09-29-2010, 07:07 PM
[quote="P5se Camelback"]HAH!
Today there would be a Congressional investigation, the Government would have seized control of the railroad, the deceased would have had hero's burials, their families would have been remunerated to the point that no descendant for generations would have to toil for a living, the two little kids with the instruments would have a band with state-or-the-art instruments, a recording contract and studio time to write many "worker" songs about the event ... and we'd still be bickering over whether the correct permits had been pulled, in the right order, by the correct contractors and that all required fees had been paid to the proper governmental bureaucracies for final approval to commence work on putting that memorial placque out in that field! [quote]
Also today:
Twenty individuals would have recorded the event on their cell phones which would have ended up on the Evening News. Some would be posted on YouTube and go viral with clips ending up on some sort of "Reality Show". Leno and Letterman would crack jokes during thier monologs. The Mythbusters would do a whole episode tryng to bust it, but in "true Mythbusters fashion" the results would be the same. Two exploding locomotives.
"Don't try this at home...We're what you call..Experts"
Today there would be a Congressional investigation, the Government would have seized control of the railroad, the deceased would have had hero's burials, their families would have been remunerated to the point that no descendant for generations would have to toil for a living, the two little kids with the instruments would have a band with state-or-the-art instruments, a recording contract and studio time to write many "worker" songs about the event ... and we'd still be bickering over whether the correct permits had been pulled, in the right order, by the correct contractors and that all required fees had been paid to the proper governmental bureaucracies for final approval to commence work on putting that memorial placque out in that field! [quote]
Also today:
Twenty individuals would have recorded the event on their cell phones which would have ended up on the Evening News. Some would be posted on YouTube and go viral with clips ending up on some sort of "Reality Show". Leno and Letterman would crack jokes during thier monologs. The Mythbusters would do a whole episode tryng to bust it, but in "true Mythbusters fashion" the results would be the same. Two exploding locomotives.
"Don't try this at home...We're what you call..Experts"
Torrington, Ct.
NARA Member #87
I went to my Happy Place, but it was closed for renovations.
NARA Member #87
I went to my Happy Place, but it was closed for renovations.