d to help finish the road to that city.

Whilst upon the subject of inventors, inventions and Rail Roads, I may
tell you that the two-horse-car ran from this City to Frankfort over the
'flat iron' rail until 18-- when a little steam locomotive called the
Nottaway made one trip to Frankfort and back the same day. It drew one
passenger coach built by Mr. Ashton, the venerable coach builder of this
city. The inside would accommodate about as many as a modern omnibus
and seats on the top with an iron railing all around would seat as many
more. I have an indistinct recollection where the baggage and mail
matter were stored but I think they were given in charge of the
engineer, who also in that capacity was baggage master and mail agent.

I recollect distinctly the little locomotives, Nottaway and Logan.
More than two-score times have I and other able bodied men gotten out of
the passenger car when the locomotive was not able to pull the load over
some slight elevation in the road and pushed passenger car and engine up
the inclined plane of less than one degree inclination. When we arrived
at the summit of the inclination, which was about nine miles from
Lexington in what was called the 'deep cut,' the engineer in the
meantime having raised steam enough to carry passengers to the next
slight ascension in the road, cried 'all aboard' and away we went.
'All out' was the engineer's next cry when he came to some slight
ascension in the road. Out we came and our shoulders were again applied
to help the little locomotive out of its terrible difficulty. Arriving
at the top of the hill at Frankfort from a four to six hours ride of
twenty-four miles we met with two serious questions either to go down
the inclined plane at nearly 40 degrees inclination free of charge or
take the hacks and carriages in waiting by paying 25 cents extra. My
old friend, Rev. Dr. R. J. Breckinridge and myself not wishing to risk
our lives on the incline plane took seats in a hack. I recollect Dr.
Breckinridge's remark, when he paid his extra quarter for hack hire:
'I agree to pay $1.00 to be carried safely to Frankfort. I pay this
additional 25 cents under protest as a swindle.' The driver 'took our
monies and went his ways' and proceeded to collect 25 cents from each
passenger going into Frankfort until some 'change' was made by the
Directors of the Rail Road."

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Mr. Andy Shepherd in an interview said he remember