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QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear I think the beaver thing is GREAT. How often do railroads have serious beaver problems. I can still remember hirailing a certain regional railroad some years ago where they kept a blacksmith on staff to fabricate beaver devices for culverts and other spots where beavers cause trouble. If all you need is a few gallons of acid to run them off... Better living through chemistry...lol.... LC
QUOTE: Originally posted by rrnut282 I was just making the point that I could "deposit more fertilizer" per lineal foot than what the leaking tank car possibly did. I didn't really mean I would stand on the platform and actually do that. Not unless it was in a remote area and very dark outside and I saved some for whoever monkeyed with the independant while I was "out".
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe Man, I have to pack my brief case! Talk about an ideal client! My client, the saint who gives land to migrant workers so they can have some food of their own! Chaching! A few puppy dogs and a pet cat I wouldn't even have to convince the jury there ever was a leak. Gabe
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe I don't feel too educated right about now. Mark takes the trouble to give this great post and the entire time I am reading it all I can think of is (in a Homer-Simpson like voice): Mmmm Juicy Corn Fed Cows. I can unpack my brief case now. Gabe
QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill Uranium occurs in nature too. Do you want that added to your food? No? It used to be added to pottery glaze, which ended up in your food, which ended up in your gut. The point of organic farming is to avoid artificial substances that weren't there when the human being was first designed by nature (or God, whichever your personal ideology believes), to avoid ingesting things that are either poisonous or out-of-spec from the original design. Personally, I like eating all sorts of things that are quite bad for your health -- bacon, Necco wafers, and juicy corn-fed cows come to mind -- but I do respect the right of others to do business and eat food as they see fit. I do wish everyone would drop the "railroads were there first so they have carte blanche to do whatever they feel like" mantra. That philosophy is very dangerous; if you take it to it's next logical step, we'll be giving Native Americans the right to set up their lodges in back yards and cutting down our ornamental shrubs for firewood, followed by the Native Americans arguing among themselves that it's really the Athabaskans who own everything because they were the first across the Bering Land Bridge, etc. Besides, when the C&NW's predecessor reached Council Bluffs in 1867, there were plenty of farmers already in Iowa, so on its own facts the statement is false.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear I am still bummed that I missed the "Free Love"... LC
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe Don't be too disapointed, Mark. Many of the more active members of the "Decade of Love" got a disease. You got a job. Gabe
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe Don't be too disapointed, Mark. Many of the more active members of the "Decade of Love" got a disease. You got a job. Gabe Yeah.......My mom is still coping with what she caught back then.........me
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill Uranium occurs in nature too. Do you want that added to your food? No? It used to be added to pottery glaze, which ended up in your food, which ended up in your gut. The point of organic farming is to avoid artificial substances that weren't there when the human being was first designed by nature (or God, whichever your personal ideology believes), to avoid ingesting things that are either poisonous or out-of-spec from the original design. Personally, I like eating all sorts of things that are quite bad for your health -- bacon, Necco wafers, and juicy corn-fed cows come to mind -- but I do respect the right of others to do business and eat food as they see fit. I do wish everyone would drop the "railroads were there first so they have carte blanche to do whatever they feel like" mantra. That philosophy is very dangerous; if you take it to it's next logical step, we'll be giving Native Americans the right to set up their lodges in back yards and cutting down our ornamental shrubs for firewood, followed by the Native Americans arguing among themselves that it's really the Athabaskans who own everything because they were the first across the Bering Land Bridge, etc. Besides, when the C&NW's predecessor reached Council Bluffs in 1867, there were plenty of farmers already in Iowa, so on its own facts the statement is false. I don't feel too educated right about now. Mark takes the trouble to give this great post and the entire time I am reading it all I can think of is (in a Homer-Simpson like voice): Mmmm Juicy Corn Fed Cows. I can unpack my brief case now. Gabe
QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan Has anybody heard of hydrofluoric acid or arsenic acid solution spilling. Apparently in St.Catharines along long time ago, CN derail some horrible poisonous acid all over a farmer's field. The government made CN clean it up including replacing the farmer's soil by sending in the backhoes and dumptrucks. Just wondering if that has happened in the U.S?
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear I think the beaver thing is GREAT. How often do railroads have serious beaver problems. I can still remember hirailing a certain regional railroad some years ago where they kept a blacksmith on staff to fabricate beaver devices for culverts and other spots where beavers cause trouble. If all you need is a few gallons of acid to run them off... Better living through chemistry...lol.... LC Give it a few days and someone will be posting a homeless hobo beaver manifesto, demanding the RRs provide free access to phosphoric acid-free rail transportation within the M&M domain.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear I think the beaver thing is GREAT. How often do railroads have serious beaver problems. I can still remember hirailing a certain regional railroad some years ago where they kept a blacksmith on staff to fabricate beaver devices for culverts and other spots where beavers cause trouble. If all you need is a few gallons of acid to run them off... Better living through chemistry...lol.... LC Give it a few days and someone will be posting a homeless hobo beaver manifesto, demanding the RRs provide free access to phosphoric acid-free rail transportation within the M&M domain. His name wouldnt be KissMyCabeaver would it? [X-)][%-)][D)]
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe Ask the German fishing fleet about that some time. Gabe
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