GDG- Supoplying the armies

John Grim jgrim1941 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 11:44:22 CST 2012 

Peter,

  Agreed about Chinatown and most of DC regarding the restaurants.  I had a
Reuben sandwich at Clydes...about $1195 if I remember.  I drank water,
cocktails started at $8.  I have a friend who is part owner of Mai Thai on
19th and hosted a dinner party for an old friend visiting from Singapore
that use to live here years ago at Meiwah on 21st & M.  All not cheap but I
like the owners.  I prefer the family restaurants around Spfd. as the most
reasonable.  Almost all the chain restaurants have suffered in this
economy...smaller portions, higher prices...and that includes 0utback, Ruby
Tuesdays, TGIF, etc.  You can still get a decent meal at Fuddruckers IMHO.

I'm figuring 8 more weeks to worry about.  We've been really lucky so far.
 Google Wilkes Street Tunnel in Alex for a good description and
history...dimensions, dates.  The train I was thinking about was apparently
called the "Pioneer".

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:30 PM, <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> A Chinatown parade-   I didn't even know about that,  John.
>
> I am glad you noticed that in the sign, also.  It is  annoying- or at least
> annoying to me, to see sloppy history.
>
> The boarding house is the only Chinese restaurant I've ever  been in
> downtown.   Subjectively I think the meal menu rates went up  when
> Chinatown got
> the Verizon Center and got popular.  I liked it far  better when it was a
> dangerious urban slum but lots of history-rich places get  ruined when they
> clean them up for the general public and tourists.  The  food chains come
> in
> and it is just like going to shopping mall  restaurants.
>
> I think the Chinese restaurants away from touristy Chinatown  are just as
> good but cheaper.
>
> Wok n Roll is haunted you know.  Supposedly by Annie  Surratt and her
> buddies up in the attic.  When the DC licensing office was  in there and
> I'd
> renew my license I'd always go in and get a couple of egg  rolls.  The
> owner of
> that time when it was called Go-Lo's would tell me  ghost stories of Annie
> Surratt.  W n R supposedly has a good happy hour now  but I try to avoid
> Chinatown just as I avoid Georgetown.
>
> Chili one of these days!
>
> A  Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> Peter
>
>
> In a message dated 1/30/2012 12:08:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
>
> Esteemed  GDG Member Contributes:
> Peter
>
> How did your day go yesterday??   With the Car show, Chinatown parade and
> usual tourists that area between  White House and Capitol was really
> crowded.  I was actually standing  outside the Surratt boarding house when
> you called.  A number of us  had dinner at Clydes after the parade.  The
> historical city sign  outside of 604 said that Booth was shot and died in
> the tobacco barn during  his escape attempt....of course I had to remark
> that he actually died on  the front porch of the Garrett farm....that's
> me...always looking for  mistakes.  It was way to crowded to see much of
> the
> parage....people  kept pushing forward until the marchers barely were able
> to squeeze  thru.  It got much colder when the sun went down as you
> probably
> know.
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:19 AM,  <CWMHTours at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member  Contributes:
> > Yes John-
> >
> > I have submitted a CW map of DC  and the forts to the  gdg.  If you see
> > where the traacks run  they O&A tracks ran in almost a  straight line
> down
> >  Wilkes
> > St.
> >
> > I wondered how they got the locos through  the tunnel.  It  does seem
> awful
> > low.
> >
> >  A  Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > In a  message dated 1/28/2012 11:04:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >  jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Esteemed  GDG Member  Contributes:
> > Peter
> >
> > When I first moved to  Alexandria  around 1976 I lived on Wilkes anduse
> to
> > walk thru  that tunnel almost every  day when going to work at Chadwick's
> on
> >  the waterfront.  My  understanding is that they used smaller engines  to
> go
> > from the wharves thru  the tunnel.  They probably  connected to the other
> > railroads near where  the Masonic Temple  is.   When I owned a house on
> > Walnut St (west  end) it  was very near the area where many railroad
> workers
> > lived that   loaded and unloaded goods from western virginia and there
> were
> > still  two  families on Walnut that were engineers on the 0range &
> >  Alexandria
> > routes and whose fathers had also been engineers on  those  routes.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:46 AM, George  Connell
> > <georgeconnell at mac.com>wrote:
> >
> > >  Esteemed GDG Member  Contributes:
> > > Very interesting. Thank  you.
> > >
> > >  Regards,
> > >
> > >  George
> > > 26ª11'56"N   81ª48'19W"
> > >
> >  > On Jan 28, 2012, at 10:36 AM, CWMHTours at aol.com  wrote:
> >  >
> > > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> > > >  Andy  brought up the procedures of supplying the  armies.
> >  > >
> > >  > At the risk of boring people with another DC  story there is
> > something
> > > > mildly weird in  Alexandria.  Along the Potomac is  a small ridge
> maybe
> >  > 15-20
> > > > feet high.  I think  it is millions of  years old alluvial silt
> >  deposits
> > > from
> >  >  > the Potomac flooding when the water level was higher.
> >  >  >
> > > > On Wilkes St there is a tunnel through it  where the  other  streets
> go
> > > over
> > > >  it.  Always wondered  about it then I found out that before   the CW
> the
> > > > tracks of  the O&A RR ran through the  tunnel to docks on the
> Potomac.
> > >  During  the
> > > > war vessels would come up and  offload directly  into  the freight
> cars
> > and
> > > > the stuff   shipped directly out to the Union armies.   Then there
> were
> >  >  some
> > > > hospital cars that would be pushed through  the  tunnels,  placed
> onto
> > > barges
> > > >  where steam tugs would  move them up to places like Balt or
> Philly.
> > > >
> > > >  How much H Haupt had to do  with this I don't know.  They  would
> load
> > > >  freight cars onto the barges- they would be loaded  perpendicular
>  to
> > the
> > > hull of
> > > > the barge. From  there  they would be sent to Fredericksburg or City
> > Point
> >  > > where  they would be put back on the tracks.
> > >  >
> > > > By @ 1863 the  tracks of the B&O were extended  across the  Potomac
> into
> > > >  Alexandria and connected  with the O&A.
> > > >
> > > > Hope you  find this  story interesting.
> > > >
> > > > A  Loyal  Neo-Anti  Unionist,
> > > > Peter
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