. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . CITY BRIDGE IN USE Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood and probably themselves will not berealized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a logical diagram oncerecorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are to do things that will stagger us.— Daniel Burnham, Architect of INCIDENTAL TO RAILROADCONSTRUCTION R. B. Mann Assistant Trainmaster, Toledo Division, C. H. & D. The hero of this
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . CITY BRIDGE IN USE Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood and probably themselves will not berealized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a logical diagram oncerecorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are to do things that will stagger us.— Daniel Burnham, Architect of INCIDENTAL TO RAILROADCONSTRUCTION R. B. Mann Assistant Trainmaster, Toledo Division, C. H. & D. The hero of this little story is—or was—John McCarty, able trackman, son ofthe ould sod, minus one eye and there-fore familiarly, if not respectfully, calledby all One-eyed Mac. He was knownthroughout this particular part of theSouthwest as one of the best heelersto be had for a track-laying gang. It wasin the days when the advent of the track-laying train was scorned as unworthy ofconsideration by the old timers whohad assisted in laying hundreds of milesof track by the iron-and-tie-car route andwho, as a consequence, could not or wouldnot look upon the new invention withfavor. To those who know, there is anart in the laying of rails by hand. In the spring and summer of 98, theRock Island Railway completed the ex-tension of the Mangum branch fromMountain View to Mangum, in the south-western part of Indian Territory (nowthe State of Oklahoma). The govern-ment had not as yet thrown
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