Granville T. Woods was an inventor. He made the multiplex telegraph, the steam-boiler furnace, and an automatic air brake to slow or stop trains. He was born on April 23, 1856. He was known as the”Black Thomas Edison” He Taught himself electrical and mechanical engineering while he was working in railroad machine shops and steel mills. He went to school till he was ten years old. He built more than a dozen devices to improve electric railway cars. In 1872, he obtained a job as a fireman then, later, he became an engineer. Woods was sued by Edison, claiming the he was the first inventor of the multiplex telegraph. After Woods won the law suit, Edison offered him a job, which he kindly refused. Wood’s electric car was powered by overhead wires. He, along with his brother, founded the Woods Railway Telegraph Company (WRTC). Woods sold WRTC to the American Bell Telephone Company.
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Norfolk Southern SD70M-2
The train rolls by. Three SD40-2’s on the point. It is a great day to be a railfan. Norfolk Southern is in a power crunch and the 3,000 horsepower horses are out of the stable for the day. Good thing I have my camera in hand for some classic EMD action.