Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . FORT HILL S(irARB IN 1858. Page IN OLD BOSTON 343 Every step in the development of railroadingwas opposed by those endowed with goodcommon sense. Captain Basil Hall, who in1827 rode by stage coach over the presentroute of the Boston and Albany railroad, said, Those Yankees talk of constructing a railroadover this route; as a practical engineer Ipronounce it simply impossible. And in theJune of that year there appeared in the BostonCourier a satirical article from the pen of theeditor, Jos
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . FORT HILL S(irARB IN 1858. Page IN OLD BOSTON 343 Every step in the development of railroadingwas opposed by those endowed with goodcommon sense. Captain Basil Hall, who in1827 rode by stage coach over the presentroute of the Boston and Albany railroad, said, Those Yankees talk of constructing a railroadover this route; as a practical engineer Ipronounce it simply impossible. And in theJune of that year there appeared in the BostonCourier a satirical article from the pen of theeditor, Joseph T. Buckingham, which ridiculedthe railroad mania and declared a line fromBoston to Albany to be as useless as a railroadfrom Boston to the Moon. Yet Buckingham himself joined the fa-natics the next year. Nearly all the editors,indeed, printed congratulatory notices when,on March 17, 1834, the first New Englandexperiment with a locomotive was made on theBoston and Worcester road, then completedas far as Newton. Regular passenger serviceto this town, with three trains a day in eitherdirection, began on May 16, the trip being madei
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