Railroads and Starship Troopers

I don't know who took this picture or where it was taken:  Perhaps somewhere in Colorado?  I'll have to ask Klietus to do a little research---he's a good researcher.

It would be safe to assume the good folks who built the transcontinental railroad across America in the 1860's would have loved to have had access to bridge building material like this.  Instead of using steel and concrete, they would have built this bridge completely out of wood timbers, tunneled through the rock or just figured out a much longer route to get around this hill.  (Now that I think about it, they would have probably put the railroad down below where the modern day folks put the highway you see in the picture.)  And they did all that by hand; thanks largely to the Chinese working man.

If you're looking for a good book about a fascinating event in American history, try "Nothing Like It In The World", by Stephen E. Ambrose.  I first read it in 2000 and enjoyed it so much I'm reading it again 17 years later.  If you don't like reading about things that actually occurred, you might try some stuff by Robert Heinlein.  I'm not related to either guy so feel free to take your pick:  You won't hurt my feelings either way:)

I'll try to keep you posted on railroad building and starship trooper kind of stuff....

P.S.  I'm in no way suggesting that intergalactic storm troopers don't actually exist.  But if they do, where in the snot were they when the blue color working man was breaking his back building the transcontinental railroad....BY HAND!