of the united states military railroad. here, we portray the damaging of a railroad. the ties were ripped up and the rail was heated and bent. most people immediately look at this and say, "oh, sherman's bow ties." the first instance of rail being heated and distorted like this was near cumberland, maryland, in 1861 when the confederates captured the bridge over the potomac river, ripped up a mile of track, heated the track and wrapped it around trees. here at mount clare was a massive industrial complex, probably by the turn of the century some 400 or 500 acres. here actually, during the civil war, the b & o railroad build its own locomotives, its own rail cars, cast its own rail, and built every kind of apparatus and piece of steam equipment. they also prefabricated bridge parts. sections of equipment so that as the confederates would bring damage along the mainline, somewhere out between harper's ferry, martinsburg or grafton, they would simply send a repair train out and usually rebuild the damage faster than the confederates could inflict it. as a matter of fact,

a guest curator at the railroad museum. this is the largest civil war railroad exhibit ever presented. it coincides with the american civil war sesquicentennial. anduns for five years changes each year to address that your of the war. interesting aspect of our exhibit is the fact that we are one location that many of the events took place in these exact area. we have the very equipment used by the railroad in the civil war. we present a bottom up history of the b&o railroad. we present the technologies and the people involved guarding, destroying, building, and operating the railroad during the civil war years. this would be an entire area of activity. there were paint shops, carpentry shops, car shops. they were casting the rail. there were machine shops. they were building bridge parts. continuously loading things on trains. as the confederates would damage a section of track, or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out, pull out the damage, load it on a car and recycle it. i firmly believe that at the outbreak of t

the railroad came in. they set up the land company and then they began to profit off of the sale of land within the city. so it went from forest land that was practically valueless once the trees were cut to suddenly urban real estate that they could profit off of. so they brought wealth with them and then they were able to turn around and profit from it. we see elements of that today, too, because not only did the railroad own the land and their by own the terms by which they would sell the land to somebody that wanted to build a building or whatever, a house, but they, in the days before building codes and zoning, they were able to enforce their own ideas about how they wanted the city to look. you very much sense that today here on the campus. these sturdy brick warehouses were all built under the guidelines that were imposed by the railroad. so the builders of the warehouses would meet the terms, the cash terms to buy the land from the railroad in the first place, but the railroad then dictated the des

frankly, another reason was that the railroad was built on land grants. the federal government basically divided the whole route into -- into square mile blocks and surveyed it. and the railroad like a checkerboard got every other parcel as payment for building the railroad. in seattle most of seattle had already been staked, claimed and was owned by the residents of seattle. in tacoma a much smaller population, much more vacant ground. they railroad came here because they could literally own the city, and indeed they did when they arrived here. and that's really tacoma's, the first half of its life. the railroad came in and then began to profit off the sale of land within the city. so it went from forest land that was practically valueless once the trees were cut to suddenly urban real estate that they could profit off of. so they brought wealth with them, and then they were able to turn around and profit from it. and we see elements of that today, too, because not only did the railroad own the land and thereby own the terms by which they would sell the l

-- no railroad was more important then the b&o railroad. these information panels give technical information about the rail cars. they introduce you to the personalities that were the operating personnel. each of these people have been documented. they actually existed during we have eight of these lifelike mannequins. seven of which have personalities. three of them have the actual faces of the characters we are portraying. this is john somer. he worked in the realm word. -- he worked in the rail yard. he was a german interest. the workforce of the b and o railroad was heavily laden with german and irish immigrants. yard man, he had the most dangerous job on the railroad. at that time, there was a lincoln penn system. they had to stand between the locomotive and elkhart, pulling and dropping pins. these are people who lost hands, feet, and likes more often than anyone else. the characters portrayed in this .xhibition we were able to documents specific people who had specific jobs during the war years or interacted with the railroad. as the

we're in the railroad exhibit. as automobiles sp airplanes were the key transportation technology of the 20th century. the rail yoed was the major technology of the 19th century. it's not an exaggeration it was the equal of an astronaut. what we have here are railroad locomotives that tell the story of railroad in the united states from the earliest day ins the 1830s. to the 1920s. behind me is our earliest example. a replica of the 1831 locomotive and car on the moe hawk and hudson railroad. built in 1892. this gives us an idea of what steam locomotives and trains look like in the 1820s and 1830s. the moe hawk and hudson located nd new york state and became a part of a railroad known as the new york central. one of the largest in the united states. railroads in the 1830s were small and local affairs. they might run 15, 20 miles between a couple cities. some had grander ambition of connecting the ocean with the great lakes or with the mississippi river. event we we got to the point. it took a few decades to grow int

central, one of the largest railroads in the united states. railroads in the 1830s were very small, very local affairs. they might run perhaps 15, 20 miles between a couple of cities. some of them had grander ambitions of connecting, saving atlantic ocean with great lakes, mississippi river. eventually we got to that point but it took a few decades for local systems to kind of coalesce and grow into each other to form what would be a comprehensive national network. people are always kind of shocked to see this locomotive and especially the cars. they think those cars back there as stage coaches on steel wheels. that's basically exactly what they are. it took a few years to develop the standard railroad coach as we know it today. of course when the railroad was introduced they use the technology they knew. stage coaches worked fairly well to start with. you could get a number of people on them. they tended to rock and roll down the road, as they did over the road for that matter. railroad designers realized they could come up with a more efficie

they explored the idea of building a railroad here. and they decided that it was going to be the best way to go. so the baltimore and ohio was incorporated in 1827. the intent was to take it from baltimore to the ohio river, a journey of 382 miles. &o .5 years to complete. it's the 19th century equivalent of the moonshot, because they theovercome steep grades, allegheny mountains, untried technology, really when you think about everything that is involved with it, it was quite a feat. the look of a by me -- the locomotive behind me was built -- and it mimics the tom thumb, the first steam engine else in the united states. a very unique piece designed by peter guber, if you ever -- designed by peter cooper. what he ended up doing was building something very similar to what was behind us, he the tom thumb, while successful by couldg a steam engine operate, wasn't successful in the manufacturing world. they couldn't turn them out fast enough. what he did do was prove that steam power could be used on the baltimore and ohio's track with its

. >> the b&o railroad museum in baltimore is called the birthplace of the american railroad. american history tv visited the museum to learn about and industry that began in 1827 with train cars pulled by horses rather than steam engines. >> my name is dave shackelford. i am the chief curator here at the b&o railroad museum, the baltimore and ohio. this is one of the premier railroad museums in the united states. it's also the birthplace of american railroading. railroading began in 1827. the b&o was in continuous operation until 1986 and is a legacy now. its track is basically formed with csx today. the museum is 40 acres and five buildings. the 1884 roundhouse is the jewel. inside the round house are some of the most significant pieces in our collection. we have a rolling stock locomotive collection of approximately 180 pieces. the roundhouse is filled with some of the most unique, world-class, one-of-a-kind locomotives you are ever going to find anywhere. railroading began in the united states in maryland, the baltimore and ohio was the first common carrier, the first to ca

we withdrew to the railroad dam. general shores was under the believe that kearney would advanced with him, but he had failed to do so. -- do so." as we began to explore the early attacks against jackson's offensive line at second manassas, i hope one thing that is sticking out about the federal plan is that each and every time, these units going in are going in on their own hook. jackson's line in his entirety has yet to be pressed in the full federal of antigen numbers. kearneyhad general fails to a dance? -- failed to advance? impact on significant the left of jackson's line. especially ap hill's front. attacks hadhese broken through jackson's offense. for example, the 82nd ohio had temporarily broken jackson's line in an area known as the dump. the morningpants in attacks on august 29, historians contend that had kearney assisted, had he supported advance, jackson may have been pushed out of his defensive position. was his line a good defensive stand after all? this general, pictured on the left, reported that "se

the railroads following them. led liberty with the school book in her hand, trailing the telegraph wire. but the problem is what is not there. there's no united states army. there's no federal government. the indians retreat because the american military forced them. the railroad advanced because the government subsidies, and the railroads don't follow. they lead. the settlers come because the railroads recruit them to sell land. virtually everything that symbolize is has nothing do do with the way the country actually developed. the other thing to keep in mind, and i say this even though i'm a western schÖpf nist,er is that in the schÖpf nist, there's a lot more land than people. if you look back the population of the west throughout the period i'm talking about is going to be very, very sparse. in 1890 the collective population of chicago, new york, and brooklyn, exceeded the 2.8 million people who lived west of the 100th meridian. and if you took san francisco out of the equation, the new york and brooklyn alone

the railroad was crucial to his overall success. this movement mirrored his belief in a limited strategy and consequently his operations during the chattanooga campaign supported that belief, whether by design or not. his operations played into the strength of the confederate cavalry and the weakness of his own and demonstrated the competitions of relying on the railroad for supplies. that complications of relying on the railroad for supplies. even had middle tennessee or east tennessee or north alabama abounded with -- he was unwilling to live off the land. he strove for good discipline over military success, which meant his army could only move as fast as repair crews could rebuild the bridges and railroads. john beatty said he was moving the master policy -- no hurry, take your time. his conciliatory attitude also reflected his limited view of war. not only did he issue and enforce orders against foraging, he also put his men on half rations. -- soldiers, it appeared he was less concerned with their welfare than the welfare of the

that normally will be the railroad. it will be amtrak. in this case probably union pacific. it may be union representatives. the federal railroad administration will also hook up with the safety board's investigation and run a parallel investigation so to speak for regulatory violations. those guys will get together and start inspecting each of their aspects of each of their areas. >> are you able, russell, to when you go to a scene like this -- and i assume you're able to see on television what the accident scene looks like. are you able to start ruling things out at least fairly quickly? >> yeah, some things will be obvious and some things not. generally speaking even though you might not think something's a factor in the accident, you might shelf it but you'll still keep it in the back of your mind because it could crop up later on when you got more information off the event recorder and as more data comes in and facts come in. >> let me go through some of those experts that you talked about and if you can give us a better idea of what some of the possibilities are that th

and larry mann, who helped write the federal railroad safety act in 1970. larry, what jumped out when you saw what happened yesterday? >> several things jumped out. one is had there been two competent crew members on the locomotive, if there had been distraction, if there had been some reason for the engineer not to be alert. the second crew person could have and would have warned the engineer to slow down. that's one thing i would hope the ntsb would focus on. the safety benefits of having two qualified persons on the locomotive. the other thing that jumped out to me is fatigue. fatigue is probably the largest single safety factor in the rail industry that causes the most accidents and injuries nationwide. i'm sure that the ntsb will investigate the workweek of this engineer to determine whether or not he was fatigued. i know that in many, many accidents throughout the country, this is a primary issue that causes accidents and incidents. >> it absolutely causes accidents. when you think about cars on the road. for you, it has to be frustrated when there is

the white line is railroads. ou can see how hunter harrison's presence made this in or miss difference. -- enormous difference. you can draw a somewhat morbid conclusion that the blue line has further to fall today because he is no longer just ill , he is no longer with us and it's up to the new ceo at csx to live through his legacy and that is a tall order. david: i didn't know him the way you knew him, but i will tell you why he is near and dear to my heart. we in the media tend to get caught up with the visionaries. we don't pay enough attention to the people that do the blocking and tackling of cost control and making tough decisions that that you are right, often are not popular, but do return value to shareholders, especially in a mature business. xy as something as unse railroading. he was the guy who bill ackman used to turn around cp in a proxy fight that was enormously profit -- rewarding to shareholders and a disciple of bill ackman is the guy that brought him to csx. this was exceedingly controversial,

this comes as the railroad administration has considered the most safety ticketed event in more than a. in this climate these days, there's a lot of move against de regulation, against moving away from some sort of a regulatory polys here. this is one that, as you see, congress called for it. it hasn't been put into place yet and that doesn't do a lot for the famil ies of those who were killed or injured, not just there, but philadelphia and other accidents on the rails over the last couple of years. today the justice department rolling out two violent task forces. shar lolt, north carolina, one of two areas where the task forces will be working, they will work on , kidnappings, extortion they'll work with the fbi and local law enforcement. the fact is some people just have to be prosecuted. i wish it weren't so. i wish we had better solutions for the problem than jail you but we don't. my experience tells me and so i appreciate your work. >> now the justice department also announced 40 new assistant us attorney positions to prosecute violent crime. one position here in d.c. three ar

the railroad industry lost a giant over the weekend with the passing of hunter harrison. hree railroad carriers during his five decade career, and was in the middle of another one. he will be replaced on an interim basis by jim foot. joining us is senior analyst lee class go -- lee --. wasas a railroad legend, he also a disruptor, wasn't he? guest: he certainly was. he was credited in part in turning around canadian national. he really did as he helped to transform canadian national two of the most profitable radios -- profitable railroads, probably one of the most profitable industries out there from a company that current a couple hundred basis points in margins to mid 40's operating margins, which is pretty impressive for a sleepy industry like the railroad industry. he really put the railroad industry out of its long dormant -- nap and turned it into the great cash flo -- great cash flow generators they are today. he: of course at csx famously held up for a salary that was $80 million, and shareholders deemed that to be worth it. what was it that he could bring to the

well, the railroad arms, the smart train railroad arms crossing are stuck in the down position plus apparentlythe purple means bumper to bumper, literally stopped. red means very slow and go. 37 is just jammed from vallejo all the way to lake veil highway. take a look at the green sensors across the richmond/san rafael bridge. it's early enough i suggest that's what you try. we'll check on an accident south 101 when we come back. >> if you are made fun of, don't let it bother you. >> coming up a tennessee boy's tearful plea posted on facebook. >> the big name stars now reaching out to help. also ahead -- >> restaurant kitchens can be loud and chaotic. the story of a local pizzeria where their silen >>> wake up this monday morning hoping for better news for our friends down south. no, we had to add another 24 hours to the critical fire danger. red flag warning for the area you see in red which is about 8.6 million people and that smoke is still coming our way but after today hopefully it will clear up. 81 down there. redding, 69. sunny with high clouds and 72 in monterey. 52 in tahoe. you think

to find themselves on johnston's left flank on the railroad line the first week of may 1864. this same week that lee and grant are slugging it out in the wilderness in virginia. now it was the job of wheeler's calvary to alert johnston to this move, but he was busy north of dalton, on the other side of this, looking for an opportunity to launch a dramatic calvary charge. as a result, mcpherson was nearly to -- of the four johnston saw the threat to his left as it brigades marching in a quick step to block him. they got there just in time. he hesitated and the battle, fought three days in mid-may, johnson's army held on to the line of the railroad. he also had to give up those strong defensive positions on rocky face ridge. that railroad, by the way, a single track line from chatanooga to atlanta was the fibrous core of this entire ampaign. oth armies needed it for supply and support. sherman needed it to advance, johnston needed it to keep his soldiers supplied and fed; it as critical to both sides. johnston knew if sherman broke that thread he would have to give up north geo

new questions about a safety system that was installed on those tracks, but not yet activated by the railroad. >>> the republican congress poised to file an extensive rewrite. the entire tax code today. the bill is not so popular. we'll break down the final numbers and what they mean for you. >>> massive tax reform, corporate tax cuts really, what it boils down to. welcome back to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> and i'm christine romans. tuesday morning, 31 minutes past the hour. federal crash investigators on the ground this morning to probe that deadly derailment of an amtrak passenger train. we know at least three people were killed. about 100 people injured when all but one of the 14 cars jumped the track. overnight the ntsb confirmed speed was a critical factor. >> preliminary indications are that the train was traveling at 80 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour track. >> there are also questions about positive train control. that's the technology that slows down trains and senses it's going too fast. it wasn't yet activated, even though the owner of the track has installed positive

one partially blocking the vta railroad tracks. a bus bridge in place between the orchard station and river oaks. heads up there. a problem on north 101 near 680 and some of your drive times if you're heading out right now. mike? >> remember, he was one of the hyenas in "lion king." he was great in "tin cup." quite a change since the '70s. a look at your dry december. hi, everybody. disney is the parent company of abc 7 news. remember the second and third? hard to remember because it didn't rain much but we did have measurable rain. it is dry from the 4th to the 20th which is my accuweather seven-day forecast. anywhere from 45% to 73% of average. we need a lot more rain than we've gotten. >> updating breaking news on the peninsula. a car chase ends in a dramatic crash at a local country club. >> and remembering mayor ed lee. the woman who jumped into action to help the mayor moments after he collapsed at a san francisco safeway. >>> plus, at the live desk, fnew reaction to doug jones' win and roy moore's loss in the senate race. why

. >> from the railroads the monopoly is dominated there the landscape using the market power to fix pricesl trade through organizations called trust. >> they had expensive of office suites and said we are in charge. >> advocates of the antitrust laws use the economy to be successful and the sherman antitrust act became the law of the land making it illegal to restrict trade or to form monopolies. >> every trustor contract any way of controlling the market is illegal. >> be tried to level the playing field for everybody so everybody could have a chance. >> american history professor claims under the administration of teddy roosevelt trust busting the breaking up of monopolies by the government was a household trade the target was the railroad but then came standard oil. >> this has been overstated how much it has changed that power relationship but certainly made people look to washington to regulate business. >> one judge changed the rules by introducing economics saying it doesn't matter how big the businesses are as long as they offer low prices to the masses that paved the way for wal-m

a guest curator at the railroad museum. this is the largest civil war railroad

but the railroads, particularly the freight railroads, are making significant amount of money and they can't complain that they can't afford positive train control. the railroad industry, of course, amtrack is another issue. congress doesn't adequately fund amtrack. if they would, then we wouldn't have this issue on the passenger side. but we do. >> let me stop you there for a second. even if this had been in place, could this have stopped the accident that we saw yesterday? >> theoretically, yes. the equipment is such that it's global positioning satellite technology which will stop a train if it is exceeding the standard mileage requirement of that track. >> but it has to be activated, obviously, and has to be there so that it can be used. larry man, appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. >>> is the special counsel's russia probe coming to a close? the white house sure thinks so. sources close to bob mueller's team however say the investigation is far from over. details ahead. >>> president trump slamming a new report that says he considered pulling the nomination for neil gorsuch.

>> well, first of all, let me just say that hunter was one of the greatest railroad executives of the anyone who knew him is just saddened by his loss he was a tour de force i got to the point if you spent more than 24 hours with him you try to be objective as an analyst. if i spent more than 24 hours with him i would not write for more than 24 hours after being with him because he was that charismatic of a figure. our thoughts and prayers are with his family. csx, he brought in one of his chief disciples from the cnn, canadian national days, jim foote. they understand his philosophy and his legacy will live on. truth be known, his leg dwa si lives on at the canadian national and canadian pacific. the bottom line is he wrote the book, rewrote the book on -- literally wrote several books on railroading and a testament to his life the railroads are all changed in the way they operate their businesses. >> it is a big loss for the industry as you so eloquently highlighted there. would you stick with the stock right now? >> yeah. continue to see positive things for the csx. many of the bas

looking at some of the stops along that route and how serious finishes today at the end of one of the railroads in the western german city of this book it's home to the largest inland port in europe and then three point seven million shipping containers a year making it an ideal hob for china's new silk road project and that railing bring freight here from china is already up and running it's currently served by over two dozen trains a week the transit time of around two weeks is some four times shorter than the original sera the traditional sea route giving the rail link a competitive advantage because in trade time really is money. but europe's largest in one port most containers arrive by ship but not all. it might look and spectacular but this is one end of the new silk road a freight rail route stretching eleven thousand kilometers and connecting duis book with chongqing in central china. instead of silk and spices typical cargoes today include how full the electronics and textiles. over the through the balance mostly to the we're part of the largest connotation in central europe. the chin

lines and changes were supposed to be completed by the end of 2015 and after all complaints from the railroad company congress decided to delay three more years. the big difference was because the system was not working price dog was million over 2 years and tonight experts in the transportation system says every day this system is not in place is putting passengers lives a >> it's a slow-moving tarring tote implement. and immediate need. and as more accidents in particular happen right we saw in philly two years ago, 2 23015, right now, 2017. these are coming a continued need in generations and the need will not dictate to getting project done. >> and why does that leave us now. companies have until end of 018 now to immet ptc. despite that fact the federal railroad administration saying this is single most important safety rail development in more than a century. still not in place. america's rare roldz tonight, shawn. >> thank you, fits. >> a registered stex offender from par mar is in fred ring county jail accuse of sexually asoughting i boy he met on online. reyes after his recent arrest

what they know about what the cause of the train derailment there. a railroad engineer expert is on the phone with us right now. goss, you've been looking at these pictures with us, thank you for jumping on the phone with us. what can you tell us about what you are seeing and what can you make of it? >> i have to start with all i talk about, derailment 101. there are three things are going to put a train on the ground. something wrong with the track, the equipment, or the way it's operated. there was a train up in north dakota that derailed, a train that was carrying crude oil. it was a broken axle. the philadelphia crash may of 2015 was train handling, the guy was going around a curve too fast. a wide gauge on the track, broken rail, a train went over it. all those, amtrak, railroads are going to do is start where the train ended up and walk backwards to see where it left the track. it's going to happen a half mile before and it finally crashed over the bridge. >> sandra: when we look at these pictures, we are still trying to wrap our minds around how many car

steve ditmeyer, former administrator of the federal railroad administration. let's bring you up to speed with what you're looking at now. pictures of i-5 in washington state. very close to tacoma. an amtrak train you're looking at derailed. this is the town of dupont. part of it, as you can see, has fallen on to the road. state officials say all lanes, all southbound lanes of i-5 are blocked near mounts road. this is in pierce county. we have crews on the way to the scene. there was a reporter on the train. he's from king. he says that there were dozens of people on board the train. again, we're trying to figure out whether this is the first train of a -- the first day of a new route or the last day of an old route because they were doing a switchover on the route. there were dozens of people on the train. that's the information we have at the moment. i'm checking in with our control room, whether we want to go to the local coverage on it. we'll continue -- >> as you can see, not just the rail, the road below, i-5, is a major road in the area. you've got people

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the average railroad worker has the benefit of a $20,000 investment in equipment.se coolie's equipment is worth only $.10. with constant improvement in expensive tools and the skill to use them, the value of any man's labor can be multiplied many times. [honking] >> naturally, the people in this country, who invest their savings with industry, expect dividends. no dividends, no investments. without new capital each year to finance new plants, tools, and equipment, labor and management would soon find themselves in pretty bad shape. >> yeah, without capital to buy new tools, i might not do so good. but look what a new invention did to my grandpa. for 25 years, he knocks his brains out in the wagon works. then, along comes the gas buggy. [explosion] >> need i tell you what happened to grandpa? ♪ >> the history of our country proves that new inventions create thousands of jobs for everyone they displace, so it was not long before your grandfather had a better job, had more pay for less work. our industrial progress is largely the result of the competitive struggle bet

what appears to be a fire on the railroad tracks and this is burning close to a neighborhood, a subdivisionof homes. you can see how close the homes were. we understand this is happening on the railroad track and did not spread to homes. we are working to try and find out more details of this fire. as soon as we get them we'll bring them to you. >>> and breaking news from san francisco where the fbi has stopped a terror plot targeting pier 36. henry lee is joining us with the latest details. >> reporter: we're here at busy pier 39 in san francisco. and we've talked to many tourists along the route. and many are relieved that a suspect was arrested by the fbi on suspicion of trying to carry out a terror attack the week before christmas. this complaint was filed early today. and authorities were able to thwart the plot with the help of undercover fbi employees. the undercover employee initiated contact with jamison this past monday. he asked if he could get pictures of the trip they were going to take for christmas. and he depicted a map of pier 39. very clearly the evidence out that had the

focusing that in the railroad junction town. the defeat of mcclellan's army on the peninsula and lee's subsequent movement into piedmont, virginia, caused the war department to order burnside and his coast division old dominion. prior to the army's arrival, burnside met with lincoln and stanton in washington between july 22 and july 27th, and to his surprise, they offered him command of the army. burnside declined protesting that mcclellan was really the better general, and that his failure on the peninsula stemmed from bad luck. not incompetence. lincoln reluctantly accepted the response but marked the general for greater things in the future. burnside moved his command now styled the ninth core, and shifted his men to the fredericksburg area, and the war deference i forwarded two this divisions northwest to join john colts arming -- army at the second manassas battle. the war department charged burnside there in fredericksburg, john hennessey works in the headquarters, the chatham structure there on the north side of the river,

really important, because by 1869, after the war, the transcontinental railroad was finished and that took even more settlers from the east to the west and resume ugly back again, although i am not sure about -- and presumably back again. i'm am not sure about that. before -- whatt was important before, the maid of americans lived in those areas where they were going. development of a brand-new american religion, which is interesting, it really becomes dominant and important in this particular period. when i mentioned the list of names i could have put brigham young, as well as everyone else. imagine him meeting emily dickinson. began in newually york state, as many of you probably know. right in upstate new york in a place called the birth over district because of the series of revivals that have been sweeping that particular part of the country and went west. -- that is part of this period and can't go without saying is the antislavery movement, which was gathering more momentum in the years after the, particularly after mexican war ended in 1948 when the united states became a much

his violent for parties or dances and so forth and he also would do physical labor when some of the railroads coming into town and he worked on those. during the summer there was work driving people around hotels and so. in 1830 there were about 35 african-americans in saratoga. saratoga at the time was a village. by 1840 it had doubled to about 190 so it had doubled in the population overall saratoga springs was a couple thousand people so basically close to 10% were black at the time. not too much before the northup screen here there had been a process of gradual emancipation in new york state a lot of people have been slaves were freed and they wanted to try something different and they would come to a place like saratoga springs and maybe get to be a waiter or do other service jobs in the industry just to help establish their identity now that they were free people. solomon's father was named [inaudible] and he had been a slave to a ship's captain by the name of captain henry northup in rhode island. captain henry was during the revolution and decided to come over to eastern new york stat

one is partially blocking the vta railroad track. the other a big rig blocking the right lane.oth in the same vicinity. called for tow trucks. a bus bridge in place between the orchard stations and bear oaks. keep that in mine if you're had heing on the vta this morning. we'll update that for you when we come back. you can use 237 to get around this. >>> sue, thank you. the robot that patrols outside san francisco's spca's mission campus could be out of a job. the city ordered the spca to keep canine, which is what they call the robot, off sidewalks or they'll face a $1,000 a day fine. and here's the reason. the rebougobot had been operati without a permit. mission was to deter homeless encampments and crime by recording audio and video 24/7 and sending that information to police. >>> we are hearing from a south carolina woman bitten by a shark on the last day of her honeymoon. evan was recording his wife while she was swimming with sharks in the bahamas as part of an excursion. she extends her arm and that's when the shark takes a bite. sarah says she thought it was her husban

congress has ordered the nation's railroads to install this technology but under pressure from the railroad15 deadline was pushed to the end of next year. >> national transportation safety board has been begging the railroad industry to implement positive train control. every time it gets close our congress pushes it back. it pushes it back and keeps doing that and realistically thousands of lives we've lost because we don't have this positive train control. >> another possible factor human error. federal investigators say at the time of the accident the engineer operating the train was helping a conductor become more familiar with the new route. remember, this was this train's maiden run between seattle and portland. given it was traveling 50 miles over the speed limit there is concern the engineer may have been distracted. investigators want to interview him and the rest of the crew in the next few days. still lots of activity at the scene of the derailment. it looks more like a construction site than freeway as crews work to remove a locomotive and make sure the pavement and overpasses a

. >> hunter was one of the greater railroad executives of the generation, and anyone who knew him is saddened. he brought in one of his chief disciples from the canadian national days, jim-foot, many others who understand hi philosophy, and his legacy will live on. harrison is the father of precision scheduled railroading, a strategy that streamlines operation to improve service while cutting costs. he literally wrote the book on it and used the method to remaker two ra march, he sought again, amid activist says pressure. s speculation about his health twirl. in october he ire jim-foot, who has since taken over as actin ceo, but following summertime service problems that has drawn the ire of regulators, and with no succession plan officially in place. harrison's passing leaves investors asking what's next? >> able of the hard decision, of of that had been done already. i'm sure jim-foot is more than capable of following through with the ideology and the principles of precision railroading. >>-foo says the big changes have a turnaround under way, and investors may have to wait until e

you said that meant there needed to be constant communication. >> the federal railroad administrationpartment of transportation is asking for us to get a map of the entire global positioning system, we really need, we need to have communication across all of these systems. i always call -- time to put the black box in the top. we sometimes need to put the black box in the cloud for planes, trains got them and automobiles. >> harris: i want to jump in because this just happened. the governor's office, washington state governor has just tweeted out "a state of emergency relating to the amtrak 501 response." i want to repeat that for people tuning in, 1:43 on the east coast. national transportation safety board do to have a 2:30:00 p.m. eastern news conference regarding the catastrophe that played out on interstate five as an amtrak train went off the track and onto the interstate. the governor now declaring a state of emergency, we know other trains along this line and a nearby lines have been shut down and canceled for today. this has been a widening situation in terms of people it imp

but certainly when you're looking at upgrading track, there's specific requirements that the federal railroad of track and if you're going to operate high speed, in this case, up to 79 miles an hour passenger service, the tracks have to be inspected and have to be able to support that kind of speed of train. you can also look at the curvature of the track and look at where they might have speed limits because you can't go 79 everywhere. they're going to have lower speeds in certain parts of the track. you've got to pay attention to that as well. >> in terms of data, we have recorders and we might have a forward-facing camera here, deborah, quickly? >> yeah, very consistent in rail events. you get a recorder, there wasn't a post-crash fire. they should be able to download the data and forward-facing videos. you can see any issues with respect to the track or environmental conditions. >> deborah hersman, thanks for being with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> up nerkxt, the palin family feud. what happened when "360" continues. run, jthe power of in to tempur-pedic sleep with our 90-day tria