Started hearing from these dignitaries as weve been saying very different responses from joe biden and President Trump biden and his video message saying that he shares the familys pain and that its time now for that pain to turn into purpose what are we hearing from the white house. Yeah well to be clear the u. S. President did call the family of george floyd and he did speak at length about how george floyd would not have died in vain that was a speech that he spent about 15 minutes talking about but its was many days ago since then it has really been joe biden who has capitalized on this in an effort to propel what he says is a jenna genda to try and bring about change not just at the president ial level but also weve seen this from members of congress specifically the democrats in the house of representatives who have introduced legislation looking to bring about a number of police for forms at the federal level for federal policing ending things like racial profiling creating a Po
Editor s note: Last month, as part of The Record s Where History Lives series, Peter Willott wrote about the mystery of the Florida Southwestern Railway and the two brothers, Fred and Floyd Perry, who built their very own locomotive in a St. Augustine backyard. Floyd s son, Charles Perry, saw the story and reached out to St. Augustine Historical Society s Chief Librarian Bob Nawrocki with more information. On Wednesday, Nawrocki and Willott met Charles Perry at his St. Augustine home where helped to unravel some of the mystery.
Fred Perry was fascinated with railroads from an early age, Charles Perry said. As a boy growing up on Florida s west coast in the early 1900s, he would flag down trains and convince the conductors to give him a ride into town.
For years now, Bob Nawrocki has been trying to get to the bottom of a mystery that dates back to 1954.
The story begins with two brothers, Fred and Floyd Perry, who dreamed of becoming railroad tycoons. So much so, that they spent seven years building their very own locomotive in the backyard of Fred’s small house at 44. S. Whitney St. in St. Augustine.
That’s right. They built a 60,000-pound, 36-foot-long completely functional narrow-gauge steam locomotive Fred called Engine 425. They bought the plans from a company that was making steam railroad engines. They did all of their machine work; they had casting done by a local pattern place in town; they did all their own welding and painting, said Nawrocki, St. Augustine Historical Society s chief librarian. By 1963, their total cost was well over $71,000.
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