{"id":1863,"date":"2016-01-04T17:37:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T23:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2016-01-04T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T23:38:16","slug":"m-i-train-races-against-team-of-mules-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=1863","title":{"rendered":"M &#038; I Train Races Against Team of Mules (1913)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>M &amp; I Train Races Mules from Bemidji to Farley (1913)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trainmen on the M &amp; I road are laughing at the crew in charge of the northbound passenger train last Friday night.\u00a0 The train was manned by Engineer Leak, Fireman George Bridgman, and Conductor Bush.\u00a0 At North Bemidji, a span of mules took the track ahead of the train and in spite of frantic signals from Mr. Bush and raucous tooting of the engine\u2019s whistle, the mules stayed in front until they got stuck in a bridge this side of Farley.\u00a0 From Bemidji to Turtle River, it was a race.\u00a0 In spite of the best efforts of Fireman Bridgman, the train could not gain a foot on the fleet-footed sons of Missouri.\u00a0 When the train slowed down for the Turtle River stop, the mules disappeared around the bend in a haze of flying snow.\u00a0 Near Farley the passenger caught up and found them stuck in the bridge.\u00a0 It took the combined efforts of train crew, engine crew and a few passengers to get the mules out.\u00a0 Fireman Bridgman said that he hated to run second to a pair of mules.\u00a0 Passengers said that the M. &amp; I. reminded them of a \u201cslow train through Arkansas.\u201d\u00a0 (Jan 16, 1913)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M &amp; I Train Races Mules from Bemidji to Farley (1913) Trainmen on the M &amp; I road are laughing at the crew in charge [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=1863\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsclips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}