Didn't hear about the stuck brake shoe fires on the news down here, maybe the trains need to go back to the caboose system where a couple of men are in the caboose to spot axle fires on the train cars. Don't think it would be that much extra cost to haul a caboose with modern engines.
Did see the S.C. Furniture Store fire, what a disaster and unfortionate thing to happen to those nine firefighters!
A&Y ry, let me just add to the comment about General Sherman-he had NO respect for religious buildings as that is where he put his unit's horses overnight in Savannah GA.
Lee F.
General "Buckeye" Tecumsesh Sherman and his carpetbagger troops performed scorched earth urban renewal in Atlanta and its approaches during 1865. They set the right-of-way fires with crossties so they could heat the rails on Southern railroads and bend them around trees. It took awhile, but Southern RRs finally recovered and got control of the poorly managed Yankee railroads via CSX and NS.
All of this eventually and unfortunately led to a massive migration of Yankees to Atlanta and environs and things have never been normal since-----primarily because the production and sale of Grits increased tenfold as Yanks became addicted to them. Prior to that time Grits were only produced from Yankee corn in the grain mills of Northeastern Ohio.[my Grandpa had a mill near Dennison].
ChiefEagles wrote: railroadinmedic wrote:Did you ever get a link to this fire? I live one county over from there and haven't heard a thing....which of course, seems to be normal! LOL Thanks, CarlPer David Crabtree on WRAL-TV.
railroadinmedic wrote:Did you ever get a link to this fire? I live one county over from there and haven't heard a thing....which of course, seems to be normal! LOL Thanks, Carl
Per David Crabtree on WRAL-TV.
For some reason, we can't seem to get that station here !!
Thanks, John
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Cheif, are you sure that you don't mean add a few thousand tons of sand to keep the condominium from falling into the ocean like here in Palm Beach FL on Singer Island? This is not the first time that extra sand had to be brought in.
I don't see why anybody with a half a brain would buy a condo right on the ocean!
laz57 - There is an advantage to living in Georgia...you can actually count to 11 with just two hands...
...and the Yanks probably would have left Sumter if the Rebs had actually hit someone.
magicman710 wrote: I have never heard of anybody that doesnt like Georgia. The coast is the best part of georgia, alot of rich heritage there. Never been past the left side of georgia. Only florida and south carolina. Never wanted to go anywhere else. Well everybody have a good night and good weekend. I have to stay up late tonight for the chat. Grayson
I have never heard of anybody that doesnt like Georgia. The coast is the best part of georgia, alot of rich heritage there. Never been past the left side of georgia. Only florida and south carolina. Never wanted to go anywhere else.
Well everybody have a good night and good weekend. I have to stay up late tonight for the chat.
Grayson
Especially GEORGIA PEACHES.
laz57
laz 57 wrote: As far as SWEET TEA, no wonder your family pictures look so good with those teeth missing. Have fun. laz57
As far as SWEET TEA, no wonder your family pictures look so good with those teeth missing. Have fun. laz57
I hear a popular compliment is 'nice tooth'...
Happy elevenzies Laz!!!!
Kurt
wrmcclellan wrote:Interesting - 13 fires in NC and property values go up...
At least we do not have to water our foundations to keep our houses from moving around.
Regards, Roy
"Lionel trains are the standard of the world" - Jousha Lionel Cowen
well im like a gypsy, i been everywere.
Started life in Klamath falls, oregon
moved to california as a toddler spent many yrs here
visited missouri for 4yrs
back to california and when i truned 18 went in the army
was stationed in ft benning ga for 11 years
now im 30 and back in california
wish id moved to ga again instead, i really liked it there. There was so much to do around there. Oh well.
but thats in in a nutshell ..
laz 57 wrote: magicman710 wrote: laz 57 wrote: Probably an accumulation of GRITS that caused the fire.laz57All yankees say that grits taste like sand............... so yankees are stupid enough to eat sand? How else would they know what sand tastes like? Grits! Sweet Tea! Grits! Sweet Tea! Grits! Sweet Tea!Grayson You SOUTHERNERS don't listen,probably ate so much of that stuff it blocked up youe ears. As far as SWEET TEA, no wonder your family pictures look so good with those teeth missing. Have fun.laz57
magicman710 wrote: laz 57 wrote: Probably an accumulation of GRITS that caused the fire.laz57All yankees say that grits taste like sand............... so yankees are stupid enough to eat sand? How else would they know what sand tastes like? Grits! Sweet Tea! Grits! Sweet Tea! Grits! Sweet Tea!Grayson
laz 57 wrote: Probably an accumulation of GRITS that caused the fire.laz57
Probably an accumulation of GRITS that caused the fire.
All yankees say that grits taste like sand............... so yankees are stupid enough to eat sand? How else would they know what sand tastes like?
Grits! Sweet Tea! Grits! Sweet Tea! Grits! Sweet Tea!
You SOUTHERNERS don't listen,probably ate so much of that stuff it blocked up youe ears. As far as SWEET TEA, no wonder your family pictures look so good with those teeth missing. Have fun.
You yankees dont listen either. The war would have never started if you'd have left Fort Sumter.
Zeke, sorry to here you dont like grits, but i cant call you a yankee, since your in california. Where was you originally from?
You guys crack me up....was laughing my rear off reading this.....
i love sweet tea and well grits, couldnt pay me to eat them again......theres some great food that comes from the south i will say that. When i was station in ga i had some of the best bbq...yummy....
but i am not for the north or south but its fun to watch the battle
I knew that grits was a "coagulate" ( To cause transformation of (a liquid to a solid, for example: into or as if into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass.) But, I didn't realize they were also combustable.
Learn something every day from this forum !!!
I'm going to go see what's happening with the brewery.
Don
All yankees say that grits taste like sand............... so yankees are stupid enough to eat sand? How else would they know what sand tastes like? j/k
All the way John!!!!!!!!! N&S have the most derailments of any train company. CSX! CSX! CSX!
ChiefEagles wrote: That was the breaking news on local TV last night at 6PM. I bet it was CSX!!!!!
That was the breaking news on local TV last night at 6PM. I bet it was CSX!!!!!
It was the N & S !!
I remember when I was a fireman and the NW would come through the fire district during the summer when it was dry and hot boxes would "strow" fire all down the tracks. I put a truck on the tracks one hot afternoon. Called "Central" and told them to hold all trains. Guess What? We had the authority to do that. At a fire scene, the officer in charge can "stop the world" if he needs too.
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