If you don’t like OT why did you open this???
For those of broader mind… I’m watching the Bull run on TV…
Did this run in the 80s???
If I go really crazy I’ll have it pass through my street scene… got to be a couple of cruisers speed stopping some competitors… where will I get the figures for some of the car crews? They’re CRAZY"! [}:)]
What cars back then? Stingrays? Firebird? i dunno…??? [%-)][:D]
TIA again [8D]
PS Why doesn’t anyone make US size figures? All the models look like their anorexic by comparison to what I see on TV! Except, of course, for for models of models…
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Hmmmm…this doesn’t seem to be either the nutcases in Pamplona or the American Civil War battle. Which Bull run are you referring to?
A … maybe “the” supercar race from New Your to Hollywood? (Sorry… forgot the other one… but that would be the “Battle of Bull Run” and 1880 or so…?.. don’t know… it didn’t involve a railroad (as far as I recall) so I’m not too well up un it).
Thanks [8D]
The first Battle of Bull Run as named by the north or Battle of Manassas as named by the south was in 1861. If I remember correctly, the north was winning the battle until the south was able to bring in reinforcements via rail at the nearby Manassas Junction. I believe this is one of the very first battles were railroads played a significant part.
Of course the north’s well developed railroad network and industrial might was what really what enabled the north to win the war.
The North was winning the First Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861, until they crested Henry House Hill and came face to face with one Thomas J. Jackson and his men. He earned the name ‘Stonewall’ right there and turned the Union advance into the Great Skedaddle. Almost a year later it was General Pope’s turn to lose the Second Battle of Manassas on the same ground.
On the race, I believe you are referring to the “Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash”, run from the Red Ball Garage in NY City to the Portofino Inn in San Diego. Dan Gurney and Brock Yates set the all time record in a Ferrari; something like 33 hours. Car and Driver used to cover it, and it was for real. Unfortunately, law enforcement did not take kindly to this form of entertainment and it ended. The vehicles ranged from Winnebagoes to Cadillacs to Corvettes, etc.
Wiinebago and Corvette both pulled over for speeding! That sounds great! Anyone make an H0 Winnie? I’ve got the cops and the black and whites.
Which side was general Pope on?
RR wars… don’t recal which was first the American Civil War or the Franco Prussian War… whichever it was takes the honours.
Few people realise that RR were very instrumental in stopping the slave trade. In West Coast africa whites did not have immunity from the local diseases so first off capture and transportation to the coast was a black-on-black crime. The whites, more Portugese than anyone else (and more slaves went to Brasil than the USA) stayed off shore as far as they could. RR played a huge part when they pushed inland for mineral extraction… they took drainage and “western” troops with them along with engineers. that meant that slave capture could be stopped at source and policed. Unfortunately slavery is not dead in Africa or many other places.
Anyway… thanks for the two lots of info [8D]
That would be the American Civil War as it started 10 years before the Franco-Prussian War. In the Civil War, the north’s well developed, interconnected, and mostly standard gauge rail network allowed the Union to move troops fast and efficiently while the Confederacy’s rail network was less developed, not very connected, and used several different gauges, making troop movement more difficult. The one railroad most heavily affected by the war was the Baltimore and Ohio. It was a border state railroad and was constantly raided, destroyed, and rebuilt. Then of course there is the story of the Great Locomotive Chase.
