QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton Say! Next spring the UP hauls a leaking covered hopper of seed corn over the same route. Share prices jump!! Jay
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon Great.....more homeless beavers trying to wash car windows at stop lights.
QUOTE: Originally posted by dehusman I bet he has more chemicals hit his property from overspray and drift from adjacent fields. Dave H.
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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
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QUOTE: Originally posted by mloik QUOTE: FOTFLMAO! mloik - you will have to translate. that is beyond my internet vocabulary. dd
QUOTE: FOTFLMAO!
QUOTE: Originally posted by dldance 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? About 20 years ago, UP had a tanker load of elemental Phosphorus (not phosphoric acid) leak into the yard at Soda Springs Idaho (I can't remember the cause). Phos. is shipped under water (thus the tank car) to prevent spontanious combustion. So when the Phos. hit the ground and dried out - it started on fire. The local fire dept. came and properly wet down the site - putting the fire out. UP cleaned up the spill by removing all the ballast and the top 3 feet of dirt under the contaminated track. The contaminated soil was buried in a landfill. All of this was done while periodically wetting the site to prevent Phos. fareups. So in removing the ballast and soil, UP first pulled the rails and ties. The rails were set aside for reuse and the ties were neatly stack along the ROW for later disposal. Now remember that the ties were soaking wet from the fire suppression efforts. Along comes a local who sees a stack of used ties - which he appropriates for a planned fence. He loads the ties into the back of his pickup and parks the truck in his garage. The ties dry out and the Phos. fares, burning down his house. Now the local has some real explaining to do: UP - theft of RR property EPA - unauthorized removal of hazmat Insurance Co - why I burnt down my house. Fortunately no one was injured. dd
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 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? Yes, but it was about twenty years ago, a terrible chemical spill near Beaumont, TX. The land was vacant and unusable for several years until a company came in and scraped the soil and took it someplace in Canada...not sure where though.
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.
QUOTE: Originally posted by mloik QUOTE: Originally posted by dldance Along comes a local who sees a stack of used ties - which he appropriates for a planned fence. He loads the ties into the back of his pickup and parks the truck in his garage. The ties dry out and the Phos. fares, burning down his house. Now the local has some real explaining to do: UP - theft of RR property EPA - unauthorized removal of hazmat Insurance Co - why I burnt down my house. Fortunately no one was injured. dd FOTFLMAO!
QUOTE: Originally posted by dldance Along comes a local who sees a stack of used ties - which he appropriates for a planned fence. He loads the ties into the back of his pickup and parks the truck in his garage. The ties dry out and the Phos. fares, burning down his house. Now the local has some real explaining to do: UP - theft of RR property EPA - unauthorized removal of hazmat Insurance Co - why I burnt down my house. Fortunately no one was injured. dd
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe Ask the German fishing fleet about that some time. Gabe
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)]
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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 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 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 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
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