774
00:26:04,035 --> 00:26:04,907
it spooked the horse.

775
00:26:05,700 --> 00:26:07,127
And the train ended up hitting the horse.

776
00:26:07,539 --> 00:26:09,054
And she was able to... She was able

777
00:26:09,054 --> 00:26:10,510
to get off and get on the side

778
00:26:10,887 --> 00:26:13,915
up against the the tunnel itself, but there's

779
00:26:13,915 --> 00:26:16,477
not much room there. Not. It's when the

780
00:26:16,477 --> 00:26:18,169
train going through it, how much

781
00:26:18,622 --> 00:26:20,448
on from side to side, how much room

782
00:26:20,448 --> 00:26:22,275
are we talking about a couple feet if

783
00:26:22,275 --> 00:26:22,513
that?

784
00:26:23,149 --> 00:26:24,522
It actually maybe

785
00:26:26,979 --> 00:26:28,649
Most them because there's so much water on

786
00:26:28,649 --> 00:26:30,161
the side of the ditch Mh. In the

787
00:26:30,161 --> 00:26:31,592
tunnel. You stayed on the track.

788
00:26:32,643 --> 00:26:34,639
Or tried to, we never went through it

789
00:26:34,639 --> 00:26:36,316
when the train come through, But I've heard

790
00:26:36,316 --> 00:26:38,391
talk that when you got you... It didn't

791
00:26:38,391 --> 00:26:40,067
matter what kind of water was there. You

792
00:26:40,067 --> 00:26:41,286
hooked a side wall

793
00:26:41,599 --> 00:26:43,189
where that train won't suck you back home.

794
00:26:44,143 --> 00:26:44,643
And

795
00:26:45,574 --> 00:26:47,005
that... I don't know if it would be

796
00:26:47,005 --> 00:26:48,755
going forward or 50 or 60. I don't

797
00:26:48,755 --> 00:26:49,255
know

798
00:26:49,883 --> 00:26:51,637
Have you ever now, You walked halfway in,

799
00:26:51,717 --> 00:26:52,753
as you said at 1 point when you

800
00:26:52,753 --> 00:26:54,427
were younger? Oh, yeah. Well, we've been all

801
00:26:54,427 --> 00:26:56,101
the way through it and come back. But

802
00:26:56,101 --> 00:26:57,456
when you got to the halfway point,

803
00:26:58,108 --> 00:26:59,854
you put your hand up and couldn't block

804
00:26:59,854 --> 00:27:02,950
that little piece of eye and that all,

805
00:27:03,346 --> 00:27:04,775
you can hardly see it. You couldn't see

806
00:27:04,775 --> 00:27:05,092
your hand.

807
00:27:05,984 --> 00:27:07,744
Have you ever been on a train going

808
00:27:07,744 --> 00:27:10,384
through? Bad. That'd be interesting. Because you know

809
00:27:10,384 --> 00:27:10,464
what?

810
00:27:11,265 --> 00:27:13,345
I wondered if if Cs x did, they

811
00:27:13,345 --> 00:27:14,944
have to do, like, annual spec... I mean,

812
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,024
whatever there is to inspect. I don't know

813
00:27:17,024 --> 00:27:18,929
what you'd be going in looking for. At

814
00:27:18,929 --> 00:27:19,723
1 time, they...

815
00:27:20,755 --> 00:27:22,899
It's not a grander. It's a piece of

816
00:27:22,899 --> 00:27:23,614
equipment on a truck.

817
00:27:24,264 --> 00:27:26,730
And they'll go down through it and knock

818
00:27:26,730 --> 00:27:28,502
and chip off any loose rock

819
00:27:29,275 --> 00:27:30,627
that where it won't drop on the train.

820
00:27:31,279 --> 00:27:32,716
Right Of course when it was built, and

821
00:27:32,716 --> 00:27:33,913
that's when 1 of our pictures are gonna

822
00:27:33,913 --> 00:27:34,471
be up here.

823
00:27:35,110 --> 00:27:37,584
They had a, ray walker. And every time

824
00:27:37,584 --> 00:27:38,940
a train went through the track,

825
00:27:39,833 --> 00:27:41,985
a man had to hit had a fork

826
00:27:41,985 --> 00:27:42,144
stick,

827
00:27:43,021 --> 00:27:44,456
and he put it on them tracks and

828
00:27:44,456 --> 00:27:46,050
walk all the way to other end and

829
00:27:46,050 --> 00:27:47,246
wait for the next 1 to come in.

830
00:27:47,899 --> 00:27:49,654
That would make sure that 1 no big

831
00:27:49,654 --> 00:27:50,154
rocks

832
00:27:50,612 --> 00:27:52,368
strength. Because I'm sure that does happen from

833
00:27:52,368 --> 00:27:53,405
time to time. How you do.

834
00:27:54,283 --> 00:27:56,373
With a vibration above, but a hundred and

835
00:27:56,373 --> 00:27:57,910
80 something feet down. So

836
00:27:58,606 --> 00:28:00,361
that's pretty good be. Yeah, if a train

837
00:28:00,361 --> 00:28:02,195
comes through now, could you put your ear

838
00:28:02,195 --> 00:28:03,870
to the vent, Can you hear it underneath

839
00:28:03,870 --> 00:28:05,306
that or field? You can hear

840
00:28:06,752 --> 00:28:08,341
We... You can really hear it coming through

841
00:28:08,421 --> 00:28:10,565
Green, rolling at the Crawl,

842
00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:13,028
and then at the Louise Martin Park, which

843
00:28:13,028 --> 00:28:14,299
is the last 1. You can hear that.

844
00:28:14,458 --> 00:28:15,332
So you know it's coming.

845
00:28:16,221 --> 00:28:19,243
When we started this museum, a guy that

846
00:28:19,243 --> 00:28:21,333
helped us out that did the Van children

847
00:28:21,628 --> 00:28:23,957
museum... Van Children train

848
00:28:24,570 --> 00:28:25,388
at the hospital,

849
00:28:26,019 --> 00:28:27,779
he was up here. Kinda tells us what

850
00:28:27,779 --> 00:28:29,220
we need to do. And I said, well,

851
00:28:29,299 --> 00:28:30,819
here comes the train. You're gonna hear that.

852
00:28:31,380 --> 00:28:32,980
He said, well, where. I said, well, right

853
00:28:32,980 --> 00:28:34,748
there. So we had to walk over there

854
00:28:34,748 --> 00:28:35,943
and call. It's got a fence around it.

855
00:28:36,261 --> 00:28:37,615
And when it comes through, it's just a

856
00:28:37,615 --> 00:28:37,854
bush.

857
00:28:38,730 --> 00:28:41,118
And it'll slowly die down after that engine

858
00:28:41,118 --> 00:28:41,437
goes through.

859
00:28:42,089 --> 00:28:44,007
What was was the purpose of it back

860
00:28:44,007 --> 00:28:44,747
then for

861
00:28:45,206 --> 00:28:45,706
ventilation

862
00:28:46,085 --> 00:28:48,403
essentially? Yes. For smoke, because it was all

863
00:28:48,403 --> 00:28:50,241
steam. Right. And they said if it was

864
00:28:50,241 --> 00:28:52,886
a passenger train, all that cold dust would

865
00:28:52,886 --> 00:28:55,033
roll back in the cabins or rolling the

866
00:28:55,033 --> 00:28:55,272
cars.

867
00:28:55,908 --> 00:28:57,658
And everybody... When you come out, you... Bring

868
00:28:57,658 --> 00:28:59,429
you, you know, had sued all over.

869
00:29:00,549 --> 00:29:02,069
That probably didn't know too good.

870
00:29:03,990 --> 00:29:05,269
That was the reason that was given.

871
00:29:06,482 --> 00:29:07,759
How as far as the

872
00:29:08,558 --> 00:29:10,553
the dimensions zone? And how many feet by

873
00:29:10,553 --> 00:29:12,469
how, is it a perfect square or right

874
00:29:12,469 --> 00:29:13,826
rectangle? Or is it just a circular hole?

875
00:29:14,798 --> 00:29:17,578
Will say a 12 by 18, 16 somewhere

876
00:29:17,578 --> 00:29:17,816
in there.

877
00:29:18,769 --> 00:29:20,675
It looks bigger because you can't get really

878
00:29:20,675 --> 00:29:22,343
that close to it. Mh. He hence up.

879
00:29:23,390 --> 00:29:25,928
But it's... We... When we was lu, I

880
00:29:25,928 --> 00:29:27,618
remember looking down in it, and it's just

881
00:29:28,229 --> 00:29:29,419
slick all 4 sides.

882
00:29:30,370 --> 00:29:32,847
Wait. Just and it's a a hundred and

883
00:29:32,847 --> 00:29:34,857
almost... Hundred and 89 a half feet

884
00:29:35,390 --> 00:29:36,185
up to the track.

885
00:29:37,297 --> 00:29:39,958
So that's Pretty good be it. I going

886
00:29:40,173 --> 00:29:42,501
vertically down that in 19 o,

887
00:29:43,669 --> 00:29:45,338
what early 19 hundreds. Yes.

888
00:29:46,068 --> 00:29:47,737
It's... I can't really wrap my mind around

889
00:29:47,737 --> 00:29:49,803
it. You know, Just. There's the pictures that

890
00:29:49,803 --> 00:29:50,836
1 of them that we're hoping to get

891
00:29:50,836 --> 00:29:52,664
up here, it's got a

892
00:29:53,394 --> 00:29:55,063
They come... They call it a bucket that

893
00:29:55,063 --> 00:29:56,971
they lowered and put the gravel in as

894
00:29:56,971 --> 00:29:58,958
they were going down. And it's a pretty

895
00:29:58,958 --> 00:30:00,547
good structure, wood structure.

896
00:30:01,183 --> 00:30:02,080
It looked like

897
00:30:03,265 --> 00:30:06,047
like, 16 to 16 beans wood beans, and

898
00:30:06,047 --> 00:30:08,034
they're... They've just built something to horse that

899
00:30:08,034 --> 00:30:08,511
bucket up.

900
00:30:09,386 --> 00:30:09,886
And

901
00:30:10,594 --> 00:30:11,969
You wonder if that was news

902
00:30:12,742 --> 00:30:14,811
hauling it up or people pulling on ropes,

903
00:30:14,970 --> 00:30:16,482
but that's a lot of hauling. Oh, would

904
00:30:16,482 --> 00:30:18,328
be fascinating to go back. Yes, it will...

905
00:30:18,488 --> 00:30:20,242
Oh, my god... Are there... Do we know

906
00:30:20,242 --> 00:30:22,556
if there's any local folks that are, you

907
00:30:22,556 --> 00:30:24,789
know, still living that they're... You know, they're

908
00:30:24,789 --> 00:30:26,942
great great grand or the great grand daddy

909
00:30:26,942 --> 00:30:27,841
would have been

910
00:30:28,233 --> 00:30:30,727
involved with the construction of it. Not

911
00:30:31,184 --> 00:30:33,576
of. I got a dead law that remembers

912
00:30:33,576 --> 00:30:35,330
the assembly Hall, which is... Used to be

913
00:30:35,330 --> 00:30:36,527
right across the street from here.

914
00:30:37,817 --> 00:30:41,087
And his sisters remember some of that. But

915
00:30:41,087 --> 00:30:43,160
lot the old folks that do remember that.

916
00:30:43,878 --> 00:30:45,632
They're pretty much going. Oh, it's a Travis

917
00:30:45,632 --> 00:30:47,716
deal. You know it? Show... You wish you'd

918
00:30:47,716 --> 00:30:49,226
sit down with him with a camera and

919
00:30:49,226 --> 00:30:50,180
notebook. Yes.

920
00:30:50,736 --> 00:30:52,485
Yes. Took took the time to do it.

921
00:30:52,961 --> 00:30:53,200
Sure.

922
00:30:54,488 --> 00:30:56,561
Well, the good thing about it, what y'all

923
00:30:56,561 --> 00:30:58,315
got going on up here, You know, we

924
00:30:58,315 --> 00:31:00,706
have a... It's called the rich top train

925
00:31:00,706 --> 00:31:02,561
museum now. Right? And

926
00:31:03,114 --> 00:31:04,792
let I mean, you can't see it right

927
00:31:04,792 --> 00:31:06,949
now. This is just audio, but the amount

928
00:31:06,949 --> 00:31:08,867
of work and time that y'all have put

929
00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:09,527
into this

930
00:31:09,905 --> 00:31:10,405
is

931
00:31:11,115 --> 00:31:11,615
it's

932
00:31:12,145 --> 00:31:14,523
very impressive, which Been able to do here.

933
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,742
Now this has been... We're talking about... It's

934
00:31:16,742 --> 00:31:17,559
only open

935
00:31:18,501 --> 00:31:20,805
for the first charity of each month,

936
00:31:21,838 --> 00:31:25,198
1PM to 4PM. Mh. And we

937
00:31:25,508 --> 00:31:27,814
Our hope is get our paperwork right when

938
00:31:27,814 --> 00:31:29,643
school starts, we'll have

939
00:31:30,518 --> 00:31:32,426
field trips for any school that wants to.

940
00:31:32,585 --> 00:31:34,414
We've got a church coming in in July.

941
00:31:35,304 --> 00:31:38,090
Really anybody that's interested in trains. Won't see

942
00:31:38,090 --> 00:31:40,240
something a little different. This is it. Now,

943
00:31:40,558 --> 00:31:40,877
you're...

944
00:31:42,071 --> 00:31:43,919
I... Oh, you your pitch. It's a tony

945
00:31:43,919 --> 00:31:46,556
reason a founder slash director. How long have

946
00:31:46,556 --> 00:31:48,074
you had this in your mind that you've

947
00:31:48,074 --> 00:31:49,752
been wanting to do something like this? Well,

948
00:31:49,992 --> 00:31:52,805
we've had the lights out front. For almost

949
00:31:52,805 --> 00:31:54,644
20 years. Was gonna put them over to

950
00:31:54,724 --> 00:31:56,884
Wilson park, which is across the highway.

951
00:31:57,924 --> 00:31:59,924
But they wasn't really gonna suit us over

952
00:31:59,924 --> 00:32:02,013
there, so we've had them pretty much in

953
00:32:02,013 --> 00:32:02,330
storage.

954
00:32:03,362 --> 00:32:04,949
We moved them when somebody gets tired of

955
00:32:04,949 --> 00:32:06,616
having in our backyard. We moved them somewhere

956
00:32:06,616 --> 00:32:08,520
else. So we brought them over here. Hope

957
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:09,576
to have them working

958
00:32:09,964 --> 00:32:12,112
I hope a month. Mh. Or, hope sooner.

959
00:32:12,271 --> 00:32:12,430
But,

960
00:32:13,464 --> 00:32:14,419
it... It's been a while.

961
00:32:15,056 --> 00:32:16,806
Of course, we built this bill in 85.

962
00:32:17,045 --> 00:32:18,318
It was built as a fire.

963
00:32:19,128 --> 00:32:21,753
We moved out of it in 4001

964
00:32:21,753 --> 00:32:24,219
went to highway across from city hall just

965
00:32:24,219 --> 00:32:25,413
turned into a public works.

966
00:32:27,176 --> 00:32:28,924
After pub... After they got building up at

967
00:32:28,924 --> 00:32:29,560
the City Park,

968
00:32:30,195 --> 00:32:33,317
this time to be a junk, place, storage

969
00:32:33,930 --> 00:32:34,168
junk,

970
00:32:35,375 --> 00:32:37,122
so we... That's when we decided this time

971
00:32:37,122 --> 00:32:39,108
to do something for building got worse off.

972
00:32:40,221 --> 00:32:42,286
So we started and probably,

973
00:32:43,493 --> 00:32:46,274
20 the middle or end of 20 21,

974
00:32:47,467 --> 00:32:49,318
cleaning it out, which I took a while

975
00:32:49,454 --> 00:32:49,954
and

976
00:32:51,218 --> 00:32:52,972
the start of paint walls, paint and ceilings.

977
00:32:53,849 --> 00:32:55,842
Was it in bad shape when y'all when

978
00:32:55,842 --> 00:32:57,596
y'all finally got it cleaned down? Nothing has

979
00:32:57,596 --> 00:32:59,404
been done to it since pretty much we

980
00:32:59,524 --> 00:33:00,874
it was built in 19 85.

981
00:33:01,430 --> 00:33:02,940
Still had the same siding, which was,

982
00:33:04,210 --> 00:33:04,449
cream,

983
00:33:05,481 --> 00:33:05,981
faded

984
00:33:06,355 --> 00:33:09,548
same shingles up till probably January. It when

985
00:33:09,548 --> 00:33:10,902
a storm come through and put a bunch

986
00:33:10,902 --> 00:33:11,460
of holes in it.

987
00:33:12,256 --> 00:33:15,044
So that's a pretty good run on shingles.

988
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,774
But we had to get the doors adjusted

989
00:33:18,404 --> 00:33:19,680
we still got the whole fire hall rolled

990
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,153
up doors in it. We put 2 bathrooms

991
00:33:22,153 --> 00:33:22,392
in it.

992
00:33:24,226 --> 00:33:26,141
Painted it. But everything else is is pretty

993
00:33:26,141 --> 00:33:28,468
good shape. Oh, it it looks fantastic. It

994
00:33:28,468 --> 00:33:30,930
really does. Did did you find anything interesting

995
00:33:30,930 --> 00:33:32,996
when y'all are cleaning any old newspaper clipping.

996
00:33:33,234 --> 00:33:35,061
No. We did. Treasure or anything like that?

997
00:33:35,379 --> 00:33:36,411
I scale it. No.

998
00:33:37,856 --> 00:33:39,761
Nothing we can comment me All. Well, no.

999
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,619
It looks it looks really fantastic. I could...

1000
00:33:42,857 --> 00:33:44,683
I didn't... I... For some reason, I was

1001
00:33:44,683 --> 00:33:45,160
thinking this...

1002
00:33:46,127 --> 00:33:47,953
Was an old church at 1 point, but

1003
00:33:48,191 --> 00:33:49,858
Maybe I'm thinking about across the street over

1004
00:33:49,858 --> 00:33:51,684
there. It's, like, 3 doors down is highland

1005
00:33:51,843 --> 00:33:54,161
Chapel. That's what... I was think. That was

1006
00:33:54,161 --> 00:33:55,909
owned that property is owned by the railroad

1007
00:33:55,909 --> 00:33:57,975
and they agreed to let them, and I

1008
00:33:57,975 --> 00:34:00,439
won't say 19 o 1. Don't hoping me

1009
00:34:00,439 --> 00:34:03,083
that. They built a church or pulled the

1010
00:34:03,083 --> 00:34:04,917
church in there and it burnt, then they

1011
00:34:04,917 --> 00:34:07,548
built a church. I'm understanding. Right? Same around

1012
00:34:07,548 --> 00:34:08,106
same time.

1013
00:34:09,143 --> 00:34:12,266
And why that While they were building assembly

1014
00:34:12,266 --> 00:34:13,621
hall, which we have the picture of that

1015
00:34:13,621 --> 00:34:15,693
here, they would meet in there until the

1016
00:34:15,693 --> 00:34:17,606
church was finished. Mh. He went down there.

1017
00:34:19,213 --> 00:34:20,805
A lot of stuff here in the building,

1018
00:34:21,282 --> 00:34:22,874
we couldn't have done it without a lot

1019
00:34:22,874 --> 00:34:25,341
of donations. We got 1 wall is pretty

1020
00:34:25,341 --> 00:34:27,252
much Ryan Horton, which a good friend of

1021
00:34:27,252 --> 00:34:29,410
mine. From Nashville. He passed away.

1022
00:34:30,203 --> 00:34:31,259
His wife donated

1023
00:34:31,948 --> 00:34:33,614
pretty much a whole wall. You'll have come

1024
00:34:33,614 --> 00:34:33,852
see it.

1025
00:34:34,804 --> 00:34:36,968
1 train track which got 2 trains zone

1026
00:34:36,968 --> 00:34:39,045
come from Brent wood, a man woman give

1027
00:34:39,045 --> 00:34:40,903
it to us. They was going back to

1028
00:34:41,042 --> 00:34:42,560
moving back to New Jersey to be with

1029
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:43,060
her

1030
00:34:43,373 --> 00:34:45,521
grandkids, and she said he wasn't gonna take

1031
00:34:45,521 --> 00:34:45,680
it.

1032
00:34:46,396 --> 00:34:48,646
Our our other H o train

1033
00:34:49,737 --> 00:34:52,213
from Kevin Smiley, which used to live in

1034
00:34:52,213 --> 00:34:53,642
r up, lives in South Carolina.

1035
00:34:54,277 --> 00:34:56,023
So he put it. He called, said,

1036
00:34:56,659 --> 00:34:58,326
I'm ready to let somebody else play with

1037
00:34:58,326 --> 00:34:58,484
it.

1038
00:34:59,453 --> 00:35:01,603
Of course, he's grown man like me. Well,

1039
00:35:01,762 --> 00:35:03,833
he pretty on a you hall and holler

1040
00:35:03,833 --> 00:35:04,391
down the force.

1041
00:35:05,426 --> 00:35:07,497
So... And then the our biggest train, which

1042
00:35:07,497 --> 00:35:09,108
is, like, 12 by 16,

1043
00:35:09,747 --> 00:35:11,505
which has also got 2 trains on it.

1044
00:35:12,783 --> 00:35:14,780
We actually have 4 or 5 of us,

1045
00:35:15,672 --> 00:35:17,578
started from scratch, and then with a lot

1046
00:35:17,578 --> 00:35:18,213
of help from,

1047
00:35:19,722 --> 00:35:20,595
designers, welder,

1048
00:35:22,262 --> 00:35:22,659
carpenters,

1049
00:35:23,788 --> 00:35:25,619
we got that 1 done. And it's it's

1050
00:35:25,619 --> 00:35:27,770
worth scene. What, when you... You know, when

1051
00:35:27,770 --> 00:35:29,363
you y'all picked all the bill and it

1052
00:35:29,363 --> 00:35:30,717
was it was vacant at that point, and

1053
00:35:30,717 --> 00:35:32,151
you had this vision for it.

1054
00:35:32,723 --> 00:35:34,711
Is this kind of exactly what you had

1055
00:35:34,711 --> 00:35:35,608
mind or

1056
00:35:36,142 --> 00:35:37,733
did you not really expect to have all

1057
00:35:37,733 --> 00:35:38,130
because you got...

1058
00:35:38,925 --> 00:35:40,356
Let's see. I I I'm counting.

1059
00:35:41,328 --> 00:35:43,402
I guess it's 2 altogether, but the 2

1060
00:35:43,402 --> 00:35:45,557
in the center are connected with her... Well,

1061
00:35:45,796 --> 00:35:48,031
there's 3 separate tracks with 2 trains on

1062
00:35:48,031 --> 00:35:50,442
each. Okay. When each layout, A b and

1063
00:35:50,442 --> 00:35:51,401
c or whatever you call.

1064
00:35:52,519 --> 00:35:53,797
We just wanna to do some of this

1065
00:35:53,797 --> 00:35:55,635
building because the train used to stop.

1066
00:35:56,289 --> 00:35:58,607
Right in front of here in 19... Early

1067
00:35:58,607 --> 00:36:00,605
19 hundreds. As soon as the train got

1068
00:36:00,605 --> 00:36:02,523
built... Soon the tunnel got built 19 o

1069
00:36:02,523 --> 00:36:05,001
5. This took a lot out of city

1070
00:36:05,001 --> 00:36:05,740
reached rooftop

1071
00:36:06,213 --> 00:36:07,567
because nothing come on the top of the

1072
00:36:07,567 --> 00:36:09,158
ground. Everything went underneath it and it didn't

1073
00:36:09,158 --> 00:36:09,397
stop.

1074
00:36:10,352 --> 00:36:12,103
They stopped at the bottom of the ridge

1075
00:36:12,103 --> 00:36:13,058
on the Go side.

1076
00:36:13,949 --> 00:36:16,654
And that mail out 3 times a day.

1077
00:36:17,291 --> 00:36:18,962
So I take a. Was only 3 times

1078
00:36:18,962 --> 00:36:20,315
a day, a train would come through. I

1079
00:36:20,315 --> 00:36:22,239
do not know. And then they would haul

1080
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:23,034
it by mule,

1081
00:36:24,148 --> 00:36:26,375
horse buggy to the center of town where

1082
00:36:26,375 --> 00:36:27,330
holt cro stories,

1083
00:36:27,807 --> 00:36:29,897
and That's where the mail room and all

1084
00:36:29,897 --> 00:36:31,415
that would be and right there to red

1085
00:36:31,415 --> 00:36:31,575
like.

1086
00:36:32,374 --> 00:36:34,131
So it it changed the town when they

1087
00:36:34,131 --> 00:36:35,330
took the train away from the top.

1088
00:36:36,064 --> 00:36:37,822
Because this right here where the building sits,

1089
00:36:38,062 --> 00:36:40,380
used to be the middle of town. 2

1090
00:36:40,380 --> 00:36:40,699
stores.

1091
00:36:41,898 --> 00:36:43,576
If you going down towards highland chapel,

1092
00:36:44,215 --> 00:36:44,695
there,

1093
00:36:45,109 --> 00:36:47,344
They call them hotels, but we would call

1094
00:36:47,344 --> 00:36:48,063
them bid breakfast.

1095
00:36:48,702 --> 00:36:49,180
A lot of...

1096
00:36:49,978 --> 00:36:50,537
I will say,

1097
00:36:52,213 --> 00:36:54,702
millionaires or big money people. Would come up

1098
00:36:54,702 --> 00:36:56,478
here during the summer because we was higher

1099
00:36:56,615 --> 00:36:56,775
elevation.

1100
00:36:57,731 --> 00:36:58,369
H g Heel.

1101
00:37:00,043 --> 00:37:01,079
I was trying to think the other guy

1102
00:37:01,079 --> 00:37:02,767
at work for the railroad owned a house

1103
00:37:02,767 --> 00:37:04,302
up here. There's probably 10

1104
00:37:04,998 --> 00:37:07,467
that that big houses around here that they

1105
00:37:07,467 --> 00:37:08,901
owned, and they would come up for the

1106
00:37:08,901 --> 00:37:10,982
summer. It was a getaway for them. Yes.

1107
00:37:11,140 --> 00:37:13,364
And it was... They tried to train and

1108
00:37:13,364 --> 00:37:15,269
get off. And the big thing was they

1109
00:37:15,269 --> 00:37:16,881
say, you didn't get your afternoon.

1110
00:37:17,906 --> 00:37:19,577
Newspaper Nashville, you'd wait till you got off

1111
00:37:19,577 --> 00:37:21,884
the train and wrist up. Post office which

1112
00:37:21,884 --> 00:37:23,872
pick the mail up. Get you evening and

1113
00:37:23,872 --> 00:37:25,081
paper. You go home.

1114
00:37:26,914 --> 00:37:29,703
It's a different time altogether back then, what

1115
00:37:29,703 --> 00:37:32,908
it. It's fascinating know the... The concept, you

1116
00:37:32,908 --> 00:37:35,006
know, they they constructed this tunnel to,

1117
00:37:35,385 --> 00:37:36,445
you know, make life,

1118
00:37:36,904 --> 00:37:38,742
or safer for 1 for the rear, I

1119
00:37:38,742 --> 00:37:40,100
guess, that would be the main reason.

1120
00:37:40,834 --> 00:37:42,110
But once that occurred,

1121
00:37:42,748 --> 00:37:43,806
the town didn't

1122
00:37:44,184 --> 00:37:46,098
yeah I didn't necessarily died. I don't guess.

1123
00:37:46,338 --> 00:37:48,650
Maybe parts of it did, but it completely

1124
00:37:48,650 --> 00:37:49,927
altered the town to where

1125
00:37:50,898 --> 00:37:51,398
We

1126
00:37:52,252 --> 00:37:54,482
kind of lost the memory of it to

1127
00:37:54,482 --> 00:37:56,234
some degree or the history. If you don't

1128
00:37:56,234 --> 00:37:58,065
say the train, Like you say the train

1129
00:37:58,065 --> 00:37:58,862
going through Green.

1130
00:37:59,434 --> 00:38:01,183
And you can see the old part, you

1131
00:38:01,183 --> 00:38:03,012
know, behind allergies and all that's the old

1132
00:38:03,012 --> 00:38:04,443
buildings. You can see them, they look neat.

1133
00:38:04,603 --> 00:38:05,557
They've really done good.

1134
00:38:06,352 --> 00:38:07,624
But when you don't see a train come

1135
00:38:07,624 --> 00:38:09,237
through roost up, you don't think

1136
00:38:09,548 --> 00:38:11,141
and people today when you say, oh, the

1137
00:38:11,141 --> 00:38:13,212
other. There's a tunnel. Well, they don't use

1138
00:38:13,212 --> 00:38:14,566
it, and I said, yeah. They use it

1139
00:38:14,566 --> 00:38:15,920
every hour. Mh At least.

1140
00:38:16,716 --> 00:38:17,614
So it's

1141
00:38:18,722 --> 00:38:21,192
It it's something sake. It's just... It's... There's

1142
00:38:21,192 --> 00:38:23,104
nothing that you can visually see with your

1143
00:38:23,104 --> 00:38:24,936
eye that ties it back to that. So

1144
00:38:24,936 --> 00:38:27,188
that's why we have this here now, which

1145
00:38:27,818 --> 00:38:29,409
kudos to y'all for taking the time to

1146
00:38:29,409 --> 00:38:30,840
do this. You know you... I think you

1147
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,214
20 20 wrong

1148
00:38:33,146 --> 00:38:35,610
coronavirus. That's when y'all. It it started working

1149
00:38:35,610 --> 00:38:36,882
in in paperwork kinda,

1150
00:38:37,929 --> 00:38:38,429
cd

1151
00:38:38,881 --> 00:38:39,833
we took it to the board.

1152
00:38:41,023 --> 00:38:42,371
I forgot who was on board time it

1153
00:38:42,371 --> 00:38:43,958
don't matter, but they was in for it.

1154
00:38:45,959 --> 00:38:47,956
They put... We put, course, a new roof

1155
00:38:47,956 --> 00:38:48,995
on it or the weather,

1156
00:38:49,954 --> 00:38:52,271
because it was same roof since 85. Put

1157
00:38:52,271 --> 00:38:54,759
new siding on it. It was cream. That's

1158
00:38:54,759 --> 00:38:54,998
white.

1159
00:38:55,956 --> 00:38:57,949
We painted to roll up doors. It it

1160
00:38:57,949 --> 00:39:00,342
made it look. Even the neighbors around here

1161
00:39:00,342 --> 00:39:02,495
says, we couldn't believe how much better that

1162
00:39:02,495 --> 00:39:03,869
looked. I said, well, it needed didn't. And

1163
00:39:03,869 --> 00:39:05,869
they said, yes, it did. Oh, the amount

1164
00:39:05,869 --> 00:39:07,150
of work y'all done in the place. I

1165
00:39:07,150 --> 00:39:07,809
mean, it's

1166
00:39:08,190 --> 00:39:10,269
not even talking about the models themselves. I

1167
00:39:10,269 --> 00:39:12,364
mean, that's kinda hard how how wonderful they

1168
00:39:12,364 --> 00:39:14,125
are. It's hard to describe, but the building

1169
00:39:14,125 --> 00:39:17,085
itself. It's just it's really incredible the the

1170
00:39:17,085 --> 00:39:18,525
amount of work and time it's been put

1171
00:39:18,525 --> 00:39:20,777
in of this. So obviously, you know, you

1172
00:39:20,777 --> 00:39:21,256
walk in.

1173
00:39:22,215 --> 00:39:24,293
First thing you... Well, I don't know what

1174
00:39:24,293 --> 00:39:25,811
your eye gonna go. There's so much good

1175
00:39:25,811 --> 00:39:27,503
stuff to look at. It's it's kinda hard

1176
00:39:27,503 --> 00:39:29,178
to pick out, but the models themselves.

1177
00:39:30,375 --> 00:39:31,810
When I was looking at it, of course,

1178
00:39:32,289 --> 00:39:34,522
I always like... What around Christmas time, You

1179
00:39:34,522 --> 00:39:36,596
know, people lifetime they'll set out these little

1180
00:39:37,726 --> 00:39:39,320
I don't know... There's a word for These

1181
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,789
little villages, these little people around them in

1182
00:39:41,789 --> 00:39:43,223
my, you know, my mom always did that.

1183
00:39:43,701 --> 00:39:44,975
And as a kid, I would just stand

1184
00:39:44,975 --> 00:39:47,064
there for... I don't know how long a

1185
00:39:47,064 --> 00:39:49,961
long time, just your your imagination

1186
00:39:50,580 --> 00:39:52,338
kinda comes to life, and you start making

1187
00:39:52,338 --> 00:39:54,176
a story of what's going on here, What

1188
00:39:54,176 --> 00:39:55,556
are these people do? And

1189
00:39:56,109 --> 00:39:58,263
And these models y'all have set out.

1190
00:39:59,140 --> 00:40:01,055
I mean, it's really incredible to look at

1191
00:40:01,055 --> 00:40:02,273
because we have entire

1192
00:40:03,462 --> 00:40:06,164
businesses and communities and establishment. And some of

1193
00:40:06,164 --> 00:40:07,936
this is... A lot of it's been modeled

1194
00:40:07,993 --> 00:40:10,457
actually after rich top. Yes. Is and Green

1195
00:40:10,457 --> 00:40:12,697
bar. Very much. For some local landmarks here.

1196
00:40:12,936 --> 00:40:15,478
Y'all included these in the models and themselves,

1197
00:40:15,637 --> 00:40:17,941
which make it that much special I think.

1198
00:40:18,815 --> 00:40:19,315
But

1199
00:40:19,943 --> 00:40:20,841
you got a

1200
00:40:21,455 --> 00:40:23,070
part of it. You... There's a carnival

1201
00:40:23,525 --> 00:40:24,741
part you cut on

1202
00:40:25,435 --> 00:40:27,664
fair wheel, and Mango random and bumper cars,

1203
00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:30,384
and then you you're over there and hit

1204
00:40:30,384 --> 00:40:32,133
the button and you had 2 trains running,

1205
00:40:32,531 --> 00:40:35,019
and I could sat here for probably

1206
00:40:36,666 --> 00:40:36,984
shoot.

1207
00:40:39,704 --> 00:40:41,302
I could priced sat there for a good

1208
00:40:41,302 --> 00:40:44,259
30 minutes. Just let my imagination run wild,

1209
00:40:44,659 --> 00:40:47,136
watching that stuff. It's for a grown man,

1210
00:40:47,376 --> 00:40:49,543
it's kind of because obviously, this is a

1211
00:40:49,543 --> 00:40:52,407
hit with kids. Oh, yes. B. Very big.

1212
00:40:52,645 --> 00:40:54,713
But with with grown man too, like, we're

1213
00:40:54,713 --> 00:40:56,477
were talking for 3 you 40 to, you

1214
00:40:56,477 --> 00:40:58,621
know, 60 or whatever. They'll just come. Because

1215
00:40:58,621 --> 00:41:00,948
this... You know, model trains were

1216
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,069
for a certain generation of time,

1217
00:41:03,958 --> 00:41:05,634
little kit... It will grown men and Apple

1218
00:41:05,634 --> 00:41:07,069
when they're were little boys, they used to

1219
00:41:07,069 --> 00:41:08,744
collect stuff like this and build them. Most

1220
00:41:08,744 --> 00:41:09,143
of them did,

1221
00:41:10,020 --> 00:41:11,615
had the little ones that went around under

1222
00:41:11,695 --> 00:41:13,530
Christmas tree. Mh. Had just a circle.

1223
00:41:14,343 --> 00:41:15,162
And I think

1224
00:41:15,619 --> 00:41:17,236
Ryan the 1 got this wall

1225
00:41:17,614 --> 00:41:19,529
covered. That's what he had and his brothers,

1226
00:41:19,688 --> 00:41:22,014
and he kept it don't how long had

1227
00:41:22,014 --> 00:41:24,480
it but anyway, it's been that long and

1228
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:24,878
to me,

1229
00:41:25,594 --> 00:41:27,344
60 and 70 euros olds. That come here

1230
00:41:27,344 --> 00:41:29,510
and just lean over the rail and stare

1231
00:41:29,510 --> 00:41:31,047
at it. It's amazing

1232
00:41:31,584 --> 00:41:32,882
there 1 guy that,

1233
00:41:34,376 --> 00:41:35,971
he... I was... I tried to talk to

1234
00:41:35,971 --> 00:41:37,486
everybody. I can, but he was leaving and

1235
00:41:37,566 --> 00:41:39,494
I said, well, where you live close or

1236
00:41:39,494 --> 00:41:41,485
something, and he goes, yes, I live over

1237
00:41:41,485 --> 00:41:42,840
in borrow. I said, well I'm glad you

1238
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,672
come. He said, I've been here every time

1239
00:41:44,672 --> 00:41:46,505
you're open. This it's just amazing. I said

1240
00:41:46,505 --> 00:41:47,461
well, I'm glad to hear that.

1241
00:41:48,191 --> 00:41:50,492
I I think for me, and I'm I'm

1242
00:41:50,492 --> 00:41:51,761
sure a lot of men can test. It

1243
00:41:51,761 --> 00:41:54,379
just makes you... It it kinda brings back

1244
00:41:54,379 --> 00:41:56,698
the inner child and you like that. That

1245
00:41:56,698 --> 00:41:58,772
child like mentality of because, you know, you're

1246
00:41:58,772 --> 00:41:59,989
looking around and

1247
00:42:01,164 --> 00:42:02,441
it's hard for me to describe in words.

1248
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,036
Like, I'm sitting here looking at at the

1249
00:42:04,036 --> 00:42:05,711
models right now, and, you know, you've got

1250
00:42:05,711 --> 00:42:08,693
these little houses and trees, and there's a

1251
00:42:08,830 --> 00:42:10,739
there's a load of logs on 1 of

1252
00:42:10,739 --> 00:42:11,057
those

1253
00:42:11,614 --> 00:42:13,699
1 of those trains right there and the

1254
00:42:13,699 --> 00:42:16,260
little people everybody's smiling and happy and waving.

1255
00:42:16,420 --> 00:42:18,099
And it it just looks so in it

1256
00:42:18,099 --> 00:42:20,179
looks like I wanna shrink myself down and

1257
00:42:20,179 --> 00:42:21,714
go live with these people. You know what

1258
00:42:21,795 --> 00:42:23,875
I mean, It's kinda okay. It's kinda like

1259
00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:24,375
a

1260
00:42:24,835 --> 00:42:26,674
it's kinda like a form of dope. Kinda

1261
00:42:26,674 --> 00:42:28,914
like an escape from reality just sitting there

1262
00:42:28,914 --> 00:42:30,114
and looking at it. You know what I

1263
00:42:30,114 --> 00:42:32,210
mean? That's kinda how my mind associates with

1264
00:42:32,210 --> 00:42:33,969
it. You just kinda... It takes you back.

1265
00:42:34,289 --> 00:42:34,789
It's.

1266
00:42:35,650 --> 00:42:37,969
It kinda take it it it it helps

1267
00:42:37,969 --> 00:42:40,140
you forget for a second, How screwed up

1268
00:42:40,140 --> 00:42:42,055
it is out there by by looking at

1269
00:42:42,055 --> 00:42:42,135
the...

1270
00:42:43,012 --> 00:42:45,327
Just how Innocent it is. I guess is

1271
00:42:45,327 --> 00:42:45,566
word.

1272
00:42:46,456 --> 00:42:48,757
Just in ent. Did you did you have

1273
00:42:48,757 --> 00:42:49,812
any crow up.

1274
00:42:50,422 --> 00:42:51,850
Sure did. So this is all new to...

1275
00:42:52,009 --> 00:42:53,596
Is all new. When we start on this

1276
00:42:53,596 --> 00:42:54,284
main track

1277
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:56,790
I said there was 5 of us and

1278
00:42:56,790 --> 00:42:59,097
1, with 2 brothers. I think they had

1279
00:42:59,097 --> 00:43:00,766
a track that ran around a Christmas tree.

1280
00:43:01,483 --> 00:43:04,224
And their mama had to figurines or whatever

1281
00:43:04,756 --> 00:43:06,266
to put the buildings around it and that's

1282
00:43:06,266 --> 00:43:08,490
all they had. So when we started this

1283
00:43:08,490 --> 00:43:09,546
1, that's put

1284
00:43:10,173 --> 00:43:12,155
Well, we had 1 with Luke. I, well,

1285
00:43:12,631 --> 00:43:13,900
we'll have to go with that because we

1286
00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:15,009
didn't. And

1287
00:43:15,564 --> 00:43:17,150
I always said I couldn't afford 1. Y'all,

1288
00:43:17,308 --> 00:43:17,626
Rich kids.

1289
00:43:19,233 --> 00:43:21,167
But it sounds like you had a team

1290
00:43:21,543 --> 00:43:23,556
that, you know, they had knowledge

1291
00:43:23,932 --> 00:43:25,605
of how to put this together and they

1292
00:43:25,605 --> 00:43:28,011
were familiar with it. And 1 thing led

1293
00:43:28,011 --> 00:43:29,389
to another and,

1294
00:43:30,085 --> 00:43:32,340
you know, the the I... The

1295
00:43:32,717 --> 00:43:34,951
donations, you run strictly off donations I'm assuming.

1296
00:43:35,110 --> 00:43:37,515
Pretty much. For the... Now the city, City

1297
00:43:37,515 --> 00:43:40,136
does do pay for the electro bill. They

1298
00:43:40,136 --> 00:43:40,930
do the sewer bill.

1299
00:43:41,963 --> 00:43:43,075
We had a heat and air put in

1300
00:43:43,075 --> 00:43:44,742
it because it wasn't never any in here

1301
00:43:44,742 --> 00:43:46,092
when the building was built at 85.

1302
00:43:47,060 --> 00:43:48,885
So they they swallowed a debt,

1303
00:43:49,599 --> 00:43:50,099
and

1304
00:43:51,425 --> 00:43:53,250
that's where we're at. It and more so

1305
00:43:53,250 --> 00:43:54,758
just people volunteer their time.

1306
00:43:55,409 --> 00:43:57,404
This is all volunteer run. I'm a assuming

1307
00:43:57,484 --> 00:43:58,202
Oh yes. Definitely.

1308
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,916
In the amount of hours y'all have in

1309
00:44:00,916 --> 00:44:02,751
this place. I can't imagine what it is

1310
00:44:02,751 --> 00:44:05,003
because it's if if you haven't been up

1311
00:44:05,003 --> 00:44:08,199
here, it's it's very meticulously set up. I

1312
00:44:08,199 --> 00:44:09,099
mean, this was

1313
00:44:09,717 --> 00:44:11,156
this wasn't something y'all just came in here

1314
00:44:11,156 --> 00:44:13,168
on Saturday afternoons that. We're gonna them together

1315
00:44:13,168 --> 00:44:13,487
and that's it.

1316
00:44:14,444 --> 00:44:16,757
No. It went. Once. Once you...

1317
00:44:17,555 --> 00:44:19,628
So we're talking about December let this past

1318
00:44:19,788 --> 00:44:21,862
December, December the first when it first open.

1319
00:44:22,992 --> 00:44:24,663
How long did it take... Once you got

1320
00:44:24,663 --> 00:44:26,731
the building, you know, where you wanted it

1321
00:44:26,731 --> 00:44:29,038
to be? As far as the models and

1322
00:44:29,038 --> 00:44:31,026
themselves and the platforms they're sitting on? How

1323
00:44:31,026 --> 00:44:32,789
many know, did it take a year to

1324
00:44:32,789 --> 00:44:34,458
get it to that point to have everything

1325
00:44:34,458 --> 00:44:35,411
where you needed it? Or...

1326
00:44:37,476 --> 00:44:37,794
Well,

1327
00:44:38,350 --> 00:44:39,645
good question. We

1328
00:44:40,113 --> 00:44:41,145
It was done a little bit at a

1329
00:44:41,145 --> 00:44:43,925
time. I'm sure. At too. We would go

1330
00:44:43,925 --> 00:44:44,322
and get...

1331
00:44:45,513 --> 00:44:47,180
We went to Manchester to get the angle

1332
00:44:47,180 --> 00:44:48,610
iron to put her this main drag.

1333
00:44:49,738 --> 00:44:51,493
The guy give us a great deal because

1334
00:44:51,652 --> 00:44:52,690
I told him what we doing with it.

1335
00:44:53,327 --> 00:44:54,524
So 2 of us went down there on

1336
00:44:54,524 --> 00:44:56,278
the trader. Got it. And then,

1337
00:44:57,315 --> 00:45:00,514
Gentleman from ralph welding out rear road. He

1338
00:45:00,514 --> 00:45:01,704
coming in here and put that up for

1339
00:45:01,704 --> 00:45:01,783
us.

1340
00:45:03,131 --> 00:45:05,353
Actually, we... I told him the wrong heights

1341
00:45:05,353 --> 00:45:07,097
and stuff, so he came back and dropped

1342
00:45:07,097 --> 00:45:08,867
it force because kids couldn't see it.

1343
00:45:09,745 --> 00:45:12,560
My height is perfect. But Z62

1344
00:45:13,018 --> 00:45:14,775
is a little high for a free footer

1345
00:45:14,775 --> 00:45:16,052
to look at it. So he come back

1346
00:45:16,052 --> 00:45:17,824
in and dropped it down. Where it made

1347
00:45:17,824 --> 00:45:18,625
it normal.

1348
00:45:20,065 --> 00:45:22,065
Did you underestimate as far as...

1349
00:45:22,944 --> 00:45:24,304
Because I know I know we were talking

1350
00:45:24,304 --> 00:45:26,360
before this. So I guess December was was

1351
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:28,476
the first month it was open? Yes. Yeah,

1352
00:45:28,716 --> 00:45:30,713
obviously, you know, January to to where we

1353
00:45:30,713 --> 00:45:31,193
are now.

1354
00:45:32,471 --> 00:45:32,950
Did you...

1355
00:45:33,683 --> 00:45:35,434
Did you underestimate the amount of people that

1356
00:45:35,434 --> 00:45:37,741
you think you'd have come in during that

1357
00:45:37,741 --> 00:45:37,980
time?

1358
00:45:38,696 --> 00:45:39,014
Yes.

1359
00:45:39,572 --> 00:45:41,800
Actually, because as far as I knew, somebody

1360
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,809
put on Facebook. I don't really do that.

1361
00:45:44,210 --> 00:45:45,650
But they put it on the city sign

1362
00:45:45,650 --> 00:45:47,329
on Highway 41 in of city hall.

1363
00:45:48,609 --> 00:45:50,585
And besides words mouth, which

1364
00:45:52,144 --> 00:45:53,585
we had a gentleman last month,

1365
00:45:54,545 --> 00:45:55,905
stopped in here from Jolt,

1366
00:45:57,264 --> 00:45:58,885
and Seen it was the first saturday

1367
00:45:59,199 --> 00:46:01,196
he was on way to his grandkids ballgame

1368
00:46:01,196 --> 00:46:02,714
in White House. He said, I ain't up

1369
00:46:02,714 --> 00:46:03,992
at 30 minutes. I've been waiting y'all to

1370
00:46:03,992 --> 00:46:05,190
get open and when he came in,

1371
00:46:06,164 --> 00:46:07,919
He was amazed, and he said, you know,

1372
00:46:08,477 --> 00:46:10,014
I got a 35

1373
00:46:10,551 --> 00:46:13,901
piece train Carnival. Circus train like with elephants

1374
00:46:13,901 --> 00:46:16,387
lines, like you'd see Bar Bailey do, He

1375
00:46:16,387 --> 00:46:18,293
said, I'm gonna bring it down here. We

1376
00:46:18,293 --> 00:46:20,279
all run it. I said, okay. You bring

1377
00:46:20,279 --> 00:46:22,186
it to us. So that's that's kind of

1378
00:46:22,186 --> 00:46:22,742
people you get.

1379
00:46:23,791 --> 00:46:24,507
Which is great.

1380
00:46:25,621 --> 00:46:27,054
And I reckon a lot of word word

1381
00:46:27,054 --> 00:46:27,372
a mouth.

1382
00:46:28,168 --> 00:46:29,918
Well, I can imagine the people that come

1383
00:46:29,918 --> 00:46:30,610
in. It's

1384
00:46:31,048 --> 00:46:32,724
you know, that they're interested. I'm sure the

1385
00:46:32,724 --> 00:46:34,798
history of it. But a lot of them,

1386
00:46:34,958 --> 00:46:36,315
we know at some point in time their

1387
00:46:36,315 --> 00:46:38,070
life. They were... This was their hobby.

1388
00:46:38,642 --> 00:46:39,756
And they see what you got going on.

1389
00:46:39,915 --> 00:46:41,427
They're like, hey, you know, I've got I've

1390
00:46:41,427 --> 00:46:43,415
got this certain piece where I've got this

1391
00:46:43,415 --> 00:46:44,472
set, and then

1392
00:46:45,499 --> 00:46:47,497
it kinda snowball balls into, you know, this

1393
00:46:47,497 --> 00:46:49,335
is how you can you can keep growing.

1394
00:46:49,815 --> 00:46:51,733
Right. From new people coming in and, you

1395
00:46:51,733 --> 00:46:53,490
know, if they have something y'all are interested

1396
00:46:53,490 --> 00:46:53,650
in,

1397
00:46:54,543 --> 00:46:56,774
they can donate it, and you know, it

1398
00:46:56,774 --> 00:46:59,026
just keeps growing from there. We're getting... When

1399
00:46:59,164 --> 00:47:00,836
when you come in front doors there's a

1400
00:47:00,836 --> 00:47:02,669
place you can sign up if you want

1401
00:47:02,669 --> 00:47:04,277
to. You don't have to. It's a...

1402
00:47:05,155 --> 00:47:06,910
Just a notebook that you can put your

1403
00:47:06,910 --> 00:47:09,861
email on. We're trying... Again, I'm gonna email

1404
00:47:09,861 --> 00:47:11,934
person type. So somebody younger,

1405
00:47:12,493 --> 00:47:13,131
they can type.

1406
00:47:14,583 --> 00:47:16,339
They're gonna put that in. And if you

1407
00:47:16,339 --> 00:47:18,175
do your email whenever we get... If we

1408
00:47:18,175 --> 00:47:20,011
get the circus train. Mh. We can let

1409
00:47:20,011 --> 00:47:22,326
them know, like, what month that's coming. Mh.

1410
00:47:22,805 --> 00:47:24,571
Because I would be interested to see that.

1411
00:47:24,810 --> 00:47:27,436
Oh, yeah. Heck. 35 piece train run on

1412
00:47:27,436 --> 00:47:29,664
this track. Oh, yeah. That'd be amazing. So

1413
00:47:29,664 --> 00:47:31,335
it would fit with what we already have

1414
00:47:31,335 --> 00:47:33,501
set up here. Yes. We just take 1

1415
00:47:33,501 --> 00:47:34,778
off and put that 1 on. Oh, that'd

1416
00:47:34,778 --> 00:47:37,013
be good. Got elephants and everything on. Say?

1417
00:47:37,811 --> 00:47:38,289
What do you say it?

1418
00:47:39,167 --> 00:47:41,653
We've had people. Like a guy from a

1419
00:47:41,653 --> 00:47:43,087
a friend of another guy goals for to

1420
00:47:43,087 --> 00:47:44,760
come up. He came in from Louisville,

1421
00:47:45,715 --> 00:47:48,026
to visit, and he heard about this through

1422
00:47:48,026 --> 00:47:49,434
that guy so they came up and looked

1423
00:47:49,554 --> 00:47:51,641
1 day, we had guy from Georgia

1424
00:47:52,093 --> 00:47:53,759
that was coming up to see his grandson

1425
00:47:53,759 --> 00:47:55,981
son's birthday, which live somewhere in reached out.

1426
00:47:57,189 --> 00:47:58,787
They stopped in end stay for probably 2

1427
00:47:58,787 --> 00:48:00,545
hours. And then he said, we're gonna be

1428
00:48:00,545 --> 00:48:01,505
late for that birthday party.

1429
00:48:02,463 --> 00:48:04,461
I'd work. That's what the grandma said, and

1430
00:48:04,461 --> 00:48:05,954
then he said well, we'll make it. So

1431
00:48:06,074 --> 00:48:08,540
But I, you the amount of work and

1432
00:48:08,540 --> 00:48:10,210
effort that you have in this. When you're

1433
00:48:10,210 --> 00:48:12,119
having people from... You know, anybody that comes

1434
00:48:12,119 --> 00:48:14,368
in, I'm sure you're... You know, you're grateful

1435
00:48:14,368 --> 00:48:15,886
to have them come in and enjoy it.

1436
00:48:16,046 --> 00:48:18,364
But when you're having people from other states

1437
00:48:18,364 --> 00:48:20,361
get wind of it and come in and

1438
00:48:20,361 --> 00:48:21,800
stay for that duration of time. That's...

1439
00:48:22,770 --> 00:48:25,153
That's gotta be a gratifying feeling. It's very

1440
00:48:25,153 --> 00:48:26,583
gratifying. And especially,

1441
00:48:27,932 --> 00:48:29,442
I don't know what it is. Well, I

1442
00:48:29,442 --> 00:48:30,871
do know what it is, because I I

1443
00:48:30,871 --> 00:48:32,157
have it in me too, but when you

1444
00:48:32,157 --> 00:48:33,748
come about with with little kids that

1445
00:48:34,544 --> 00:48:37,168
the child like wonder that comes out. Well,

1446
00:48:37,248 --> 00:48:38,918
when you... Actually have, you know, 4 or

1447
00:48:38,918 --> 00:48:41,083
5 6 show kids, whatever, little older than

1448
00:48:41,083 --> 00:48:43,316
that come in. They're just walking around the

1449
00:48:43,316 --> 00:48:44,751
plexiglass looking at dude.

1450
00:48:45,868 --> 00:48:47,942
That's a good feeling. See. And they're a

1451
00:48:47,942 --> 00:48:49,457
big smile on their face and they don't

1452
00:48:49,457 --> 00:48:49,936
wanna leave.

1453
00:48:51,387 --> 00:48:53,540
It's just that... That's what we're... That's what

1454
00:48:53,540 --> 00:48:55,454
we should told. No, yeah. And you don't

1455
00:48:55,454 --> 00:48:57,448
know the the the ripple effect that could

1456
00:48:57,448 --> 00:48:59,043
have in their life. You know they might

1457
00:48:59,043 --> 00:49:00,181
end up wanting to

1458
00:49:01,449 --> 00:49:03,358
it's it's it... I don't know if it

1459
00:49:03,358 --> 00:49:05,028
sends cliche your corny. But if, you know,

1460
00:49:05,108 --> 00:49:07,494
if 560 kid comes in, and this might

1461
00:49:07,494 --> 00:49:09,497
spark something within him or he might... We're

1462
00:49:09,497 --> 00:49:11,641
for Cs 1 day. You know what I

1463
00:49:11,641 --> 00:49:13,784
mean like I do it. It's it's a

1464
00:49:13,784 --> 00:49:16,166
might help us out. Yeah. Here. Yeah. But

1465
00:49:16,166 --> 00:49:18,727
we're getting old. And y'all... As far as,

1466
00:49:18,807 --> 00:49:21,356
you know, volunteer, do y'all take volunteers if

1467
00:49:21,356 --> 00:49:22,711
somebody wants to come in and, you know?

1468
00:49:23,030 --> 00:49:24,782
If they do, we've got a so far

1469
00:49:24,782 --> 00:49:27,427
everything, everybody brings us, like, last month,

1470
00:49:28,145 --> 00:49:29,123
we've got 4

1471
00:49:30,936 --> 00:49:31,733
picture albums,

1472
00:49:32,770 --> 00:49:35,242
trains. And the guy, I wouldn't hear had

1473
00:49:35,242 --> 00:49:37,094
to go to wedding. And he came in

1474
00:49:37,094 --> 00:49:37,255
late.

1475
00:49:37,894 --> 00:49:39,094
And he just left him here, he didn't

1476
00:49:39,094 --> 00:49:39,974
put his name on him.

1477
00:49:40,775 --> 00:49:42,215
So if he listens to us and you

1478
00:49:42,215 --> 00:49:44,295
brought 4 photo albums and come back and

1479
00:49:44,295 --> 00:49:45,335
give me a name where and put him

1480
00:49:45,335 --> 00:49:46,945
on him. Case you want them back 1

1481
00:49:46,945 --> 00:49:48,460
day. Can give them to you. But it's...

1482
00:49:48,778 --> 00:49:50,692
Right now, there's 1 or 2 that knows

1483
00:49:50,692 --> 00:49:52,446
a little bit about trains that says, hey,

1484
00:49:52,525 --> 00:49:53,960
if you're gone, I can sit in for

1485
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,208
you. Which is what we're looking for. Mh.

1486
00:49:56,447 --> 00:49:58,520
And they live pretty close. So that that's

1487
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,673
gonna help out. Have knowledge of the trains.

1488
00:50:00,912 --> 00:50:02,347
And once a month is really not that

1489
00:50:02,347 --> 00:50:02,905
bad right now.

1490
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,840
But like, last month or once before it's

1491
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:08,440
kinda raining, had a big crowd.

1492
00:50:10,039 --> 00:50:12,054
We thought he got pretty weather, we would

1493
00:50:12,054 --> 00:50:13,275
die down in numbers

1494
00:50:14,295 --> 00:50:15,015
that hadn't happened,

1495
00:50:15,894 --> 00:50:16,875
probably our first

1496
00:50:17,574 --> 00:50:17,974
Saturday,

1497
00:50:18,375 --> 00:50:19,015
December second.

1498
00:50:19,589 --> 00:50:20,782
Probably they had a hundred and 50 people

1499
00:50:20,782 --> 00:50:21,599
here at least

1500
00:50:22,054 --> 00:50:22,849
from 1 to 4.

1501
00:50:24,042 --> 00:50:25,791
And then it's probably gone down a little,

1502
00:50:25,951 --> 00:50:27,541
but we're still over a hundred mark every

1503
00:50:27,541 --> 00:50:28,972
month. Oh, it's great.

1504
00:50:29,544 --> 00:50:32,575
That's fantastic. Oh, yeah. Heck yeah, man, That's

1505
00:50:32,575 --> 00:50:32,974
fantastic.

1506
00:50:33,851 --> 00:50:35,845
So as far as what's you envision for.

1507
00:50:36,005 --> 00:50:38,238
Right now, you're the first Saturday every month

1508
00:50:38,238 --> 00:50:38,876
from 1 to 4.

1509
00:50:39,608 --> 00:50:40,558
For admission. Yep.

1510
00:50:41,826 --> 00:50:43,886
Is you... Is there a point in time

1511
00:50:43,886 --> 00:50:45,867
in which you envision it being open, you

1512
00:50:45,867 --> 00:50:46,025
know,

1513
00:50:47,312 --> 00:50:47,551
more

1514
00:50:48,189 --> 00:50:50,022
more often than than that? Or do you

1515
00:50:50,022 --> 00:50:51,297
like it the way it is? Or what

1516
00:50:51,297 --> 00:50:54,246
do you kinda envision for? We steal farm.

1517
00:50:54,899 --> 00:50:56,817
And still run the produce store on 41.

1518
00:50:58,335 --> 00:51:00,093
But... And then, Daniel, the 1 who does

1519
00:51:00,093 --> 00:51:01,771
the H o track. He's off Friday and

1520
00:51:01,931 --> 00:51:02,250
Saturday.

1521
00:51:02,825 --> 00:51:04,344
Because he's got a regular job in Goes.

1522
00:51:05,305 --> 00:51:07,864
It's just the manpower. Mh. And I would

1523
00:51:07,864 --> 00:51:09,224
love to be open, like, on Sundays too.

1524
00:51:09,465 --> 00:51:10,664
I just have to take a little time.

1525
00:51:10,825 --> 00:51:11,644
Mh. And

1526
00:51:12,037 --> 00:51:15,610
everybody's volunteer. Is. Yeah. Should be. So maybe

1527
00:51:15,610 --> 00:51:17,674
that day's coming. We figured we start 1

1528
00:51:17,674 --> 00:51:19,421
day and see how this goes and maybe

1529
00:51:19,421 --> 00:51:21,503
widen that out in Go america. But it

1530
00:51:21,503 --> 00:51:23,257
takes a team. It'll be able to put

1531
00:51:23,257 --> 00:51:25,889
this on. I mean, it's it's and and

1532
00:51:25,889 --> 00:51:27,903
me coming from not knowing what a

1533
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:29,556
much of a train hat works.

1534
00:51:30,448 --> 00:51:32,676
And Daniel trying to teach me it's a

1535
00:51:32,676 --> 00:51:35,302
hard job, but I'm willing to learn owns

1536
00:51:35,302 --> 00:51:37,132
it brings us smile to our kids face

1537
00:51:37,132 --> 00:51:38,803
man. And I like to watch them too.

1538
00:51:39,042 --> 00:51:40,490
I'm not I ain't a lot Oh yeah.

1539
00:51:40,729 --> 00:51:42,800
No. It's it's AII

1540
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:43,596
don't know, man. I...

1541
00:51:44,393 --> 00:51:47,021
Because it's very creative We're talking about it

1542
00:51:47,021 --> 00:51:47,839
because you've got

1543
00:51:49,425 --> 00:51:50,859
within the model, you know, you've got a

1544
00:51:50,859 --> 00:51:52,213
little bit of everything. We got, you know,

1545
00:51:52,292 --> 00:51:54,283
a dinosaur section. We got a church section.

1546
00:51:54,442 --> 00:51:56,593
We got a grocery store. Got people swimming

1547
00:51:56,593 --> 00:51:58,757
in the lake. Any any setting you can

1548
00:51:58,757 --> 00:52:00,906
think of is is there. And it takes

1549
00:52:00,906 --> 00:52:01,804
a lot of creativity

1550
00:52:02,816 --> 00:52:04,408
and kind of a vision to be able

1551
00:52:04,408 --> 00:52:06,579
to put this together and make it all

1552
00:52:07,129 --> 00:52:09,679
make sense. Yep. Does. And that's what I

1553
00:52:09,679 --> 00:52:11,512
was looking. It just may just make sense

1554
00:52:11,512 --> 00:52:13,106
when I look at it. Well, when this

1555
00:52:13,106 --> 00:52:14,142
was a blank table,

1556
00:52:14,954 --> 00:52:17,031
There was 4 of us. That stood around

1557
00:52:17,031 --> 00:52:18,709
it and says, well, we don't... We tried

1558
00:52:18,709 --> 00:52:21,286
to tried to make the top tunnel

1559
00:52:22,476 --> 00:52:24,701
the main focus, and we... There was some...

1560
00:52:24,860 --> 00:52:26,846
So much else to get in. We really

1561
00:52:26,846 --> 00:52:28,831
couldn't, and we think we're gonna change that.

1562
00:52:28,990 --> 00:52:29,944
We've got a tunnel.

1563
00:52:30,675 --> 00:52:32,675
And we think we're gonna change that 1

1564
00:52:32,675 --> 00:52:32,835
day.

1565
00:52:34,114 --> 00:52:35,554
But right now, we'll let it go for

1566
00:52:35,554 --> 00:52:36,034
a little while.

1567
00:52:36,835 --> 00:52:39,006
Marathon Hall, she's the 1 that... We got

1568
00:52:39,006 --> 00:52:40,670
a mural of Cs coming out of the

1569
00:52:40,670 --> 00:52:40,829
tunnel?

1570
00:52:41,621 --> 00:52:43,206
Yes. That looks great. And lot of people,

1571
00:52:43,365 --> 00:52:45,505
that's a that's the picture taken wall.

1572
00:52:46,394 --> 00:52:48,469
So more everybody got their phone out, and

1573
00:52:48,469 --> 00:52:49,586
they got their family in front of it,

1574
00:52:49,666 --> 00:52:50,784
and that's where it goes right there.

1575
00:52:51,901 --> 00:52:53,896
And she's doing a lot of the besides

1576
00:52:53,896 --> 00:52:56,630
that. A lot of the decorating and fixing

1577
00:52:56,630 --> 00:52:57,190
on this track.

1578
00:52:57,829 --> 00:52:59,590
It takes a woman's touch in that way

1579
00:52:59,590 --> 00:53:01,429
that's... On this 1 for sure so they

1580
00:53:01,429 --> 00:53:01,909
wasn't me.

1581
00:53:03,125 --> 00:53:04,405
Other, the mural. And now we hadn't even

1582
00:53:04,405 --> 00:53:06,025
talked about that. I mean, there's a

1583
00:53:06,405 --> 00:53:08,164
a very large section of the wall that's...

1584
00:53:08,644 --> 00:53:10,405
The mural is is painted on of the

1585
00:53:10,405 --> 00:53:12,264
tunnel and train coming out. And

1586
00:53:12,578 --> 00:53:13,613
It's pretty accurate,

1587
00:53:14,090 --> 00:53:15,921
especially the shape of it. Yes, it is.

1588
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:17,512
I don't even know what you call that

1589
00:53:17,512 --> 00:53:20,139
shape. It's... How they cut. It's not a

1590
00:53:20,139 --> 00:53:21,651
circular tunnel. No.

1591
00:53:22,463 --> 00:53:23,420
It's it's more...

1592
00:53:24,776 --> 00:53:25,015
Well,

1593
00:53:26,451 --> 00:53:28,764
like a trap or something. It's a it's

1594
00:53:28,764 --> 00:53:30,678
kind of a strange shape. Like it straight

1595
00:53:30,678 --> 00:53:30,918
up.

1596
00:53:32,049 --> 00:53:33,404
But you got the curves at the top,

1597
00:53:33,484 --> 00:53:35,158
like a train you'd have to have. Yeah.

1598
00:53:35,556 --> 00:53:36,114
But it's just...

1599
00:53:37,151 --> 00:53:39,223
It's almost shaped like the state of Georgia,

1600
00:53:39,462 --> 00:53:39,781
maybe.

1601
00:53:40,751 --> 00:53:42,260
Alabama or something, you know what it when

1602
00:53:42,340 --> 00:53:44,484
I'm thinking about it, like the geographical shape

1603
00:53:44,484 --> 00:53:46,232
of it. It's an interesting shape.

1604
00:53:47,026 --> 00:53:48,139
But it... But she did a great job.

1605
00:53:48,456 --> 00:53:50,379
She did. It's did a fantastic job. Of

1606
00:53:50,379 --> 00:53:52,614
course, I... She stayed here, mo... She was

1607
00:53:52,614 --> 00:53:53,811
here, about but she done it all by

1608
00:53:53,811 --> 00:53:55,886
myself. But when you would come in and

1609
00:53:55,886 --> 00:53:57,961
see kinda like where she started and you

1610
00:53:57,961 --> 00:53:58,201
saying.

1611
00:53:58,933 --> 00:54:00,285
I don't look a bit like what I

1612
00:54:00,285 --> 00:54:00,523
wanted.

1613
00:54:01,398 --> 00:54:03,385
But I didn't say nothing. And then the

1614
00:54:03,385 --> 00:54:04,816
next 2 or 3 days after she'd had

1615
00:54:04,816 --> 00:54:06,883
been here, you could see something coming in.

1616
00:54:07,121 --> 00:54:07,678
Right say,

1617
00:54:08,489 --> 00:54:10,245
Okay. That's a train. Ain't goes...

1618
00:54:10,963 --> 00:54:13,199
Yeah. Just leave me alone. I said, okay.

1619
00:54:13,518 --> 00:54:14,955
Is that kinda hard to watch it first?

1620
00:54:15,035 --> 00:54:16,631
Like, III don't know if that's what I

1621
00:54:16,631 --> 00:54:17,565
want and then very

1622
00:54:18,321 --> 00:54:20,313
in trying to hold. But I didn't won't

1623
00:54:20,313 --> 00:54:23,101
make her man for sure. She she's doing

1624
00:54:23,101 --> 00:54:23,340
great.

1625
00:54:24,137 --> 00:54:26,378
I'm getting you ever get the Tossing and

1626
00:54:26,378 --> 00:54:27,967
turn bad at late at night. Like, I

1627
00:54:27,967 --> 00:54:29,159
can't sleep. I a better go up there

1628
00:54:29,159 --> 00:54:31,543
at the museum and when weight was... And

1629
00:54:31,543 --> 00:54:34,351
and we was just getting cleaning out and

1630
00:54:34,351 --> 00:54:37,228
starting work, like, some of the bathroom work

1631
00:54:37,228 --> 00:54:38,426
or the walls we put up and I

1632
00:54:38,426 --> 00:54:40,594
could do that. When when nobody else was

1633
00:54:40,594 --> 00:54:42,266
here, and then when we got the trains

1634
00:54:42,266 --> 00:54:42,664
actually on.

1635
00:54:43,460 --> 00:54:45,528
It was trying to kinda like, let's get

1636
00:54:45,528 --> 00:54:46,722
1 running and just see what it looks

1637
00:54:46,722 --> 00:54:48,632
like. Well, we did that. We laid 1

1638
00:54:48,632 --> 00:54:50,316
out on we had a building in 1,

1639
00:54:50,952 --> 00:54:52,540
and we just sat there and let it

1640
00:54:52,540 --> 00:54:52,778
ruin.

1641
00:54:53,811 --> 00:54:55,240
Probably did it for an hour. I don't

1642
00:54:55,240 --> 00:54:57,782
remember. That's my next question. What's the longest

1643
00:54:57,782 --> 00:55:00,262
you sat here? Just watching the train you

1644
00:55:00,262 --> 00:55:01,933
think. I can't say you because my wife

1645
00:55:01,933 --> 00:55:03,445
might be listening. 1.

1646
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:05,673
Don't inc yourself.

1647
00:55:06,469 --> 00:55:07,208
She knows

1648
00:55:07,822 --> 00:55:09,750
she say, what you getting up early for

1649
00:55:09,750 --> 00:55:11,664
where are you being this late night not

1650
00:55:11,664 --> 00:55:13,579
that well down there. It's hard not. It's

1651
00:55:13,579 --> 00:55:15,493
just kind of... You kinda fall into it

1652
00:55:15,493 --> 00:55:16,291
hit no.

1653
00:55:17,009 --> 00:55:19,018
Watching it a little bit. A little bit

1654
00:55:19,018 --> 00:55:21,413
h sizing. And it's... When of course Said,

1655
00:55:21,573 --> 00:55:22,850
3 4 or 5, I was here,

1656
00:55:23,808 --> 00:55:25,485
where won't we do this, And somebody else

1657
00:55:25,485 --> 00:55:27,560
the Idea in, and we'd go from there.

1658
00:55:28,054 --> 00:55:29,331
So it was a help of all of.

1659
00:55:29,570 --> 00:55:31,965
Mh. Had to be. Yeah. It takes a

1660
00:55:31,965 --> 00:55:34,300
team like that that, you know, different people's

1661
00:55:34,359 --> 00:55:35,896
visions and opinions to

1662
00:55:36,209 --> 00:55:38,041
to make it all kind of mesh together

1663
00:55:38,041 --> 00:55:39,872
like it has. But may... That's that's the

1664
00:55:39,872 --> 00:55:43,079
word. I'm... I'm it mesh everything messes together

1665
00:55:43,217 --> 00:55:44,331
extremely well in here.

1666
00:55:45,460 --> 00:55:47,925
And To hear that. That's what the... What

1667
00:55:47,925 --> 00:55:48,640
we're shooting for.

1668
00:55:49,673 --> 00:55:50,866
And I know we talked about, you know,

1669
00:55:51,104 --> 00:55:52,853
maybe around... The good thing about it is

1670
00:55:52,853 --> 00:55:55,336
this is still relatively new. Yes. Very nice.

1671
00:55:55,576 --> 00:55:57,171
And they're still, you know, I'm sure y'all

1672
00:55:57,171 --> 00:55:58,766
have plenty of ideas on what you wanna

1673
00:55:58,766 --> 00:56:00,521
do and you've you've shared some of those

1674
00:56:00,521 --> 00:56:02,275
and, you know, like around Christmas time, you

1675
00:56:02,275 --> 00:56:04,030
can have a a Christmas themed.

1676
00:56:04,843 --> 00:56:05,742
Type of train

1677
00:56:06,518 --> 00:56:09,070
display here. Put lights out front. Flicker them.

1678
00:56:09,230 --> 00:56:10,984
We got lights gonna be flashing, hope within

1679
00:56:10,984 --> 00:56:11,304
a month.

1680
00:56:12,340 --> 00:56:13,776
That'll draw anybody's attention.

1681
00:56:14,429 --> 00:56:16,019
But actually, they got Christmas trained,

1682
00:56:17,292 --> 00:56:19,360
plus actually build them however you want them.

1683
00:56:19,599 --> 00:56:20,871
And then make maybe,

1684
00:56:21,603 --> 00:56:23,039
into Carnival, if we turn that into a

1685
00:56:23,119 --> 00:56:23,757
Christmas thing.

1686
00:56:24,953 --> 00:56:27,825
There's there's just just whatever imagination. Yeah. Yeah.

1687
00:56:28,064 --> 00:56:29,659
Well, it just the fact that we have

1688
00:56:29,659 --> 00:56:31,230
something here now to

1689
00:56:32,065 --> 00:56:33,339
Kinda commemorate them.

1690
00:56:33,976 --> 00:56:35,965
It's almost like the trademark of the town

1691
00:56:35,965 --> 00:56:38,433
that's it's it's a trademark, but it's invisible.

1692
00:56:38,752 --> 00:56:40,521
Yeah. It's right on underneath this and we

1693
00:56:40,521 --> 00:56:42,596
can't see it. That's right. So we... I

1694
00:56:42,596 --> 00:56:44,830
think it desperately needed something like this to

1695
00:56:44,830 --> 00:56:46,745
make just make people aware. I hope so.

1696
00:56:47,158 --> 00:56:48,351
And a lot of people in town that

1697
00:56:48,351 --> 00:56:50,101
don't know its therapeutic period. Right. And when

1698
00:56:50,101 --> 00:56:51,850
you tell them that air shafts over there,

1699
00:56:51,930 --> 00:56:53,759
they said, oh, can't be. I said oh,

1700
00:56:53,839 --> 00:56:53,998
yeah.

1701
00:56:54,793 --> 00:56:55,191
Show is?

1702
00:56:56,164 --> 00:56:58,565
So that's... It's it's something. Not to mention

1703
00:56:58,565 --> 00:57:00,485
if they, you know, little kids or grandkids

1704
00:57:00,485 --> 00:57:00,805
kids,

1705
00:57:01,605 --> 00:57:03,125
bring them up to your first Saturday the

1706
00:57:03,125 --> 00:57:05,057
month. I right. And they will have a

1707
00:57:05,057 --> 00:57:06,653
big time. I can look all day long.

1708
00:57:07,532 --> 00:57:08,351
Least wonderful.

1709
00:57:09,288 --> 00:57:11,123
3 hours, and that's not enough time. I

1710
00:57:11,123 --> 00:57:11,523
don't think.

1711
00:57:13,133 --> 00:57:15,831
So Tony, I mean, we've we talked at

1712
00:57:15,831 --> 00:57:17,974
length here. I mean, what as far as

1713
00:57:17,974 --> 00:57:19,720
the museum itself, is there anything that we

1714
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:22,118
have not mentioned or gloss over that. We

1715
00:57:22,118 --> 00:57:23,634
got t shirts and people... That's a great

1716
00:57:23,714 --> 00:57:25,708
Looking t shirt about t shirt. Got that

1717
00:57:25,708 --> 00:57:27,464
big locomotive coming at you on the front.

1718
00:57:28,022 --> 00:57:28,820
Coming out the tunnel.

1719
00:57:29,472 --> 00:57:31,223
Few sweatshirt shirts, of course, the ain't time

1720
00:57:31,223 --> 00:57:32,416
of the year for sweatshirt shirts and hope

1721
00:57:32,416 --> 00:57:33,530
we were gonna start getting more of them.

1722
00:57:33,769 --> 00:57:34,167
Mh.

1723
00:57:35,122 --> 00:57:37,521
But, really, we're not in of course, somebody

1724
00:57:37,521 --> 00:57:39,108
come up with a... They're gonna bring a

1725
00:57:39,108 --> 00:57:39,846
train whistle

1726
00:57:40,219 --> 00:57:42,202
with Bridges stop museum name on it. We're

1727
00:57:42,202 --> 00:57:43,551
gonna see how that Looks in case we

1728
00:57:43,551 --> 00:57:44,186
will sell that.

1729
00:57:45,872 --> 00:57:47,307
Right now, we just want people to come

1730
00:57:47,307 --> 00:57:49,700
out, especially bring your kids. Mh. And see

1731
00:57:49,700 --> 00:57:51,933
the train. Yep. That's what. Me that's what

1732
00:57:51,933 --> 00:57:53,289
it's all about. Oh, it's a it's a

1733
00:57:53,289 --> 00:57:54,326
wonderful resource.

1734
00:57:54,819 --> 00:57:57,930
For people now, the it... Are not familiar

1735
00:57:57,930 --> 00:57:59,764
with it. Okay. And even if they offer

1736
00:57:59,764 --> 00:58:01,200
me with, like, I've got some knowledge of

1737
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,353
it, I've seen the tunnel, you know, 345

1738
00:58:03,353 --> 00:58:04,684
times whatever, but

1739
00:58:05,199 --> 00:58:06,546
It really gives you that much more of

1740
00:58:06,546 --> 00:58:08,527
an appreciation for it. Looking around some of

1741
00:58:08,527 --> 00:58:10,429
these old photos and whatnot. These some of

1742
00:58:10,429 --> 00:58:11,617
the things that have been donated.

1743
00:58:12,188 --> 00:58:14,260
Hopefully we'll get more photos when the next

1744
00:58:14,260 --> 00:58:16,251
month or so. That's a slow thing come

1745
00:58:16,251 --> 00:58:17,526
and trying to put them on these walls.

1746
00:58:17,844 --> 00:58:19,517
You gotta do some detective work in this.

1747
00:58:19,756 --> 00:58:22,239
Don't you? As far as... Yeah. Hunting around

1748
00:58:22,239 --> 00:58:23,670
trying to find some of this stuff. I

1749
00:58:23,670 --> 00:58:24,306
got a brother all,

1750
00:58:25,021 --> 00:58:27,247
Troy Smiley. He found out the old o'brien,

1751
00:58:27,406 --> 00:58:29,473
which is a road down towards next to

1752
00:58:29,473 --> 00:58:29,711
hoax.

1753
00:58:30,999 --> 00:58:33,310
Is they used to... The people that oh

1754
00:58:33,310 --> 00:58:34,665
o'brien was the people who lived on no

1755
00:58:34,744 --> 00:58:34,983
O'brien.

1756
00:58:35,701 --> 00:58:37,795
And we found out they still got

1757
00:58:39,300 --> 00:58:40,255
Ken fo down in...

1758
00:58:41,050 --> 00:58:42,560
I wanna say Brent Wood or bail meade

1759
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:44,548
1 of the other. He's contacted them now.

1760
00:58:44,707 --> 00:58:46,059
He's trying to see if they got any

1761
00:58:46,059 --> 00:58:46,456
photos.

1762
00:58:47,110 --> 00:58:48,789
O family photos of when they was up

1763
00:58:48,789 --> 00:58:49,349
in this area.

1764
00:58:50,230 --> 00:58:50,730
So

1765
00:58:51,030 --> 00:58:52,710
that's where we're trying to shoot for. So

1766
00:58:52,710 --> 00:58:53,510
if anybody's got.

1767
00:58:54,561 --> 00:58:56,711
Photos of green brie. I don't mind putting

1768
00:58:56,711 --> 00:58:58,462
them up or rich top or easy.

1769
00:58:59,179 --> 00:59:00,452
And long as you put your name on

1770
00:59:00,452 --> 00:59:01,806
the backup and bring me, and we'll try

1771
00:59:01,806 --> 00:59:03,495
to We got room Whoop put them I...

1772
00:59:03,814 --> 00:59:06,286
You know, there's probably a... There's somebody out

1773
00:59:06,286 --> 00:59:08,461
there. Yeah. It probably has

1774
00:59:09,157 --> 00:59:10,295
photos and

1775
00:59:10,672 --> 00:59:10,911
documentation.

1776
00:59:11,644 --> 00:59:13,324
I hope so. If there... You just hadn't

1777
00:59:13,324 --> 00:59:15,085
stumbled on too yet. And more light, you

1778
00:59:15,085 --> 00:59:16,925
know, might be somebody older aids that ain't

1779
00:59:16,925 --> 00:59:18,925
on the Internet. But hopefully by word mouth,

1780
00:59:19,085 --> 00:59:20,204
people coming in and out,

1781
00:59:20,779 --> 00:59:22,452
know, let's... It hey So and So you

1782
00:59:22,452 --> 00:59:24,046
talked to them. If, you know, they've got

1783
00:59:24,046 --> 00:59:25,719
quite a bit of information about it. There's

1784
00:59:25,719 --> 00:59:28,005
somebody out there that that's hoarding it. You

1785
00:59:28,204 --> 00:59:30,115
because like I said, somebody's got it stored

1786
00:59:30,115 --> 00:59:31,947
away and actually forgot about it until somebody

1787
00:59:31,947 --> 00:59:34,177
brings up about a museum, train museum and

1788
00:59:34,177 --> 00:59:34,336
pop.

1789
00:59:35,132 --> 00:59:37,456
Because, now, we get people that when we've

1790
00:59:37,456 --> 00:59:38,172
been working here,

1791
00:59:38,967 --> 00:59:40,637
actually, before the doors were put in, it

1792
00:59:40,637 --> 00:59:42,704
was kinda open air. They were stop at

1793
00:59:42,704 --> 00:59:44,454
to stop signs, I, hey, I gotta a

1794
00:59:44,454 --> 00:59:45,965
train. I'm gonna bring you because I don't

1795
00:59:45,965 --> 00:59:48,467
use it no more. I okay. We'll

1796
00:59:49,239 --> 00:59:50,931
we'll put it up. Now I'll get a

1797
00:59:51,862 --> 00:59:53,372
edge or something and write their name on

1798
00:59:53,372 --> 00:59:54,008
the bottom of it.

1799
00:59:54,659 --> 00:59:56,730
They whoever want it back. It's ours. So,

1800
00:59:57,128 --> 00:59:59,039
that that's why we've accumulated a lot of

1801
00:59:59,039 --> 00:59:59,517
stuff in here.

1802
01:00:00,951 --> 01:00:02,544
Well, I I tell you. It's

1803
01:00:03,913 --> 01:00:06,545
it's just high quality stuff, Really high quality

1804
01:00:06,545 --> 01:00:09,177
stuff. Thank you. I'm just... I I didn't

1805
01:00:09,177 --> 01:00:10,693
know what to expect when I came in

1806
01:00:10,693 --> 01:00:11,889
because, like, I hadn't been here for 1

1807
01:00:11,889 --> 01:00:13,006
of the Saturdays, and

1808
01:00:14,214 --> 01:00:15,804
My boss heat... He told me like, I

1809
01:00:15,804 --> 01:00:17,790
think they're... They... This was not that long

1810
01:00:17,790 --> 01:00:19,380
ago. I didn't... I'm not really on the

1811
01:00:19,380 --> 01:00:20,674
internet, So I don't know

1812
01:00:21,223 --> 01:00:23,373
what goes on much, and he he told

1813
01:00:23,373 --> 01:00:24,488
me so you need to reach out to

1814
01:00:24,488 --> 01:00:26,478
the the Trent museum. And after for some

1815
01:00:26,478 --> 01:00:27,912
reason, I saying you think... I think about

1816
01:00:27,912 --> 01:00:28,947
the park over there,

1817
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:31,199
and then I was driving by 1, and

1818
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:32,800
I saw the sign I said, oh, there's

1819
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:33,519
actually a museum.

1820
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:35,760
But I didn't know. It was you heading

1821
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:37,280
it up. I... It was it was all

1822
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:38,375
new to me. So I didn't know what

1823
01:00:38,652 --> 01:00:39,287
expect, but it's

1824
01:00:40,477 --> 01:00:41,588
it it really...

1825
01:00:42,540 --> 01:00:44,920
The expectation I had it surpassed it. Good.

1826
01:00:45,158 --> 01:00:46,998
So y'all... Great to hear. Yeah. I yeah.

1827
01:00:47,157 --> 01:00:49,225
I can't brag on y'all enough, and... Maybe

1828
01:00:49,225 --> 01:00:49,862
would just get better.

1829
01:00:50,975 --> 01:00:51,793
First Saturday,

1830
01:00:52,327 --> 01:00:53,679
every month, rain or shine.

1831
01:00:54,395 --> 01:00:57,592
Snow. No matter. Wonderful. Get. Wonderful. And it's

1832
01:00:57,592 --> 01:01:00,376
free. Yep. People like free. They do. I

1833
01:01:00,376 --> 01:01:02,205
like free. Now. Also out, we do have

1834
01:01:02,205 --> 01:01:03,080
a donation bucket.

1835
01:01:04,209 --> 01:01:05,724
But don't worry about that.

1836
01:01:06,522 --> 01:01:08,117
People come. So, you know, obviously,

1837
01:01:08,915 --> 01:01:09,415
monetary

1838
01:01:10,032 --> 01:01:12,903
monetary, you know, financial donations, but also if

1839
01:01:12,903 --> 01:01:13,961
if people have

1840
01:01:14,353 --> 01:01:15,252
in Memorabilia,

1841
01:01:16,267 --> 01:01:17,862
anything that has to do with train. Y'all

1842
01:01:17,862 --> 01:01:19,536
are open to that as well. And if

1843
01:01:19,536 --> 01:01:21,530
we can display it which there's not much

1844
01:01:21,530 --> 01:01:22,407
stuff that we hadn't,

1845
01:01:23,856 --> 01:01:25,844
we'll put it up and put your name

1846
01:01:25,844 --> 01:01:26,503
on it

1847
01:01:27,275 --> 01:01:29,900
whatever whatever it is. Pay homage to who

1848
01:01:29,900 --> 01:01:32,364
the original owner. It's exactly right Yeah. We've

1849
01:01:32,364 --> 01:01:34,933
done that. Well, it's it's just fantastic man.

1850
01:01:35,092 --> 01:01:36,611
And I can't I can't brag on with

1851
01:01:36,611 --> 01:01:36,851
enough.

1852
01:01:37,810 --> 01:01:39,887
Don't, this has been great. I appreciate you

1853
01:01:39,887 --> 01:01:41,646
sitting down with me and educating me on

1854
01:01:41,646 --> 01:01:42,365
some of this stuff.

1855
01:01:43,336 --> 01:01:44,871
Mean, we really have a... It's a

1856
01:01:46,121 --> 01:01:48,134
it's a shame. It doesn't get the publicity

1857
01:01:48,191 --> 01:01:49,623
that it gets. Tired. You know what I

1858
01:01:49,623 --> 01:01:50,260
mean? Tired.

1859
01:01:51,072 --> 01:01:52,668
Well, I mean, just the the tunnel itself.

1860
01:01:52,907 --> 01:01:56,257
You know, this this massive structure that is

1861
01:01:56,257 --> 01:01:57,953
just right underneath this and

1862
01:01:58,411 --> 01:02:00,027
think about all them guys that

1863
01:02:00,737 --> 01:02:02,960
talk about some hard labor going. I just

1864
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:04,389
hate to I hate to think that, you

1865
01:02:04,389 --> 01:02:06,373
know, I... If that was me working back

1866
01:02:06,373 --> 01:02:08,597
then, that I want somebody appreciate all that

1867
01:02:08,597 --> 01:02:10,516
work I did. You know what I mean??

1868
01:02:11,072 --> 01:02:12,500
And I wish they was... In that day,

1869
01:02:12,659 --> 01:02:13,690
I wish they had more pictures.

1870
01:02:14,483 --> 01:02:15,911
We've got quite a few that were getting

1871
01:02:15,911 --> 01:02:18,465
done, but it's not nowhere near like you

1872
01:02:18,465 --> 01:02:20,132
would do today because everybody has a cell

1873
01:02:20,132 --> 01:02:23,069
camera and or cell phone Can't... Pictures every

1874
01:02:23,069 --> 01:02:24,577
minute. That would have been something to have.

1875
01:02:25,053 --> 01:02:28,421
Sure. Because 19 o 2 you say. So

1876
01:02:28,421 --> 01:02:28,921
that's

1877
01:02:29,780 --> 01:02:30,999
hundred and 20

1878
01:02:31,777 --> 01:02:34,909
hundred 24 years. Is that right?? Yeah. Which

1879
01:02:34,909 --> 01:02:36,425
in the grand scheme to time at ain't

1880
01:02:36,425 --> 01:02:37,063
that long.

1881
01:02:37,702 --> 01:02:38,101
Really?

1882
01:02:38,660 --> 01:02:40,176
Wasn't that lie it wasn't that long go.

1883
01:02:42,012 --> 01:02:43,105
But it's just

1884
01:02:43,859 --> 01:02:45,287
I don't know. It's just something we've got

1885
01:02:45,287 --> 01:02:47,272
this beautiful thing here and, you know, to

1886
01:02:47,272 --> 01:02:49,177
be able to have reverence forward and the

1887
01:02:49,177 --> 01:02:51,082
fact that now we've got this museum that

1888
01:02:51,082 --> 01:02:53,161
it makes... It just puts the awareness out

1889
01:02:53,161 --> 01:02:53,797
there for people,

1890
01:02:54,591 --> 01:02:56,418
pretty neat stuff. So I can't I can't

1891
01:02:56,418 --> 01:02:57,951
brag on y'all enough or

1892
01:02:58,483 --> 01:03:00,311
having the vision to to make all this

1893
01:03:00,311 --> 01:03:01,764
come to life because it... It's

1894
01:03:02,235 --> 01:03:04,074
really beautiful. What we got going on here.

1895
01:03:04,315 --> 01:03:06,474
And hope it'll be something different each time.

1896
01:03:07,034 --> 01:03:08,795
If people wanna come every month with so

1897
01:03:08,795 --> 01:03:09,434
far they have.

1898
01:03:10,641 --> 01:03:12,387
Just something extra form to see or something

1899
01:03:12,387 --> 01:03:12,625
different.

1900
01:03:13,259 --> 01:03:14,766
Of course, you'll be here to type if

1901
01:03:14,766 --> 01:03:17,384
people have questions and wanna be educated you

1902
01:03:17,384 --> 01:03:18,833
here. Go no more weddings.

1903
01:03:20,349 --> 01:03:21,626
So, hopefully, I'll be here.

1904
01:03:22,584 --> 01:03:25,378
Or Mark or anybody, they know the town

1905
01:03:25,378 --> 01:03:26,789
history better than I do. So

1906
01:03:27,469 --> 01:03:28,670
But if it gets you out of a

1907
01:03:28,670 --> 01:03:30,989
wedding then, you know, that's just there go.

1908
01:03:31,150 --> 01:03:33,150
Yeah. Hey, I'm Hey, if I need to,

1909
01:03:33,309 --> 01:03:35,633
I'll come volunteer your too, Okay. I remember

1910
01:03:35,633 --> 01:03:35,792
that.

1911
01:03:36,505 --> 01:03:37,695
Long as you bringing your mom and Daddy.

1912
01:03:37,932 --> 01:03:39,518
Yeah. I think Danny think dylan him cup

1913
01:03:39,518 --> 01:03:40,945
up here and look at. We love you.

1914
01:03:41,103 --> 01:03:41,659
Yes. He will.

1915
01:03:43,023 --> 01:03:45,565
Show wheel. Well, Tony, heck... Man. Thanks again

1916
01:03:45,565 --> 01:03:47,709
for, giving me your time doing this. And

1917
01:03:47,709 --> 01:03:49,853
again, it's a wrist top train museum. It's

1918
01:03:49,853 --> 01:03:51,203
if you're sitting at the red light,

1919
01:03:52,014 --> 01:03:53,932
looking south. You hang a ride on gear

1920
01:03:53,932 --> 01:03:56,250
road, and it's just right Smack dab here.

1921
01:03:57,128 --> 01:03:59,686
Hard mission. And, of course, you y'all have

1922
01:03:59,686 --> 01:04:00,186
a

1923
01:04:00,659 --> 01:04:03,610
It has a Facebook page. Right? Yes. And

1924
01:04:03,610 --> 01:04:05,045
you... There's some... You can...

1925
01:04:06,321 --> 01:04:07,518
I don't really know what you call that,

1926
01:04:07,677 --> 01:04:09,352
we can take your cell phone and take

1927
01:04:09,352 --> 01:04:11,042
a picture of that. And it'll get you

1928
01:04:11,042 --> 01:04:11,281
here.

1929
01:04:13,115 --> 01:04:14,391
I don't know what you call it. I

1930
01:04:14,391 --> 01:04:15,667
think they call it, and I'm not really...

1931
01:04:15,907 --> 01:04:17,900
It's a Qr code. Qr code. You're are

1932
01:04:17,900 --> 01:04:19,575
correct. I don't know. I don't need to.

1933
01:04:19,989 --> 01:04:20,630
Well, works.

1934
01:04:21,190 --> 01:04:23,109
Daniel, the 1 does O train, he come

1935
01:04:23,109 --> 01:04:24,630
up for that. I said, okay...

1936
01:04:26,150 --> 01:04:28,070
Good to have a young man that

1937
01:04:28,964 --> 01:04:31,778
is is, what do you call it? Technologically

1938
01:04:31,916 --> 01:04:33,672
savvy for that kind of thing. That takes

1939
01:04:33,672 --> 01:04:34,948
a lot off of You ideas for me.

1940
01:04:36,876 --> 01:04:38,544
Well, the information is out there.

1941
01:04:39,497 --> 01:04:41,721
If people are at first Saturday every month,

1942
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:44,025
1 to 04:00. See it. Stop trainees. Thank

1943
01:04:44,025 --> 01:04:46,820
you very much. Alright, everybody. Appreciate you listening.

1944
01:04:46,978 --> 01:04:48,329
Be sure to tune in next week for

1945
01:04:48,329 --> 01:04:49,362
another episode. Bye bye.

1946
01:04:51,666 --> 01:04:53,507
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1947
01:04:53,507 --> 01:04:55,015
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1948
01:04:55,492 --> 01:04:57,159
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1949
01:04:57,159 --> 01:04:59,540
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