GDG- Supoplying the armies

CWMHTours at aol.com CWMHTours at aol.com
Mon Jan 30 12:30:36 CST 2012 

Are you talking about the switching engine in Old Town for the  tunnel?
 
The engines during the CW period are pretty amazing.  I  don't remember if 
the B&O museum in Balt has a camelback or grass  hopper.  I need to go back.
 
Off topic a bit have you ever seen the copy of the Winans  steam gun that 
sits along Rt 1 in Elk Ridge Landing?  Drove past it for  years without 
knowing what it was.
 
Then I found out that there was only one and it was designed  by that 
genius Ross Winans of the B&O.  Too bad he was a  Reb.  Story goes that Ben 
Butler captured it when he entered Balt in in  61.  Winans or somebody took the 
brech block and it could not be  used.  Nor could anybody figure out how to 
fix it or use it.
 
What happened to it is lost to history.
 
Story goes that it could fire a 12lb projectile 5  miles!
 
The one that sits on Rt 1 is a replica they built for the  1960s 
Commemoration of the Civil War.  It sits out in the elements getting  ruined.  I don't 
know why they don't put a shed over it or put it in the  B&O Mus.  There's 
not even a sign there to tell you what it  is.
 
GDG-ers- If you wanna see something weird look up online the  Winans Steam 
Gun.
Pretty damn weird looking.  
 
A  Loyal Neo-Anti Unionist,
Peter  

 
In a message dated 1/30/2012 12:45:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jgrim1941 at gmail.com writes:

Esteemed  GDG Member Contributes:
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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