Careless Jones, A Parody For Rail Buffs

“Wit stabs, begs pardon—and turns the weapon in the wound."

Scene: The New York, New Haven & Hartford roundhouse at Hartford, Connecticut

In Florida the great conquistador hoped to find a Golconda. Instead, he found a Golgotha.
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The roads were terrible, and posted badly or not at all; you had to equip yourself against a hundred mishaps, ninety-three of which actually happened--but you were often up to your hubcaps in pleasure.

The Grimké sisters forsook their heritage to fight for abolition. Then, many years later, their brother’s terrible sin came back to haunt them.

Life aboard the gunboat Panay was an idyl, and its crewmen were the envy of the fleet. Then, without warning, Japanese bombs started to fall.

Flowing from the Canadian border to Long Island Sound, nourishing both industry and agriculture, and carrying on its back sailing sloops, steamships, and pleasure craft, the Connecticut River has been for three hundred years.

For ten tumultuous years Sam Adams burned with a single desire: American independence from Great Britain.

Verdicts of History: II -- Is it all right to shoot your wife’s lover? Do you have to catch him flagrante delicto? What if your victim is district attorney? And if you are a member of Congress? Now come with us to Washington, D.C., in 1859.
Is it all right to shoot your wife’s lover? Do you have to catch him flagrante delicto? What if your victim is district attorney? And if you are a member of Congress? Now come with us to Washington, D.C., in 1859.

There was no organized drive to rid the nation of slavery until a religious effort formed in Ohio.