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I've got a few T- or sweat shirts that go back 20 or so years, but that's about it. And they're pretty much relegated to being "grub"...

And it only turns a total of about 500 revolutions from startup, burnout, and the race. The race only takes about 250 revolutions in 1000'.

An old crusty truck driver that worked for me back on the 70s said that a truck only has enough power if it can pull 100,000 lbs up a...

Ours still do in downtown areas.

I heard it as: Close only counts in horseshoes and atom bombs.

I didn't have any rivets (then), but had a bin full of bolts, so I used them. I considered staggering the rivet holes and plug welding...

Did the same except I used steel rivets to reassemble. Bearing was cheap compared to the assembly.

Not to be too picky but a ball bearing is filled with bearing balls, so your bearing was short a few bearing balls.

Canadian Pacific's Slocan Local takes a barge to work. The tug IRIS G is just departing Rosebery, British Columbia, en route south on...

Developers are currently turning a 1905 Rock Island bridge over the Kaw River between KCMO and KCKS into an "entertainment district"...

They say undated but this should have taken place in the 50's or 60's. Note the span that rotates. As the river was being dammed, all...

June 1909, at the Canadian Lock on the St. Marys River, Soo Michigan, they experienced a free flow through the lock after an upbound...

The James R. Barker on Lake St Clair heading north as the Indiana Harbor was headed south..

What we here in Indiana refer to as "doing donuts", i.e. doing a burnout going in a circle, in Minnesota, I'm told, is called "whipping...