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[8D]Well We FinAlly Made It Past The Bridge My Brother Leaned Over The Side <br />And Fell Into A Lake [:D][:D]It Was Funny Till He Got Hurt Then It Was Even Funnier[:D][:D] <br />When He Came up After His Belly Flop He Realized His Cigarettes Were In HIs Pocket This Is The Same Guy Who Pissed On A Hot Wire Fence Cause He Didnt Belive Me When I told Him It Would Shock Him [:0][:0](hes A beliver now) <br />It Was Only A 5 Foot Fall There Was No Cables On The Walkway The <br />Bridge Was Maybe 50 Feet Long But Know One Was Seriouly Injured <br />But Theres A way I Know How To Activate RR xing Signals I learned It when I was younger take a piece of speaker wire 6-7 feet long And lay It Across <br />the track put A flat rock on each end but you have to be within 50 feet of the crossing this will not effect block signals just activates lights and cossin gates if you want to back up traffic for a while i did this aroun 5 am one morning on a set of one way roads gates faceing each other on the same side of the track <br />on both roads the light came on and gates went down the track is used 2 times <br />A month For A scrap yd and feed mill Traffic was backed up for hours UPRR <br />couldnt figure it out [:D][:D] that was years ago but no one got hurt <br />but back to my trip we found two old mills and A pulp wood plant there was evidence of old structures that used box or flat cars or both the track Is A storage track for UP & KCS there was Alot of KCS Twincar auto racks <br />(two cars Three sets of wheels) we found them empty and open and sat down and rested then walked the entire lenght of the train if the lead car was 2 feet back we coul have hit the switch but we found a crossing and put the truck <br />back on the rails when we found an abandoned coal tower we remembered a girl who fell off one and was killed so we didnt mess around and kept going till we hit an old SP spur that went From Mt Pleasent Texas To FT Worth Down to Waco tx And then east to corsicana or south to sanantonio.
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