Lindbergh

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When he grew up, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. When he was a boy in the early 20th Century , he kept a journal in which he told about his life. He was especially interested in cars, trains, and machinery. He was fourteen when he wrote this exciting entry in his journal.
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//**May 18, 1916 **// When we were about 16 miles from Duluth the gas got low and we didn't know if we had enough to last us or not and there were no stations, so when we got to the top of one of the many hills we would turn off the gas and let the machine coast down. This went all right until we got to the top of the highest hill...and we started to coast down but the hill got steeper and steeper and it curved around a lot, we could not see the end of it. Then I put on brakes that stopped the progress until they got loose and the hill got steeper and the steepest part of the hill was the railroad track and a freighter in the middle! The gate was down and there was no way to stop.
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There was a slight opening between the gate and the track. I turned into the track and the bottom was full of clay and as there was nothing could go through it, we stopped in about ten feet. Nothing was hurt but there was no getting out of that hole...the yardmaster came along and offered us a tow out with a locomotive that was near by. When it got on the cable it just lifted the car right out and we went on...