Posts Tagged ‘Railroad’

[video] Transcontinental Railroad Completed As Chinaman’s Gold Plated Femur Driven Into Ground

The Onion looks back at Alabama’s first desegregated mass suicide, the historic V.E. Day Speech from FDR’s rotting corpse, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad with the gold-plated femur of a Chinaman. Tweet This Post

BLOOMINGTON, IN—Nearing the end of a heated game of Monopoly, Taylor Davis stopped short of purchasing his fourth railroad, realizing that nobody really takes cross-country trains these days.

BLOOMINGTON, IN—Nearing the end of a heated game of Monopoly, Taylor Davis stopped short of purchasing his fourth railroad, realizing that nobody really takes cross-country trains these days. Tweet This Post

‘Underground Railroad’ Carries Slaves From Brooklyn to Manhattan

NEW YORK—It was learned Monday that for many decades, an "underground railroad" has been in operation in New York City, transporting thousands of slaves from Brooklyn to Manhattan each day through an intricate series of subterranean tunnels. Tweet This Post