Acme ‘Iron Horse’ Perambulating Steam Locomotive By western author Nick Brumby "Don’t need rail to deliver your mail. "  —Slogan from an ACME ‘Cloud City Express’ poster advertising its Perambulating Steam Locomotive service *** Dateline: April 1, 2025 DID YOU KNOW?: Kansas’ mythical ‘Iron Horse’ Perambulating Steam Locomotive Service was launched on this day in 1866, striding its way into history as America’s

1861 Armored Prairie Schooner By western author Nick Brumby "Two horses should git 'er there in half the time of one." —Missouri inventor Zeke Mycarsarustbucket peers out of the window of his revolutionary 1861 armored prairie schooner. Zeke Mycarsarustbucket, a blacksmith, designed his 1861 Armored Prairie Schooner in a blinding fit of rage after his own prairie schooner burned to a pile of

Idaho Spaghetti Trees By western author Nick Brumby Dateline: April 1, 2023 DID YOU KNOW?: America’s legendary wild Idaho Spaghetti Trees were discovered on this day in 1872 by two railroad workers lost in a blizzard while building the Transcontinental Railroad. The two men, Pa Star and Carb O'Nara, were part of a crew building the Central Pacific railroad west across the Swiss