It was built over my Table (158 Madison Avenue, New York) where I gave best room to Dr. Thomas C. Durant, in brown stone front owned now by my daughter (Mrs. Susie Train Gulager), and - wnmortgaged, {only Two Blocks from Waldorf-Astoria Hotel). Every appointment, and contract was made over my Dinner Table! Directors met there privately and I went to work with usual energy! I saw Commodore Vander-hilt, Garrison, Grinnell, Roberts, Astor—and told them what I intended to do! They ied: "Train, you are known as Clipper Ship King, but if you attempt to built Railway across American Desert and Rocky Mountain World will call you Crazy!"
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