1850s and the following 3 decades in Missouri to watch the birth and growth of the Pacific RR (eventually MoPac & Frisco). I want to see and photograph the first locos on the line, the drilling of Barrett's tunnels, the failure of the Gasconade bridge, Sesesh governor "Fox" Jackson fleeing St. Louis on a train in terror of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, the postwar expansion of both branches across the state and their separation.
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