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Throughout the article, the Delaware and Hudson Railway/company is sometimes written out completly and sometimes abbreviated to D&H. I feel we should keep this consistent and Either always write it out or always abbreviate it. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot ( talk) 05:49, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
I only contribute to these talk pages to complain, so I'd better start off with a compliment. There is much deep information here, and there appears to be deep authority behind it.
As for your discussion in FNs 1 and 2 of the criteria to be considered in expressing railroad firsts, you dare to buck a miserable trend. Few sources bring up those issues. They just spew some vague first, in rhetoric likely specious, and blithely move on. Not you. Bravo.
That said, my perennial complaint is that again and again I come to Wikipedia to answer—not a specialized, but an elementary question—and it fails me:
1. Were the stationary steam engines online from the get-go, in 1829? If so, state it. If not, state the year they came online.
2. Aren't they the first, or almost the first, "steam engines used for rail operation in the Western hemisphere?" I mean, that's something to crow about. Well, then, crow.
I hate to pass thru that dreaded airlock out into the cold vacuum of non-Wiki space to confirm 1829 or not, but unfor. I have to.
Cordially,
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Throughout the article, the Delaware and Hudson Railway/company is sometimes written out completly and sometimes abbreviated to D&H. I feel we should keep this consistent and Either always write it out or always abbreviate it. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot ( talk) 05:49, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
I only contribute to these talk pages to complain, so I'd better start off with a compliment. There is much deep information here, and there appears to be deep authority behind it.
As for your discussion in FNs 1 and 2 of the criteria to be considered in expressing railroad firsts, you dare to buck a miserable trend. Few sources bring up those issues. They just spew some vague first, in rhetoric likely specious, and blithely move on. Not you. Bravo.
That said, my perennial complaint is that again and again I come to Wikipedia to answer—not a specialized, but an elementary question—and it fails me:
1. Were the stationary steam engines online from the get-go, in 1829? If so, state it. If not, state the year they came online.
2. Aren't they the first, or almost the first, "steam engines used for rail operation in the Western hemisphere?" I mean, that's something to crow about. Well, then, crow.
I hate to pass thru that dreaded airlock out into the cold vacuum of non-Wiki space to confirm 1829 or not, but unfor. I have to.
Cordially,