| Posted by Mike on December 30, 2014 | |
American made right!
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Carnegie made his fortune inventing mast production bast furnaces for steel. Early railroads were made of wood rails with a thin steel rail on top. (Ciivil War paintings show these being destroyed by troops.) Thus, Carnigie helped build the modern railroads in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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The art piece I had in mind is a post-Civil War engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie 1868. It is part of Sherman's March to the Sea Campaign. Here you see wooden rails with steel on top of the rail being removed by Union troops. See "Sherman's March to the Sea" Wikipedia. Most rails were of iron and were heated by troops and twisted around trees. These were known as "Sherman's Neckties."
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