RE: [CBQ] Railroading dangers

["Rupert Gamlen gamlenz@hotmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Pete

I’ve checked the magazine and it is definitely shown as “Astell”. According to Wikipedia, Axtell was incorporated as a village in 1885 when the B&MR extended to that point, and was named for a railroad worker.


Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

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Sent: Thursday, 23 November 2017 4:43 a.m.
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Railroading dangers

 

Not to be "knitpicky" and it may be a TYPO.. but the first named town namled should read  AXTELL  rather than ASTELL.

 

Pete

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Sent: Wed, Nov 22, 2017 6:49 am
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That's one I've never heard of before. Snake and dog bites indeed but never a 

Panther !

 

Leo

On Nov 21, 2017, at 11:21 PM, Rupert Gamlen gamlenz@hotmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Mention has often been made of the potential dangers of railroading but I can’t recollect any tales such as this one from 1887, 130 years ago yesterday -  

Engineer Markham and his fireman, on the Burlington & Missouri River road, were attacked by a panther while repairing a wheel of the locomotive between Astell and Minden, Neb., November 20, and both were severely lacerated before the animal was killed. The latter measured six feet in length and weighed over 200 pounds.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

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