Broadcast: April 15, 1936

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Added: Apr 19 2018

As the American cavalcade passes in review we realize again the tremendous part played by the railroads in the building of America. But back of the railroads were men, dreamers, planners, doers, the men who helped open up the country, made it accessible to millions, bridged its rivers, tunneled its mountains and conquered its deserts, men who nothing could daunt in the performance of their task. On a June morning in 1855 we find two people in the mountains of Massachusetts…