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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Andrews' Raid, or: The Great Locomotive Chase Pt. 1

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The Great Locomotive Chase was a very daring - but very failed - plot to commandeer a train and destroy a crucial stretch of railroad during the Civil War. It's a wild and fun story that covers a lot of ground as it travels around the southeastern U.S. Re

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:27.7

Head to iHeartRadio.com slash iHeartland today.

0:30.7

Welcome to Stuffy Mist in History Class from HouseofWorks.com.

0:36.1

Hello and welcome to the podcasters.

0:44.6

I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.

0:47.4

So normally when I put together an outline, I kind of sketch out when I'm going to say

0:51.3

at the beginning, up at the top of it.

0:54.2

Today it just says, Trains, y'all.

0:57.8

We have a request. It's from John. It's about Trains.

1:01.4

And it's the story of Andrews Raid, which is also known as the Great Locomotive Chase.

1:06.9

That later became the subject of a silent film starring Buster Keaton called The General.

1:11.7

It's about a very daring but also very failed plot to commandeer a train

1:17.2

and destroy a crucial stretch of railroad during the Civil War.

1:21.2

And the story is so awesome and full of excitement that we're going to tell it in two parts.

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