Railway Electrification: In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time

Baltimore and the Ohio Railroad (B & O) were the first railroads that supplied electricity to some railroads in 1895 (Handout, February 19, 2014). Electric locomotives are faster and less expensive than steam locomotives and do not generate smoke (handouts, 2/19/14). It opens the door to the electric locomotive and exchanged the steam locomotive on its own orbit. Nevertheless, from 1900 to 1950, only a handful of American railway companies were electrified. Due to the high initial cost and economic situation, the lack of standardized electrical systems used in railroads, and the resistance of enterprises, many US railroads were unable to power the railway (Bezilla, 42-47 ).

Continental railroads were completed in the 1960s, the rural electrification public corporation was established in the 1930s, modernization advanced nationwide, the isolated rural community changed completely. World War II in the 1940s also changed. Because of the violence, the trauma experience, and the exposure to the international city, the young people returned to a remote place and went home. Because of the fears Antonio 's brothers experienced during the war, they could not blend into the quiet life of Guadalupe, and Antonio was unable to cope with the lives that they had no longer war. He called "a giant to death". Their decision to leave Guadalupe is indirectly related to their experience in war.

This is the place of mourning. After the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, 1,700 Republicans (bodies, civilians, corpses of people accidentally captured in the wrong time) were sent to the center of Barcelona, ​​without dignity or ceremony here Was discarded. Fascist forces by General Francisco Franco. Their bullets are covered with lime and then thrown into the pit to ensure they collapse faster and surely. In the harsh cases of Fascist's humor, the medical certificate of many fatalities calls the cause of death "internal bloody".