One Train Fact For Every US President

[@kacamac]

Good luck to everyone's mental health and energy for the next 48 hours or so

[@bruhz_089]

72 hours* probably

[@uncinarynin]

you mean 4+ years

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I was at the polling place all day working, so I didn't get to see this until late at night. Being an election inspector on Long Island, it was a long day, but it was honestly a fulfilling and educational experience. It was left out about FDR that a railcar called the Marco Polo was fitted to assist Roosevelt with his limited mobility. It was used by FDR as governor of New York and during his tenure as President. It was later replaced by the heavily armored Ferdinand Magellan, which was also used by Truman. FDR also frequently stopped at a secret station in NYC under the Waldorf Astoria, though contrary to popular belief, the station wasn't built at his request. The platform was not originally intended to be used as a station. It was built during the construction of Grand Central Terminal in the 1910s, and served the terminal's power station and heating plant. The platforms at tracks 61/63 and 53/54 were originally used to carry ashes away. The power plant was demolished in 1930 to make way for the hotel. There was a baggage car there that made many people believe it was FDR's personal train car that transported his limousine, which is a myth. Grand Central used the Baggage Car 002 to transport the rigging for a hundred-ton capacity electric double-ended crane in Grand Central’s tunnels before being left on Track 61. When you visit the WTC Transportation Complex, there is something kept intact from the attack at the WTC terminus of the E train. As you use the passageway to get to the Oculus from the E, there's a set of doors you pull open. One of these doors is spray-painted with "X MATF 1 / 9 13". "X MATF 1 / 9 13", spray-painted by the Beverly, MA-based Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 who were on the site on September 13, 2001 (hence, 9 13). The X was in a box, and X was marked if an area was dangerous. As a condition for getting funding for the Oculus, under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, PATH had to preserve the pre-9/11 passageway's original design (the last surviving piece of the 1970s WTC station concourse). This passageway reopened in December 2016, but this door was kept with the spray-paint, and a glass case was put on both sides of it with a plaque talking about the door's significance. Grant unfortunately didn't attend the Golden Spike ceremony. Grant wasn't there because simply he had just been sworn in as president and Civil War reconstruction was still underway. The guy with the beard shown at the ceremony in the middle at 3:37 is California Governor Leland Stanford, who was the one to drive the spike. Though Grant still very much played a role in the Golden Spike happening. But Grant DID attend a different golden spike ceremony. The golden spike for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in Montana in 1883. The final "golden spike" driven was not actually made of gold, but was the same spike that was driven to begin the construction of the Northern Pacific in Carlton, Minnesota, thirteen years earlier. The spike was driven by Henry Villard, Grant, and Henry C. Davis, who had helped drive the first spike. You can visit the site today off Interstate 90 in Independence Creek, Montana. During Coolidge's three months in South Dakota, he made visits to Native American reservations, mines, farmer's picnics, fairs, church socials, rodeos, did a lot of fishing, presided over the official dedication of Mount Rushmore, and announced he wouldn’t be running for president in 2028. He understood their need for infrastructure while bouncing over the ungraded roads, and so he wanted to stimulate the region’s economy by publicizing their attractions. Stuff I mentioned about the Hoover Nature Trail and his hometown that wasn't mentioned here, the former railroad that's now the Hoover Nature Trail is where Hoover developed an early interest in geology while collecting interesting rocks along the railroad grade, looking for fossil corals and agates. The since destroyed West Branch depot was the scene of orphaned eleven-year-old Hoover's departure for a new and uncertain life in Oregon in 1885, and where Hoover made his triumphant return as the newly nominated Republican candidate for president in 1928. And stuff I mentioned that was cut out about Carter, Plains’s 1888 railroad depot is the oldest building in Plains, and during Carter’s campaign, it became the campaign’s center. Approximately 10,000 people a day flocked to Plains to learn about Carter. It was at the Plains Depot that many state primary victories and, ultimately, the historic presidential victory were celebrated

[@Gemini.1997]

Franklin Pierce's son died right before Pierce became president by getting run over by a derailed train.

[@ClassyWhale]

@@Gemini.1997 that was too sad a fact to include 😢

[@IowaTrainGay]

Honestly was not expecting Herbert Hoover's call out. Litterally live 20mon away from there and was looking for a house near by that last year. Also, I will never understand why a certain party is so enthralled with cutting regulations; they're basicly written in blood and tears.

[@rynovoski]

You actually missed what I think are some way more interesting facts about Garfield related to railroads. When treatment did not appear to be working, he was transported by train to Elberon, New Jersey, home of the present day New Jersey Transit station. To get him to the house by the sea, where it was hoped, he would recuperate in the sea air, locals built a temporary railroad, I believe in an afternoon, but in any case very quickly, to get him there. As I understand it, there is a building in town that is built out of the railroad ties. I have not visited myself, but traveled through the station many times.

[@yeoldeseawitch]

8:47 Ronald Reagan also once received an LGB G Gauge toy train set as a donation, but since it was valued over a certain price, he legally couldn't accept it. the exact set is on display at the Thomas T. Taber Museum in Williamsport, PA

[@Token_Nerd]

I'm not screaming

[@ClassyWhale]

@@Token_Nerd I can hear you from Philadelphia

[@Rickybnsf]

1:42 Fun Fact: William Henry Harrison's house in Vincennes, IN has a former B&O mainline running right across the street from his house! No wonder he took the train to inauguration.

[@lil5713]

We are cooked for rail😭

[@randomtransitadventures]

_yes_

[@njtrainsandairplanes5355]

Well looks like California HS Rail will take even longer to get finished now

[@Thom-TRA]

Fascinating stuff! Great idea

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

¡Gracias Thom!

[@Cnw8701]

Glad my hometown got a shoutout! I'm from Dayton, Ohio and have seen the John Quincy Adams locomotive several times, and I've also ridden the LM&M. However, the train doesn't stop in Monroe, but runs through the edge of town towards Mason.

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

You became a railway version of Mr. Beat now?

[@ClassyWhale]

@@amadeosendiulo2137 yes, for today!

[@Cupertinorail]

Last of all know any Canadian railfans? There needs to be a prime minister version of this video. Yes Amtrak Joe, hint hint: Due to the Secret Service being with him. He rarely rides Amfleet cars with the public. Usually there is a specialized car for him. Just google "Joe Biden Amtrak" but he does ride Acela with other people, I think?

[@yeoldeseawitch]

Another fun fact about Harry Truman, preserved GTW northern 6325 pulled his election campaign train through the state of Michigan in 1946

[@Thatoneguynobodywatches]

6325: RETURN TO STEAM

[@Benthetrainkid]

9:34 You forgot the other PATH car that survived 9/11

[@SantaFe19484]

Nice video! You forgot to mention that Franklin Pierce was in a train wreck on the trip to his inauguration, and his son died.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

That one was a bit too dark of a fact to include in this

[@johnblair8146]

Kiss Amtrak GOODBYE.

[@JDT153]

7:00 The Ferdinand Magellan is on Display at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami, FL. I am a tour guide there and would love to give any one of you a tour !

[@ClassyWhale]

Will hit you up if I'm ever down there again!

[@Cupertinorail]

Now this is better than looking at all the heavy bias I see on social media. Aw all presidents before Jackson didn't have ride a single train. I am probably the only railfan on earth who likes it when presidents ride trains or have their own private railcars. Lincoln had a funeral train that's for sure.

[@MirasomeRailfan]

1:06 I did not expect my local tourist railroad to be mentioned, from someone in the Cincy Metro.

[@Amtk-712]

Thank you so much for this break from the god awful politics, especially since I’m from PA, I see so many adds, this is a nice break!

[@officialmcdeath]

Was that salt train the first recorded using DPUs in the Lower 48? \m/

[@TheStickCollector]

Now this is how I will vote for my president. I would eventually hope to run on bringing more trains together in this country and both reduce the debt and increase public transport funding as that will be my main running policies. A shame to see the car leaching onto most people here. That won't be at least for another decade since the minimum age requirements, but that just gives me time to appear on shows and other interactions that will lead to more popularity hopefully.

[@red2theelectricboogaloo961]

well, you're right about it not being for another decade or so. i haven't heard a thing from the GOP about funding public transit. what's more likely is that they'll be holding more funding back. well, maybe it'll make a comeback for other reasons, but this isn't a place to talk politics too much.

[@TheStickCollector]

@red2theelectricboogaloo961 well what I mainly meant was I still have at least 14 more years before I am even eligible to run anyways, but that can still hold true if there is another gop president for 1 or 2 more terms after this one. Regardless hope things can get better below the federal level.

[@red2theelectricboogaloo961]

@@TheStickCollector i guess. i just am saying because i personally really don't like trump, but i'm not going to just keep talking about that since that's not what the video is for. hey, though, if you're running for president in 14 years, it sounds like you have my vote already.

[@rwilson1197]

I find it funny Trump doesn’t own some kind of train, if for no other reasons than to put his name on it

[@Cupertinorail]

I was wondering about the john Bull but you covered that for me. Yes I just watched Love those trains on KZbin and Ulysses S Grant was hidden somewhere in their. Nixon was at BART's debut. Now as a frequent rider and public transit content creator, I can tell you BART was way ahead of it's time. George W. Bush rode a campaigning Amtrak train past my city in like IDK 2000? Trump's Transportation secretary had great reluctance providing funding for modernization of Caltrain but gave in.

[@eliaspagonis]

I prefer safety for the NYC subway after what Trump said in nassau county

[@randomtransitadventures]

_i was sleeping_

[@randomtransitadventures]

10:58 - The Stars and Stripes forever- US Navy band

[@randomtransitadventures]

dont ask how i know

[@00Zy99]

I don't know where you got these facts, but Grant was NOT at Promontory Summit. The largest political figure present was Leland Stanford, governor of California, founder of Stanford University, and executive of the Central Pacific. Hoover had other connections. He was involved in the refugee assistance to Europe after WWII, which included the Friendship Train. Interestingly, Nixon set Amtrak up to fail. It was deliberately under-funded, and given a profitability mandate that was known to be impossible. The basic idea was that it would be a Euthanasia program that would absolve the private companies of blame for ending passenger service. Reagan's plan to destroy Amtrak even went so far as to shut down the NEC. Yes, really. Of course, this probably wasn't really REAGAN's idea so much as it came from his staff, which were almost infinitely corrupt.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Yeah that first fact was overlooked by the both of us. Grant wasn't there because simply he had just been sworn in as president and Civil War reconstruction was still underway. Governor Leland Stanford was of course the one to drive the spike. Though Grant still very much played a role in the Golden Spike happening. But Grant WAS involved in attending a different golden spike ceremony. The golden spike for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in Montana in 1883

[@LIamMar-pq8zw]

There daylight 4449 again

[@mamarussellthepie3995]

Ceetified propoganda moment lmao

[@railsand]

745 🫡

[@overly7997]

Why don't you talk about the Reagan whistle stop campaign of 84 instead of cutting funding? Or how he did ads for Union Pacific's passenger trains, he supported and made an appearance for UP, WP, and MP's merger in '82, he collected model trains, he passed legislation creating the California state railroad museum, multiple presidents and congress hasn't been a fan of Amtrak's overly large funding. Reagan's administration believed that the private sector should take over passenger railroading and freight among other things. Sometime's presidents do things we don't all agree with but come on, THATs the fact you chose to include?

[@ClassyWhale]

Well, that seemed to be what Google was coughing up! Those are great facts, probably would have included one of those if I'd looked a little harder.

[@rynovoski]

The primary thing Ronald Reagan did the passenger rail was harmed. That’s not disputable.

[@ShukakuTheCrazy1]

Yet another reason to hate Reagan