Toast to Edward Rutsch who would have been 69

Yes, and I think he would have enyoyed the North Creek Railroad Museum in North Creek, NY, with an active roundhouse (it stops there now and only goes to Riparius, NY but once hauled titanium out of the Adirondacks, the old McIntyre Iron Mine and the "ghost town" of Adirondac in the foothills of Mt. Marcy (Tahawas) received $500,000 for historic interpretation and preservation. After the Civil War it was shown on maps going to Ogdensburg, NY and Sackett's Harbor, NY. I remember going to the City of Paterson, NJ that he had worked on where the locomotives had once been made and he had worked on the water races and railroad features. The town was designed originally by the planner of Washington, D.C. L'Enfant, finished by Colt of the gun manufacturing history it's been written. A salute, though one by the "Peacemaker" built by the Haddersley Forge on the west side on NYC "for free" to Mount Vernon, exploded killed many (two Cabinet members and one Senator Gardiner, of Gardiners Island the last surviving "manor" in North America" among them) throwing the recent widower President Tyler below decks into the arms of nineteen year old Julia Gardiner, below decks having some champagne (or vice versa) she becoming the future First Lady. The siege of Richmond, Virginia ceased to allow her safe passage through the lines back to NYC when ex-President Tyler died in Richmond and she left. She lived on Staten Island for many years after. A salute, "The First Salute" a good book by Barbara W. Tuchman. In it Washington watched the combined French/American troops cross the Hudson River to eventually defeat General Cornwalis (Admiral Cornwalis was in NYC harbor) from a wooden tower according to her research. George Myers (he said he wouldn't hold it against me if I worked for Greenhouse)