tenthrune asked:
I remember a legend about the era when the railroad industry was booming and many people were employed to tunnel though the mountains using hand tools such as sledgehammers. Then a machine was invented that made the work much more effecient. The story goes that there was one man who was extremely well known for his strength and ability to do his work on the railroad, and ultimately he bet that he could plow through the mountain by hand faster than the machine could do it. He ended up with a sledgehammer in each hand and he beat the machine - just barely - and then promppromptly from the effort. But I was hoping to find the legend somewhere on the internet to make rewriting and translating it a bit easier - most importantly, I need the man’s name. It seems to me that it started with Jim, but I could be very wrong. Anybody remember this one?
Mike
I remember a legend about the era when the railroad industry was booming and many people were employed to tunnel though the mountains using hand tools such as sledgehammers. Then a machine was invented that made the work much more effecient. The story goes that there was one man who was extremely well known for his strength and ability to do his work on the railroad, and ultimately he bet that he could plow through the mountain by hand faster than the machine could do it. He ended up with a sledgehammer in each hand and he beat the machine - just barely - and then promppromptly from the effort. But I was hoping to find the legend somewhere on the internet to make rewriting and translating it a bit easier - most importantly, I need the man’s name. It seems to me that it started with Jim, but I could be very wrong. Anybody remember this one?
Mike