...of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practised, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." In 1833, a man in Connecticut thanked God that he lived "in a hilly country, where it was impossible...

...the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Yet the work went on, the road was completed to Worcester in 1835, to Springfield in 1839, and to Albany...

...the whole territory of Massachusetts ; and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." The Legislature did not treat the report quite so disrespectfully as Mr. Buckingham had done ; but...

...the whole territory of Massachusetts ; and which, if practicable, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Capt. Marryatt, the celebrated English novelist, while riding by stage through Western Massachusetts,...

...the inability of the farmers to draw their produce to the market. every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." Similar incredulity was encountered by Gridley Bryant, when he was seeking aid to establish his Granite...

...the whole territory of Massachusetts ; and which, if practicable, every person of common-sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." The Legislature did not treat the report quite so disrespectfully as Mr. Buckingham had done; but they...

...of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practised, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." In 1833, a man in Connecticut thanked God that he lived "ID a hilly country, where it wan impossible...

...attractive only than Lenox and Stockbridge, it possesses the finest countryhouse in Berkshire — a mansion illustrating the affection the New England...Hoosac tunnel, so as to provide a competing line. Coining up from the Hudson Iliver at Albany, this great railway crosses the Taghkanic range to Pittsfield,...

...the whole territory of Massachusetts; and which, if practicable, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon." When the idea of constructing the Old Colon}' railroad was first advanced a public meeting was held...

...zealously pushed was then generally derided as chimerical, the Boston Courier of that time saying the road could only be built at " an expense of little less...Boston to the moon." Yet it was built, and prospered so much that, to break its profitable monopoly, Massachusetts had afterwards to bore the costly Hoosac...