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Changed my mind and went to grocery store. Got 2.
Working rail roads and their tracks.
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Changed my mind and went to grocery store. Got 2.
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Yeah and my comment is to STOP posting pictures of delicious foods that I have to avoid. :licking:
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Had some pork chops seasoned with maple bacon salt and stuffed with mushroom cream cheese mixture with a side of steamed cauliflower and baby carrots.... man, if that's not off the rails, I don't know what is! :laughing:
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Waiting for you to deliver mine.
If you don't mind day old... :licking:
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Moss, thanks for the Bloomberg article...interesting...!
Couldn't miss the article's mention of how the European governments had implemented policies to get people to do what the governments wanted, through punitive taxes on automobiles and fuel and targeted infrastructure investments.
Thought provoking...and makes my jaw tight.
Visited my old home town in upstate NY about 3 weeks ago...after being gone for nearly 45 years.
Looks like the trains left about the same time I did. The old trestle is all that remains.
If I search...I may still have a flattened penny or two from back in the day when we thought doing something that risky was a guaranteed jail term and would likely cause the train to derail!
Couldn't miss the article's mention of how the European governments had implemented policies to get people to do what the governments wanted, through punitive taxes on automobiles and fuel and targeted infrastructure investments.
Thought provoking...and makes my jaw tight.
Visited my old home town in upstate NY about 3 weeks ago...after being gone for nearly 45 years.
Looks like the trains left about the same time I did. The old trestle is all that remains.
If I search...I may still have a flattened penny or two from back in the day when we thought doing something that risky was a guaranteed jail term and would likely cause the train to derail!
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We have an enormous trestle bridge, abandoned nearby. It must have been quite a feat to build back in 1904.
1451’ long and 132’ high.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=PxVMs6GkLos&usg=AOvVaw2HXRP-NnhkXdHLt38NBTjs
1451’ long and 132’ high.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=PxVMs6GkLos&usg=AOvVaw2HXRP-NnhkXdHLt38NBTjs
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That's been my thought for several years. Our management (I'm retired now) was cutting corners by subcontracting jobs out. Often these were blue collar jobs. I thought what's to stop the office manger type from getting his job done overseas via interwebs and cheaper. We had an upper level manager who was not liked by the troops. He axed our security/gate guards to have it contracted out. Turns out he saved chump change and we ended up with people who didn't have a vested interest in the plant.
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Excellent drone footage. Quite a bridge too.... Thanks
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It is really cool to look at, but sad that despite being such an amazing structure, has been abandoned and left to deteriorate
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Thought about this thread as I was waiting at a crossing as a 100 plus car - train passed by earlier today.
I hate graffiti...with a passion...destruction of other people's property...heinous.
Although seeing all the rail cars go by with the painted graffiti...there are some talented artists out there. Rail cars "may" be the only place where graffiti might be considered art work.
Any place else - it is vandalism...!
I hate graffiti...with a passion...destruction of other people's property...heinous.
Although seeing all the rail cars go by with the painted graffiti...there are some talented artists out there. Rail cars "may" be the only place where graffiti might be considered art work.
Any place else - it is vandalism...!
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Noticed some interesting graffiti on train cars last week.
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Sure like to spray paint auto racks. I wonder if the new cars inside are covered? I'd not want to buy a new vehicle and have paint spatter on it... Yes some very talented spray paint artists out there.
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In 1922 Edsel Ford (an unheralded hero to most of us) convinced his Dad to buy Lincoln from Henry Leland (who had sold Cadillac to GM in '17 and started another company).
As a top brand/line for Ford the cars would be shipped/delivered in a flannel 'bag' like a bottle of Crown Royal. (no box :laughing
Vandals and graffiti or not, that's customer service, and a rail-friendly way to deliver a product.
(btw, IMO, Edsel Ford was stressed to an early death by his Father's relentless and unwarranted displeasure and abuse. Gone is not forgotten, guys.)
As a top brand/line for Ford the cars would be shipped/delivered in a flannel 'bag' like a bottle of Crown Royal. (no box :laughing
Vandals and graffiti or not, that's customer service, and a rail-friendly way to deliver a product.
(btw, IMO, Edsel Ford was stressed to an early death by his Father's relentless and unwarranted displeasure and abuse. Gone is not forgotten, guys.)
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In 1922 Edsel Ford (an unheralded hero to most of us) convinced his Dad to buy Lincoln from Henry Leland (who had sold Cadillac to GM in '17 and started another company).
As a top brand/line for Ford the cars would be shipped/delivered in a flannel 'bag' like a bottle of Crown Royal. (no box :laughing
Vandals and graffiti or not, that's customer service, and a rail-friendly way to deliver a product.
(btw, IMO, Edsel Ford was stressed to an early death by his Father's relentless and unwarranted displeasure and abuse. Gone is not forgotten, guys.)
Strange name for a kid, Edsel. Of course my wife is a RE Olds, great granddaughter. Ransome is a strange name for a boy too.
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We have more than our share of homeless people, but they are more in town. These bridges are out of town. And they built them all up above grade to go over the tracks that were at grade before the highway was there. It's kind of a whoopdeedoo road now with all the built up overpasses. And it's a high wind area to boot. They frequently have to close it when trucks, campers and manufactured houses get blown over up on the elevations.
The red arrow is a live track. The three yellow arrows are abandoned. They were live when the highway was built around 1970 and gradually were let go.
The yellow one on the right went between South Bend and Indianapolis. Took a lot of product from Studebaker and Kaiser Jeep (now AM General). Just to the right of the top of that right arrow is still an active AM General test track for on and off road testing of Hummers.
The middle yellow arrow used to be the NJI&I. It went about 8 miles south to tie into the east/west Wabash RR line. The NJI&I was built by the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Hard to believe that a sewing machine company was so large that it had it's own railroad, but they had 4 HUGE buildings and made all of their wood cabinets and sewing machines here in South Bend. They are one of the main reasons northern Indiana was deforested of hardwoods. There was that much of a demand for sewing machines.
New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois Railroad - Wikipedia
The left yellow arrow went to the southwest, over towards Kankakee, Illinois. I've given the history of that line before. Part of it runs through one of my properties and there's an old railroad trestle still there on the property. I remember trains on it until the 80s.
The red arrow was the former Grand Trunk Western, now CN. That comes from Detroit through South Bend, then runs SW and eventually turns back NW to Chicago.
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I used to work at singer controls, a quasi uaw shop making a/c control valves for your chrysler or ford, no gm. funny, we went from unlimited overtime to laid off in a couple months. i worked 340 days in a row once just to see how long i could do it. time and a half after 8 hours and on saturday, double time on sunday and triple time on holidays. easy money? try it yourself!
after i got laid off and thanks to our generous govt., i was able to take advantage of the TRA, trade readjustment act, republican legislation, kinda like gettin girls to take stem classes. i actually graduated. basically a free ride back to school but in only technical field so, i went from teaching to technology. i was in grad school in paleontology but, for some reason, they wouldn't pay for that! i had to learn math and such!
singer also had a huge defense div.
so......if the a/c in your early to late 70s chrysler of ford didn't work, you have me to blame!
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