The United States operations in world war one. We also have the pleasure of being joined and one of the museums memorial esteemed members theyve. He will speak about his ample experiences with railways and the midwest and his connection to the museum memorial. Without further ado please help me in welcoming, dave everett. applause thank you very much camille. What a pleasure to join you today. We have a great guest and doctor rudy daniels who will join us. Ive been with the Railroad Industry for about 23 years now. I initially started with cbs x, and i have quite an experience with the military as well, i went to west point in 88 and i was nine years tactical commander and then joined csx railroad. Was there five years. Then i came to kansas city, 14 years. I was able to make it up to the rank of chief operating officer there. I had a wide variety of experiences, both in the u. S. , midwest and in mexico. A lot of the development there, even down to panama. The pandemic canal railway.
Next historian , Rudolph Daniels talks about his book, the Great Railroad war United States Railway Operations during world war i. He argues that the ability to move troops, equipment and ammunition at an accelerated rate helped allied forces win wwi. The National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri hosted the event. Hello, welcome everyone to your National World war i museum and memorial. Im camille kulig, program specialist. And i am thrilled to have everyone joining us here this afternoon, whether you have braved the rain, congratulations you made it. Or whether you are warm at home watching through our livestream. Today, we have the pleasure of hosting dr. Rudy daniels , who is going to present his lecture, the Great Railroad war United States Railway Operations during wwi. Today, we also have the pleasure of being joined by one of the museum and memorials esteemed board members, dave ebbrecht. And he is going to speak more about his ample experiences with rail
Including a ira allen saw the potential of Burlington Bay as a court sitting. Lake champlain flows north a Lake Champlain flows into the st. Lawrence which gives at burlington, interestingly enough, even though it is an inland place, access to the ocean. Saw that ands became interested. The area did not take off despite the attempts by ira importantake this an place by putting the university here, making it the shire town of Chittenden County with the courts and so on. 1820d not take off until three whitney Champlain Canal was finished which connected the southern and of Lake Champlain to the hudson river. It opened up all of those markets to the south of vermont. One historian has said that before 1823, Lake Champlain tipped north. After 1823, it tipped south. Burlington grew tremendously in the 1820s. Having said that it grew tremendously, the population in 1830, 7 years after the canal only 3000 but in 1800 it had only been about 1000. So it was about a prosperous it was a prosperou
New york city, or to other areas around the country. It was built for shelburne, however, it served Passenger Rail service up until 1953. When that stopped at that point, Passenger Rail service in this region. It was then given to the Shelburne Museum for posteritys sake, to allow people to be able to see it. It is exhibited with much of the Railroad Memorabilia that is typically seen in these stations. It was part of our founders collection at the time. It was moved overland from the center of shelburne here to the museum, which is not far away. It is probably a little less than a mile, one of the shortest moves that had to happen for the building of the Shelburne Museum. This is a traveling Passenger Rail car, the grand isle, built in 1899 by the palace wagner car company just before it changed ownership to the Pullman Company at the time. The president of the Rutland Railroad, dr. William seward webb, also had use of this car until about 1915 with the Rutland Railroad as a Passenger
Availability of the webbs to be able to travel as they wished, to go to their summer home, the to go to their summer home and down to new york city mayor , and to other areas around of the country. It was billed for shelburne, however, and is served Passenger Rail service up until 1953. When that stopped at that point, Passenger Rail service in this region. And it was then given to the museum for posteritys sake, to allow people to be able to see it. It is exhibited with much of the Railroad Memorabilia that is seen in these stations. Of the founders collection at the time. It was moved overland from shelburne here to the museum, which is not far away. It is probably a little less than a mile, one of the shortest moves for the building of the shelburne museum. This is a traveling Passenger Rail car at the grand isle, built in 1899 by the palace wagner car company just before it changed ownership to the Pullman Company at that time. The president of the Rutland Railroad, dr. William sew