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Understanding 9/11tv Rails Around the Thumb CSPAN August 24, 2017 6:07am-6:21am EDT
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. >> we are a step away from the thomas edison museum. to learn more about the city's literary scene with a story and to learn about the role played in the region. and the impetus for up to that point there had not been a great deal written on it especially when it comes to the interaction of the different railroads and communities but if you look at the map basically it
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comprises five counties there is a little bit of debate before the most part with a first key bin to the county as whole sunday interior itself were few and far between. those first roads coming into the region when it came up from detroit vacate its connection here economically it was still tied to a british interests with the war of 1812 there those
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british interest of finance the railroad to the point that they were built to a british design so you could go to places it in ontario and other areas in canada in the letter destruction and not only the immigration plaint that was one of the first drops when they came to the united states tour came through engaged that
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because of that and they would not have come here otherwise. and with industry leader ron and basically in this region because of the connection with the railroad with fed doubled, but was unique and the fact you could pick one or two different things is huge because distil the data over a presence -- river a presence in the theater. some worked we had a large
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facility as they were located to the north of us that we know now is the township that basically were rebuilt because of world war war i through the air early 1890's the largest employer in the community and several others and those that were unique to our area the operative back-and-forth over different points of time and at one point to have one-third of the
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community with their well-being so that location we're currently shooting is a historic railcar built sometimes around the '80s and restored at the shops to the north of us and then that burned in a 1913 so there very few surviving examples. it is of the type that would have been around at the time and spending his formative years here is spent his ages
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between seven and 16 and he would walk around with a basket and he would get on and then read the train negative loan to day trait and hit the stations along the way in the afternoon he would come back and he did have down time in between and very often would go to the city library of detroit he would just that is what
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he believed in it the that tells you that he was always constantly trying to learn something new. that downtime is something that he cherished and the fact he always kept an eye and ear for what was going on and one that is a nickname that was a little
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bit bucolic run into very small communities a lot of those cruz the work the train now it would take three and now for four hours to drive it would take almost 16 back then. and piercing the interior of the region. so everyday life people just grew to ruth understand the everyday thing.
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long after the tunnel was constructed i believe from chicago and basically began to give birth as the trade went through the tunnel. there are stories of the passengers appreciate collection together to the next location to start them off in life. there are several stories related. poillon steel concrete structure and those are the blue water bridge as.
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a la the next extension when that a railroad built the tunnel that traffic increased greatly in those natural traffic lines and the eddied to transport economically the construction of those two bridges. so the general public and on their way to their busy life rand schedule.
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today it is just as important to the freight room those large commodities were shipped most easily by rail and with the impact of cold with the decline recently obviously has an ad and the fact but the container of the improvement movie from places like china or indonesia railroads are very bad job part of that. those are there right along the containerships.
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and with those trucking companies they're still very important and vital part of the transportation. there were several things and i was writing this broken abated interesting the went to a bench in the connection with the titanic. says the overall personal connection with the smaller communities that several years to save 50 or 60 the feeling of the individuals that work for a the railroad
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is still very deep and part of the reason the pictures that i have came to light and i am forever grateful if it is part of my duty
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