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My school teacher said she had a treat in store for us today. She said we would get to see history being made. I had never seen that before.We finished our morning lessons in our McGuffev Reader and then she told us to line up and hold hands ... we were going for a walk. We crossed the stage road and treked down the path in the direction of the old canal barn and grocery store run by Henry Shaw (who was soon to become the first station agent at Ulster.) When we got there some of our parents were there - everyone was in a festive mood, it seems. People were chatting about travel, produce shipments, seed, lumber, tobacco and all other types of items ... every time it -- .was connected to the words “by rail.”** One of the men put his head to the rail and said “she’s com-►*ing.” Just them the telegraph sounded in the canal boat tied I; up by the store and Mr. Shaw came out and said “She’s due t-any moment!” The noise level in the crowd went up. necks •; craned to be the first to get a glimpse of this happening in his-»; tory.U A rider on horseback just came up fast and announced that ** it has reached the north edge of town doing about 10 miles* per hour, he reckoned. “She’s a beautiful sight” he ex-*; claimed!* Listen! Sure enough ... something was coming. Grey and »■ white clouds of smoke were billowing up and outward from t; it. Steady jabs of steam hit the sky as though it was trying todarn a permanent new path in the air. As it approached I closer, we could see people standing upon the huge cow-S; catcher of the locomotive we would come to know- as the '• “Hornet.” They were waving banners and generally having* a good time.t The smoke-belching monster of a steam locomotive came I; to a halt in front of the canal grocery store and boat depot. 5 Col. Welles of Athens, President of the Pennsylvania New' I York Canal and Railroad Company, gave a speech, but cut it* short due to the emotion welled up in him at this occasion —* the first inspection tour of the new Pa. N.Y. Canal and R/R C on August 27,1867.
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The Daily Review
Towanda, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Jul 11, 1983
Page 3
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Indiana U.
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