User talk:Peter Lawson86

Hello Peter Lawson86. You recently edited the above article. The section you edited was a quotation from Hurd's monument. In effect, you changed something that isn't true anymore. The language was written by Hurd's commanding general, Major General Grenville M. Dodge, in recognition of Hurd's engineering excellence during and after the U.S. Civil War.

If you feel that strongly about the language, you could reedit the material to remove the quote and paraphrase Dodge's comments about Hurd. Let me know your thoughts, but I don't think it is fair to the readers to change the quote. Cheers Risk Engineer (talk) 15:37, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Risk Engineer,

Thank you for your advice. Following your suggestion, I located the original quotation in Grenville M. Dodge's How We Built the Union Pacific Railway (p. 138).

Source: https://caldernorthern.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Union-Pacific-How-we-built-the-Union-Pacif-Pailray.pdf

My edit was part of a newcomer task suggesting tone improvements, which is why I initially modified the wording. However, I understand that this sentence is a direct quotation from Hurd’s monument and should not be altered.

So I plan to restore the original wording and add the citation to the source.

Thanks again for pointing this out. Peter Lawson86 (talk) 02:58, 14 March 2026 (UTC)