They were often left it up off the ground when the trains were going fast and they didnt stop them. There were a lot of problems, but it was again they were all testing things out and there was of the first to experiment in this form and technique. After this period with the roads and canals he did come back to new york city and that is what i am going to talk a little bit about now. He came back to promote his idea as an elevated railroad. He wanted and i think this also speaks to what kind of person he was. He didnt just see the plan of the city. He saw a movement in the city and thought about how people were going to get around and how the island was going to develop. He was one of many people that came up with the plan for an elevated railroad and there are some wonderful distinction in the newspapers he gets into a few of some other designers referring to them as sort of stealing all of his ideas. But in fact they had taken a lot of his ideas. He had great support from a bunch of