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Posted by trackrat888 on Sunday, April 19, 2015 8:09 PM

Big SmileHow did the $%^% we get here? However I am learning something new abot RRing that I never knew before!Big Smile

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Posted by wanswheel on Sunday, April 19, 2015 1:50 PM
"What this Credit Mobilier is seems to be as much shrouded in mystery as is the fate of the missing $180,000,000 of capital stock of these roads."
Adams was 33 when “Railroad Inflation” was published, containing the quote attributed to a young muckraker by PBS, and he was 70 before Theodore Roosevelt finally coined the word.
Interestingly, at the time Adams wrote the Railroad Inflation article, he was a railroad commissioner of Massachusetts.
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Posted by schlimm on Saturday, April 18, 2015 10:09 PM

"Chapters on the Erie" was a fine work of history, hardly muchraking, unless Pollyannas think anything that gives a factual account of both triumphs and corruption of a railroad is such.

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Posted by wanswheel on Saturday, April 18, 2015 12:34 PM
The Nation, March 25, 1915
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
It has often been said that the Adams family is America's chief contribution to the doctrine of hereditary genius. High ability persistent in a direct line for four generations is rare anywhere: in the United States we have no other instance of it so notable. And if a man like Galton had traced this intellectual inheritance in detail, he would not have failed to note the way in which the special quality of the mind descended from father to son. It has always had, so to speak, a timbre of its own. In the first Adams as in the one whose death has just made the country poorer, there were traits that marked their possessor from other men. To characterize them accurately would be difficult, but everybody knows what they suggest—a certain austerity joined with great personal independence, a gift of incisive speech, breadth of mind accompanied by intense convictions, always a keen sense of public duty, with a Brutus-like firmness in insisting that truth and law have their course.
A true-bred Adams in all these ways, Charles Francis Adams had an outthrusting personality all his own. For something like forty years he had been a kind of American Socrates, in the sense of being a gad-fly to thought, and of continually driving his fellows to search the foundations of their comfortable opinions. He discharged this function over a wide range of human activities. No one more often stirred more people to exasperation and even resentment, but he cared not for that so long as he stirred them to inquire and to think. His “Chapters on Erie” has been called the first piece of muckraking in the United States. It is a term which he would have abhorred, but in the effect he took a grim satisfaction. To shock his countrymen out of complacent but ill-founded beliefs, to compel them to go to the historical sources, to see the facts clear, and then to think straight about them—this was the aim or, at all events, the result of his work in many lines.
His famous attack on the courses of study at Harvard, with his blunt arraignment of the illiterate undergraduates, was not sustained, on the whole, in the opinion of the judicious, but it produced a mighty fluttering in the college dove-cotes and doubtless led to reforms. But Charles Francis Adams was always seeking to go behind the conventional thing to the real thing, always taking traditional historians by the ear and making them study the documentary evidence. His researches into the actual social and moral conditions of Puritan New England opened and pained many eyes. And much other of his historical writing compelled revision of accepted judgments. His brief Life of his father—a larger work, we understand, is some day to be published—set the whole matter of the relations between England and the United States during our Civil War completely straight. One can imagine the quiet pleasure which he took in publishing the correspondence between his father and Lord Palmerston, over the New Orleans affair, in which the impetuous old English statesman, who had put himself in the wrong, got such a right Adams douche. On our whole Civil War period Mr. Adams thought and wrote much, as witness his noteworthy lectures at Oxford, in 1913; and was working, it is known, upon new material which he had gathered on that subject.
Few nowadays knew that Charles Francis Adams was a soldier. Yet he served all through the Civil War and won the brevet rank of brigadier-general. But this title he at once laid aside, as did Carl Schurs when the war was over, as if wishing to emphasize his devotion to the peaceful duties of a citizen. These he discharged with a vigor as uncompromising and a patriotism as shining as if he had been leading a storming party against the enemy's fortifications. His military experience stood him in good stead in the performance of one civic duty—his stout and scornful opposition to the abuses and frauds of our pension system. Equally clear-eyed and plainspoken was he regarding the monstrosities of the protective tariff. The terseness and pungency with which he characterized the rush of the tariff-fed swine to the trough must have left a sting under the hide of even the most hardened and greedy of them.
One outstanding and delightful quality of Mr. Adams, which he displayed to the full in the last decade of his long life, was his open-mindedness and his intellectual curiosity. He never became petrified into a severe dogmatist. It might be said of him, as it has been of another, “He died learning.” About him in Washington it was his pleasure to gather young men—students, scientists, even newspaper men—with fresh points of view. No one was so welcome at his table as the man who could enlighten him or quicken his interest in favorite themes. He was intensely alive to all that was going on in the world. Needless to say, the European war set all his fibres tingling. His general position of hostility to the Germans was made known in letters to the English press. These were naturally more restrained than his personal talk and correspondence. From a private letter written by him no longer ago than March 13, the following characteristic passage may be taken; it was Mr. Adams's comment upon the assertion that Americans do not understand Germany because they “cannot think like Germans”:
Suspecting this in my own case, I have of late confined my reading on this topic exclusively to German sources. I have been taking a course in Nietzsche and Treitschke, as also in the German “Denkschrift,” illumined by excerpts from the German papers in this country and the official utterances of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. The result has been most disastrous. It has utterly destroyed my capacity for judicial consideration. I can only say that if what I find in those sources is the capacity to think Germanically, I would rather cease thinking at all. It is the absolute negation of everything which has in the past tended to the elevation of mankind, and the installation in place thereof of a system of thorough dishonesty, emphasized by brutal stupidity. There is a low cunning about it, too, which is to me in the last degree repulsive.
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Posted by Wizlish on Saturday, April 18, 2015 11:51 AM

He was referring to that Charles Francis Adams as if he were an inflammatory journalist - perhaps having been exposed to his "Notes on Railway Accidents" (with its eerie description of oil-car accidents).

Enough to make people who care about historiography tear their hair - if any is left from all the other things happening to objective truth these days.  [/rant]

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Posted by schlimm on Saturday, April 18, 2015 10:04 AM

Wizlish

 

 
Victrola1
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-scandal/

 

" ... young muckraker Charles Francis Adams"???

HOW many years before there was actually 'muckraking'???

I hate it when the wrong kind of amateurs try to do revisionist or supposedly topical history.

 

One wonders which Charles Francis Adams he referred to?  Senior was a distinguished federal diplomat and politician, son of John Quincy Adams.  CFA Jr. was president of the UP for six years. Son Henry was a fine historian, hardly a 'muckraker' by any stretch of the imagination.  

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Posted by trackrat888 on Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:21 PM
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Posted by trackrat888 on Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:16 PM

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:11 PM

Wizlish

 

 
Victrola1
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-scandal/

 

" ... young muckraker Charles Francis Adams"???

HOW many years before there was actually 'muckraking'???

I hate it when the wrong kind of amateurs try to do revisionist or supposedly topical history.

 

  Oops.  I thought you were talking about a different Charles Addams.

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Posted by carnej1 on Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:56 PM

Wizlish

 

 
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"The Wrong Kind of Amateur"? What; like Trackrat?......

 

No, no, no ... I meant the carefully-kept-anonymous person or people who wrote that 'American Experience' piece.  I apologize ... but not too much ... if the sarcasm is a bit too pointed.

Certainly not criticizing Victrola1 or anyone else here.

 

All I was doing was making a quip about the O.P..

Like many threads he starts it seems to be bouncing back and forth between a serious discussion and wisecracking..

 

 

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Posted by Victrola1 on Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:15 PM

http://www.nychicagorr.org/History.html

The private sector already has plans a third of the way across. 

The miracle of electric traction and following the crow's flight will reduce highway and air lane congestion in heavily populated areas. Sorry, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Buffalo. The goal is San Fransisco. 

Public sector support will be necessary west of the Great Lakes. The issue is where to start. Omaha makes sense. Besides, five or more private ventures can build for and fight over what interchange traffic there would be in between. 

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Posted by Wizlish on Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:39 AM

carnej1
"The Wrong Kind of Amateur"? What; like Trackrat?......

No, no, no ... I meant the carefully-kept-anonymous person or people who wrote that 'American Experience' piece.  I apologize ... but not too much ... if the sarcasm is a bit too pointed.

Certainly not criticizing Victrola1 or anyone else here.

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Posted by carnej1 on Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:21 AM

Wizlish

 

 
Victrola1
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-scandal/

 

" ... young muckraker Charles Francis Adams"???

HOW many years before there was actually 'muckraking'???

I hate it when the wrong kind of amateurs try to do revisionist or supposedly topical history.

 

"The Wrong Kind of Amateur"? What; like Trackrat?......

Hmmm, hope I'm not feeding the Trolls...

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Posted by Wizlish on Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:04 AM

Victrola1
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-scandal/

" ... young muckraker Charles Francis Adams"???

HOW many years before there was actually 'muckraking'???

I hate it when the wrong kind of amateurs try to do revisionist or supposedly topical history.

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Posted by Victrola1 on Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:55 AM

How to fund it all?

"For Union Pacific executive Thomas Durant, it was a money-making machine. It was a revolutionary business model previously unknown on American soil."

Even with hedge funds, Wall Street ain't what it used to be. 

"We Should Not Be Interfered With"
On the strength of renewed profits and a declared dividend, Credit Mobilier boomed. Congressman Oakes Ames, representing company interests on Capitol Hill, soon found himself overwhelmed with legislators demanding a piece of the action."  

Hope still springs eternal in the public sector. 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-scandal/

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Posted by csmith9474 on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:56 PM

SmileWe're doing just fine, thank you.

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Posted by ouibejamn on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:54 PM
Well I said something very clever at the start of this thread, but it takes awhile to get approval. Now the moment has passed. Perhaps I need to stop with the obscenities (place smiley face emoji here).
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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:44 PM

Considering the responses from our posters who are rather familiar with why freight railroading is in its current situation, I am confident that the following makes much more sense than the original post made:

Mairzy doats and dosy doats, the liddle lamsedivy, a kiddlydivy too, woodn't ju? A kiddlydivy too, woodn't ju?

For a translation, consult with Norris. 

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Posted by Wizlish on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 7:02 PM

These trains run to St. Mary's, or maybe Buffalo

As they roll right into Newark, oh never do they slow.

As we hear 'bout Colorado, members give an awful whine

They tell his concept's woeful, the Trackrat's brand new line...

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Posted by Wizlish on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 6:49 PM

ACY

From the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide Pacific shore,

From the green & growin' mountains to the south belt by the shore,

She's mighty tall & handsome and she looks so mighty fine.

It's a wondrous waste of money; it's the Trackrat's brand new line. 

Listen to the jangle of the syntax that's a bore

As he keeps on bringing up so many subjects we abhor

Hear the mighty rush of the trolling, hear proposals not so fine

As we navigate semantics of the Trackrat's brand new line...

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Posted by samfp1943 on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 6:43 PM

ACY

My head hurts.  I'm not interested in playing "Link the Losers" tonight.

T.

 

That post, done by the O.P. is not only hard to decipher; while having it make any sense: [It requires a certain level of psychotomimetic (delta-9 THC) the (mindbending) ingredient of marijuana] to be able to read it and understand it.  Too sick to even try it now. Blindfold 

 

 


 

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 6:34 PM

April Fool's Day was 2 weeks ago . . . Whistling

More seriously:  3,000 miles coast-to-coast at $10 million per mile (WAG method estimate) = $30 Billion, about half the cost of Calif.'s HSR, roughly the value of each of the 6 big Class 1's (I think ?), and smaller than a lot of the Fortune 100 crowd (IIRC) and many Washington, D.C.-sponsored programs and initiatives, etc.  So on the raw numbers, it's not like a moon shot, although the interest costs until it started earning money would eat the project alive.  And remember Sen. Everett Dirksen's aphorism about "A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon you're talking about some real money !". 

BUT, the opposition from the Class 1's (remember the DM&E's attempts to get approval for a line into the Powder River Basin ?), a tough showing of public need and necessity, environmental objections, right-of-way acquisition challenges and practical impossibilities across Federal and Native American lands, etc. - ain't gonna happen in the lifetime of anyone now living.       

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Posted by billio on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 3:11 PM

This is a tough to answer, but I'll take a whack at it.

One piece at a time. My comments will be italicized so readers can decipher them.

 

trackrat888

Its 2015 and its been 100 years since that last class 1 railroad was built in this country.

So far, so good.

Our current railroad system is at capasity... and poorly run.

Yep, capacity over parts of the existing national are strained a bit, but the carriers that operate those segments are doing their best to add capacity and make the system more fluid.

...and poorly run.

Disagree.  I believe that the quality of management in place on the Big 7 (BNSF, UP, CN, CP, NS, CSX and KCS) is so far ahead of where it was back in the days of ICC regulation that there's no comparison.

The railroads that were built in the Great Lakes region where built on glacial fill. I-80/I86 is bumper to bumper with trucks despite passing thry no major population centers.

Won't contest what the Heartland Railroads were built on.  And I haven't travelled I-80 (never got to I-86) lately, so I cannot comment on whether it is at capacity.  Keep in mind that I-80 was built fwith this in mind, though; it passes about as directly from New York to Chicago as could be prudently built from scratch.  This was almost explicitly (almost, because nowhere have I seen it claimed overtly) as a freebie to Mother Trucker.  So the road being crowded with big rigs comes as no surprise.

But Conrail and NS down graded the Buffalo Line and even cut it in half at Philldelphia...

Not sure what you mean by "the Buffalo Line."  If you refer to the ex-PRR, North Jersey to Chicago, that route never went anywhere near Buffalo.  And by cutting it in half at Philadelphia becomes meaningless, bordering on nonsensical.  If you refer to the ex-NYC Water Level Route between North Jersey and Chicago, CSX owns it from somewhere in Ohio to NYC, via Buffalo, and has not downgraded it at all; in fact, it represents a key part of their route structure.  So, to repeat, I'm not sure what you mean here. 

...and Erie is cut at St. Marys PA.

Yes, the ex-EL as a trunk line died during the Conrail reorganization, a product of poor operating characteristics and a victim of being one of too many routes linking NYC and CHGO, and if St Marys, PA is where it ends, I;m sure you're correct.

It can take as long as 12 hours just to cover the last 60 miles into Newark New Jersey.

Here your argument loses me.  Into Newark from where?  Via which route?   Absent these small but key bits of information, we're off in the clouds.

On the west end in Chicago trains have to be unloaded and reloaded because that is actualy faster then having a train attempt to pass through the city.

I assume you refer to intermodal and stack trains, on which the boxes and trailers which are ticketed through Chicago are unloaded at one railroad's terminal and drayed (hauled by truck) to the next terminal for loading to their destination.  This process, thankfully for shippers, does not apply to manifest traffic.  The reason this operation occurs is that railroads take on single shipments at, say, North Jersey, bound for, say, the Bay Area, and nobody runs through trains from these two points because it doesn't pay them to.  Why?  Not enough traffic to make a train, maybe.  Freight forwarders and shipment consolidators may get a better rate by aggregating trailers to Chicago and re-aggregating them to the destination on another carrier.  Traffic is like water; all other things being equal, it tends to flow where the rate is lowest.  Barring some Eureaka! moment that results in a better (lower cost) way of doing things, this practice is unlikely to change. [Ed. Note:  I've kinda winged this part; if anyone can improve on it, I'd sure appreciate your input.]

St Louis is prone now to civil unrest and LA is prone to labor unrest.

Well, yeah, but problems like these, whether they apply to rail traffic or not, simply happen from time to time, as do acts of God (floods, tornados, blizzards, etc.), so it is unclear what these have to do with your thesis.

Railroads wont take short haul freight under 400 miles...

Not necessarily so.  Depends on the commodity and the rate.  Think of coal, grain moves, often for distances of less than 400 miles.  For other traffic, especially truck-competitive traffic, why won't the railroads take on the business?  Maybe their bean counters have figured out that it's almost impossible to make any money, so stay out of that market.  The pre-Staggers railroad that was required to hall everything everywhere, at a rate imposed by the ICC, regardless of whether it paid the railroads to carry the freight, is long gone.  Thankfully.

...and therefore is useless for alleviated congestion in the Northeast.

Probably so.  If states want to alleviate highway congestion, then tax the trucks.  A good policy question.

They wont work with Utlities to have power lines and railroads share right of way and power.

When possible, railroads are pleased to have utilities share their right-of-way.  Hey! Anything to have your physical plant sweat a few more dollars in revenue.   Regarding sharing power, I assume you mean, first, building the electric power grid alongside main lines, and then, electrifying the lines so that the railroads have available a ready source of juice to power their trains.  Great idea, only one problem:   Money, Money, Money.  Well, call it three problems, 'cause I said money three times.  The cost of rebuilding the power grid, of buying all new locomotives, and stringing up electric wires to power the trains is massive.  Where's it -- the money, the capital, the big bucks -- going to come from?

As fas as passenger trains RR management know that there mode is so unsafe that they wont let themselves or there kids ride it and prefer company private jets for there family outings.

Aside from the fact that a handful of railway executives -- we're talking COEs here -- command the oompf to rate the corporate jets, the IRS takes a dim view of using company assets for family excursions.  Someone in the know would be bound to blow the whistle and raise a ruckus.  Regarding the safety of their mode, I think it's a whole lot better than 30 years ago, when the general condition of raodway and rolling stock had deteriorated to the point that it was a national disgrace.  So I don't think the safety of the mode is as bad as you would have us believe. 

Railroads average median speed for freight is 15 miles per hour. The actual route miles are 20-30% more then the freeways that are built next to them. Despite what I could go on and on with a litney of complaints which everyone here knows and could add on the Class Ones actulay made a small but reasonable profit. My first choice for a transcon would be the Philly and Erie and then the PLE/ Erie to Akron OH rebuild the Erie west of there. My second choice would be the West Shore and then a new railroad in the medium strip of I-90. The National Grid Power Lines right of ways could also make a good right of way as well.

 

trackrat888

Its 2015 and its been 100 years since that last class 1 railroad was built in this country. Our current railroad system is at capasity and poorly run. The railroads that were built in the Great Lakes region where built on glacial fill. I-80/I86 is bumper to bumper with trucks despite passing thry no major population centers. But Conrail and NS down graded the Buffalo Line and even cut it in half at Philldelphia and Erie is cut at St. Marys PA. It can take as long as 12 hours just to cover the last 60 miles into Newark New Jersey. On the west end in Chicago trains have to be unloaded and reloaded because that is actualy faster then having a  train attempt to pass through the city. St Louis is prone now to civil unrest and LA is prone to labor unrest. Railroads wont take short haul freight under 400 miles and therefore is useless for alleviated congestion in the Northeast. They wont work with Utlities to have power lines and railroads share right of way and power. As fas as passenger trains RR management know that there mode is so unsafe that they wont let themselves or there kids ride it and prefer company private jets for there family outings. Railroads average median speed for freight is 15 miles per hour. The actual route miles are 20-30% more then the freeways that are built next to them. Despite what I could go on and on with a litney of complaints which everyone here knows and could add on the Class Ones actulay made a small but reasonable profit. My first choice for a transcon would be the Philly and Erie and then the PLE/ Erie to Akron OH rebuild the Erie west of there. My second choice would be the West Shore and then a new railroad in the medium strip of I-90. The National Grid Power Lines right of ways could also make a good right of way as well.

 

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Posted by ACY Tom on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 7:57 AM

From the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide Pacific shore,

From the green & growin' mountains to the south belt by the shore,

She's mighty tall & handsome and she looks so mighty fine.

It's a wondrous waste of money; it's the Trackrat's brand new line.  

(It ain't sudden, Schlimm.)

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 7:08 AM

Deggesty

 

 
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What a d --- a-- thread. Where do these trolls come from????

 

 

 

 Cleveland.  Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.  A kid'll eat ivy too.  Wouldn't you? Its 2015 and its been 100 years since that last class 1 railroad was built in this country. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it still make noise?  Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth to this country that we are the champions my frined.  And we'll keep on fighting 'till the end.  Who let the dogs out?  Who? Who? Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed.  Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed.  The one day, he was shootin' at some food on a three hour tour, with Giligan, the Skipper too, the milionaire, and his wife.  If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.  Plop plop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.  You too can have ring around the collar.  Only her hairdresser knows for sure.  Where's the beef?  I suppose I could collect my books and head on back to school, or steal my Daddy's que, and make one small step for man, one giant step for mankind.  And she's buying the stairway to heaven, cause he ain't hevay, he's my brother.  But don't you step on my blue suede shoes.  And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon.  That big 8-wheeler rolling down the track means you're sweet lovin' daddy ain't a comin' back and I'm movin' on.  Any questions?

 

 

 

 

 
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diningcar

What a d --- a-- thread. Where do these trolls come from????

 

 

 

 Cleveland.  Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.  A kid'll eat ivy too.  Wouldn't you? Its 2015 and its been 100 years since that last class 1 railroad was built in this country. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it still make noise?  Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth to this country that we are the champions my frined.  And we'll keep on fighting 'till the end.  Who let the dogs out?  Who? Who? Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed.  Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed.  The one day, he was shootin' at some food on a three hour tour, with Giligan, the Skipper too, the milionaire, and his wife.  If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.  Plop plop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.  You too can have ring around the collar.  Only her hairdresser knows for sure.  Where's the beef?  I suppose I could collect my books and head on back to school, or steal my Daddy's que, and make one small step for man, one giant step for mankind.  And she's buying the stairway to heaven, cause he ain't hevay, he's my brother.  But don't you step on my blue suede shoes.  And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon.  That big 8-wheeler rolling down the track means you're sweet lovin' daddy ain't a comin' back and I'm movin' on.  Any questions?

 

 

 

Norris, did you really read the first post to this thread? I took  one look at it and told it to chase itself. I am sure your response made more sense; it brought pleasant memories to me--just as my eating lunch last Wednesday with people I knew from before I was in kindergarten and others whom I knew on through high school did (two of the then girls lived next door to me, and a third one and I went to church together).

 

 

  Read It?  More like translate it.  I'm saving it to enter in the fair.  I figure I've got a blue ribbon coming my way for the longest run-on sentence in the "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.........' category. Mischief

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Posted by schlimm on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 6:59 AM

Deggesty

 

 
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Ohio River Troll strikes again. Thumbs Down Thumbs Down

 

 

 

Would that he would strike out. 

 

Considering his usage of the English language, he probably would not understand the above. Can we ask the umpire to throw him out?

 

trackrat, aka ohiorivertroll/polishfalcon, et al. has been posting for weeks.   The moderators apparently decided to give him a pass and many members have been responding.  Why the sudden outrage now?

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 6:44 AM

Norm48327

Ohio River Troll strikes again. Thumbs Down Thumbs Down

 

Would that he would strike out. 

Considering his usage of the English language, he probably would not understand the above. Can we ask the umpire to throw him out?

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Posted by Norm48327 on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 4:57 AM

Ohio River Troll strikes again. Thumbs Down Thumbs Down

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 1:22 AM

Murphy Siding

 

 
diningcar

What a d --- a-- thread. Where do these trolls come from????

 

 

 

 Cleveland.  Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.  A kid'll eat ivy too.  Wouldn't you? Its 2015 and its been 100 years since that last class 1 railroad was built in this country. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it still make noise?  Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth to this country that we are the champions my frined.  And we'll keep on fighting 'till the end.  Who let the dogs out?  Who? Who? Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed.  Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed.  The one day, he was shootin' at some food on a three hour tour, with Giligan, the Skipper too, the milionaire, and his wife.  If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.  Plop plop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.  You too can have ring around the collar.  Only her hairdresser knows for sure.  Where's the beef?  I suppose I could collect my books and head on back to school, or steal my Daddy's que, and make one small step for man, one giant step for mankind.  And she's buying the stairway to heaven, cause he ain't hevay, he's my brother.  But don't you step on my blue suede shoes.  And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon.  That big 8-wheeler rolling down the track means you're sweet lovin' daddy ain't a comin' back and I'm movin' on.  Any questions?

 

 

Murphy Siding

 

 
diningcar

What a d --- a-- thread. Where do these trolls come from????

 

 

 

 Cleveland.  Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.  A kid'll eat ivy too.  Wouldn't you? Its 2015 and its been 100 years since that last class 1 railroad was built in this country. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it still make noise?  Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth to this country that we are the champions my frined.  And we'll keep on fighting 'till the end.  Who let the dogs out?  Who? Who? Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed.  Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed.  The one day, he was shootin' at some food on a three hour tour, with Giligan, the Skipper too, the milionaire, and his wife.  If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.  Plop plop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.  You too can have ring around the collar.  Only her hairdresser knows for sure.  Where's the beef?  I suppose I could collect my books and head on back to school, or steal my Daddy's que, and make one small step for man, one giant step for mankind.  And she's buying the stairway to heaven, cause he ain't hevay, he's my brother.  But don't you step on my blue suede shoes.  And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon.  That big 8-wheeler rolling down the track means you're sweet lovin' daddy ain't a comin' back and I'm movin' on.  Any questions?

 

 

Norris, did you really read the first post to this thread? I took  one look at it and told it to chase itself. I am sure your response made more sense; it brought pleasant memories to me--just as my eating lunch last Wednesday with people I knew from before I was in kindergarten and others whom I knew on through high school did (two of the then girls lived next door to me, and a third one and I went to church together).

Johnny

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