New york city, or to other areas around the country. It was built for shelburne, however, it served Passenger Rail service up until 1953. When that stopped at that point, Passenger Rail service in this region. It was then given to the Shelburne Museum for posteritys sake, to allow people to be able to see it. It is exhibited with much of the Railroad Memorabilia that is typically seen in these stations. It was part of our founders collection at the time. It was moved overland from the center of shelburne here to the museum, which is not far away. It is probably a little less than a mile, one of the shortest moves that had to happen for the building of the Shelburne Museum. This is a traveling Passenger Rail car, the grand isle, built in 1899 by the palace wagner car company just before it changed ownership to the Pullman Company at the time. The president of the Rutland Railroad, dr. William seward webb, also had use of this car until about 1915 with the Rutland Railroad as a Passenger Car for personal use and Company Business to get from different areas within the region, and perhaps even down to new york city. The other interesting notes about this car, it was often used by a former vermont governor. It was actually given to him or he purchased it i am not exactly sure. But he would take the car to a place in canada where he had a summer camp, and he used it for transportation up into there as well. It came into the museums collection later in the 1950s. It probably ran on a regular basis up until 1914. It changed ownership to the governor, the former governor of the state of vermont, and it became part of the Canadian Railway system for a number of decades. It came to the museum in the late 1950s, around 1960. J. Watson webb jr. Wanted to have an exhibit of how the family moved about the country when they were up here in their summer home, on the lake. And the capability they had almost at the will of their fingertips to be able to go to the train station, hop on a private car and go where they , needed to go. This was something he wanted to bring to the museum and show how folks traveled and how his family had traveled here around the country. It was brought here, and it was restored, mahogany paneling within it. We are just now really understanding the provenance of this private car. The locomotive 220 was built in 1915 for the Central Vermont Railway company. And it is a mediumsized locomotive. It is coalfired, steam powered, and it has roughly 28,000 pounds of available traction pull, and that means from a starting point, it can pull 28,000 pounds. It could also get up to about 50 miles an hour with 1500 horsepower, but that depended largely on the firemen and the engineer to be able to build the proper fire to get enough steam out of it to get it going that fast. It is a 4, 6, 0 configuration. Front wheels, six driving four wheels, also called a 10wheeler. We are very fortunate to have it here at the Shelburne Museum. It was the last locomotive to run in vermont on the Central Vermont Railway. It was often termed as the president s locomotive or the president s train because it helped pull special Passenger Cars for calvin coolidge, herbert hoover, franklin d. Roosevelt, dwight eisenhower, and even had special trip for my pulling a special Excursion Train for Winston Churchill in 1941 when he was visiting canada and the u. S. The 220 was able to handle both freight and passenger service, which was not typical of all steam locomotives, but that meant that it had a hook up for the Passenger Car to provide steam and he to the Passenger Car as well. That is why it was also used for special excursions for the. Residents tours it had that special capability of poking up and hauling our on the tracks. Our cities tour staff recently traveled to burlington, vermont to learn about its rich , history. Learn about burlington and other stops on our tour at cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. , he talks about his book on the rise of Addictive Technology in the business of keeping us hooked. They say we know the dangers of technology and they do not say things like we have builtin special mechanisms to hook people so we do not want our kids hooked. If you are creating something, you know the dangers. You want to make sure people you love and hold dear are not going to be affected by them. Watch monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. American history tv is on cspan3 every weekend featuring museum tours, archival films, and programs on the presidency, the civil war, and more. Here is a clip from a recent program. Here is the Auction Block and the auctioneers stand. We are at greenhill plantation in campbell county, virginia. Company hereh the with me for my independent project about saving slave houses which is doing documentation of all the known slave houses in the united states. The Company Makes the survey equipment i use. One of the pieces of equipment they make is 3d laser scanners. That is a piece of equipment i currently do not use now. It is the highest level of documentation you could do for buildings or objects, 3d scanning. They are here to document some buildings with me. Has thentation site original slave owner here was very active in the slave trade. One of the things he decided to put in his yard is a slave Auction Block and auctioneer stand. You can feel the power of this place. HugeAuction Block is a part of why the site is so powerful. This would have been the last place men, women, and children would have been with their families. After this place, they would have been scattered across the united states. This is kind of ground zero for that experience here. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website, where all of our video is archived. That is cspan. Org history. Up next from the 34th annual Winston Churchill conference, father and son historians paul bew and john bew gives separate talks on Winston Churchills relationship with ireland, his influence influence on clement attlee, who served as british Prime Minister from 19451951. This event from new york city is about 45 minutes. [applause] good morning, everybody. Its such a pleasure to be here in a room with fellow churchillians sharing stories and planning out what inspired you about winston has been a lovely day and a half. We are more than experts on the family life of Winston Churchill. It was very exciting yesterday to hear celia and Lady Williams talking about what it was like to be a secretary. Part of the project we are