1st time visitor there a couple weeks ago. Quite a unique place to say the least. Mr W. Gillette must of been one heck of a character and fascinating person to know. Saw the restored battery loco do not recall if both locos were displayed or not. Sensory overload I guess. Saw some of the grade and thought what a shame as that must of been a hell of a fun ride. Could see certain sections of ROW and a bridge placement made it look down right exciting to have ridden on. My guess is the state would not want the liability or to come up with the money to rebuild the rail road. CT like Ill, CA and a few other states sound like they are broke. Too bad as it would be the biggest attraction and really a crowd pleaser from my perspective. Hopefully I am wrong and there are plans to rebuild it? I am not expert on the place just a recent visitor. Sure is a lot to see out there.

Regards, John.

I would consider it more than unfortunate for me – should I find myself doomed, after death, to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet – to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home – founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; – that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock, and stone culverts and underpasses, all built in every particular for permanence (so far as there is such a thing); – that my locomotives and cars, constructed on the safest and most efficient mechanical principles; – that these, and many other things of a like nature, should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded

According to Bennett Cerf in his 1944 book Try and Stop Me, Woolley was at a dinner party and suddenly belched. A woman sitting nearby glared at him; he glared back and said, "And what did you expect, my good woman? Chimes?" Cerf wrote, "Woolley was so pleased with this line that he insisted it be written into his next role in Hollywood.