Rail roads and their tracks.

[spitter]

If they bagged them, they wouldn't have so much rail dust on them. At least that's their excuse for the rust particles on new cars after you get them.

 

[dodge man]

Rail dust on cars? That’s what introduced me to a clay bar. My 2010 Dodge Challenger was still pretty rough after waxing it when I first got it. That’s when I first read about rail dust, the fine metal particles from the train wheels and rails.

 

[MossRoad]

I was under the impression that automakers bagged new cars prior to loading.

I've never seen that done, nor ever heard of it.

I know when we had to ship postal vans to Hawaii, they were sprayed with some thick goo top to bottom, windows and all. We had to peel back a porthole in the windshield to see so we could drive them across town to the rail spurs we used.

It was everywhere. Just getting the door open was a sticky mess.

 

[ArlyA]

I little history of the steam engine.

 

[MossRoad]

 

[Hay Dude]

Well….that ain’t good!!!!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Laying in bed listening to the train whistles a few miles away. Love hearing them.

 

[MossRoad]

Laying in bed listening to the train whistles a few miles away. Love hearing them.

Laying on the couch surfing TBN waiting for the Fed-X and UPS 757's to shake the house.

 

[Hay Dude]

I must live the perfect distance from East Penn Railroad’s 2 lines that cross our 2 lane road. Just loud enough to be heard, but not loud enough to disrupt. I’m about 1 mile north of one and 2 miles south of the other.
Sometimes when the breeze is carrying the right way, it seems closer.
I think my local Railroad is one of the pillars of my community. They’ve had their share of problems, but they have endured and add to the structure and vitality of our area.

 

[nisaacs]

I must live the perfect distance from East Penn Railroad’s 2 lines that cross our 2 lane road. Just loud enough to be heard, but not loud enough to disrupt. I’m about 1 mile north of one and 2 miles south of the other.
Sometimes when the breeze is carrying the right way, it seems closer.
I think my local Railroad is one of the pillars of my community. They’ve had their share of problems, but they have endured and add to the structure and vitality of our area.

We still have a short local railroad here. Started life (1917) to haul logs and paper to and from the paper mill. No logs or paper mill anymore.

Huge wind farm going up here locally. Two phases of 72 and 104 windmills. It takes 11 truck loads per unit, some as long as 267' and some 254k in weight. They claim they can build one per day.

What is kinda strange, is, the blades are brought in by train, switch in Holbrook, then they backtrack south of the main rail to Snowflake. The main rail goes right past the final delivery location west of Holbrook to Winslow. Now they are loaded on trucks and pass right through down town Holbrook, across the railroad tracks to I-40 and westbound. The blades are 225' long.

I am assuming the reasoning has to do with reloading them but I would think it would be cheaper and way easier to build a landing in Winslow. 27 blades on this load. About a 70 mile haul on surface streets, highways and freeway.