http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnBmueLDu2I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oR-JsuZxzI
I heard the only person Chuck Norris was ever afraid of was .....Eleanor Roosevelt.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
So if Eleanor really was a Democrat, would she be more likely to take the Broadway or the 20th Century Limited?
Bonus question:
On a scale of 1 - 10, how happy was Franklin?
Victrola1 Bonus question: On a scale of 1 - 10, how happy was Franklin?
Mercy, mercy Lucy Mercer.
DING, DING, DING and big cigar to an under employed History major?
Check out the latest "Trains News Wire". They are going to power the Heartland Express with a 20% mixture of rendered beef tallow and 80% Diesel. A revolution in "MOO-tive Power", methinks. Aargh! Sorry about that.
Hays
That's the greatest thing to help win the war since synthetic rubber. Eleanor will personally present your "E" award.
Victrola1 At midnight Eleanor's train left Washington bound for Chicago, and Lucy's train left Chicago bound for Washington, both traveling at constant speeds on adjacent tracks. Eleanor's train took 12 hours to complete the trip, and Lucy's train took 16 hours to complete the trip. At what time did Eleanor and Lucy pass each other??
OMG I just flashed back to high school.
One thing CAN be determined:
If the trip takes somewhere between 12 and 16 hours, then it MUST be Amtrak.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Johnny
Not sure the distance but to make it easy, say 768 miles in 12 hours at 64 MPH and in 16 hours at 48 MPH. If Eleanor's train left Washington at 11 P.M. Central Time and Lucy's train left Chicago at 1 A.M. Eastern Time, I think they passed around 6:45 to 7 A.M. Eastern Time.
At about 6 hours and approx 50 minutes. Did not figure it to the last decimal point, but here is the algebra:
Total distance is 12 hours times speed of Elanore and 16 times speed of Lucy
D = 12SE = 16SL SE is Elanore's speed, and SL is Lucy's speed. In miles per hour
So SL = 3/4SE or 0.75SE
The meeting point is DL = HSE = D-HSL where H is the time (hours)
So D = HSE + HSL = H1.75SE
So 1.75HSE = 12SE
So H = 12/1.75 = 6.86 hours, approx 6 hours and 50 minutes
Eleanor was a Democrat, and, as such, she always took her personal (read: United States Air Force Boeing 747) aircraft. If she ever would have had to take the train, it would, naturally, have been the Broad Way Limited. The New York Central never serviced Washington, DC and the management was a bunch of capitalist Republicans.
BNSFwatcher Eleanor was a Democrat, and, as such, she always took her personal (read: United States Air Force Boeing 747) aircraft. If she ever would have had to take the train, it would, naturally, have been the Broad Way Limited. The New York Central never serviced Washington, DC and the management was a bunch of capitalist Republicans. Hays
Eleanor Roosevelt died in 1962. She never even SAW a Boeing 747.
Phoebe VetEleanor Roosevelt died in 1962. She never even SAW a Boeing 747.
Had Franklin lived longer, would Eleanor have nationalized America's railroads in his 5th term?
Speaking of monkeys....... Did the makers of the Wizard of Oz intentionally make those creepy winged mokeys to look like Stukas diving on Polish refugees?
How many P-40's would fit a standard flat car in 1942? Would Eleanor's train take the siding to expedite vital supplies to the front?
I see from the latest news that those here who were insisting that the Ethanol scam would not affect meat prices due to the increased demand and prices for feed grains, were talking into their hats (again)
Convicted One I see from the latest news that those here who were insisting that the Ethanol scam would not affect meat prices due to the increased demand and prices for feed grains, were talking into their hats (again)
Perhaps if tobacco farmers grew the corn for the ethanol...
Had a few minutes on my personal computer which has the math (simple arithmatic) program and found the correct answer to be 6 hours and 51.42 minutes.
Of course we have been assuming the trains run at constant speed. Otherwise things get more complicated and a complex computer program would be required. Like those some railroads have to assist in dispatching.
Hey, thanks for the Bill Robinson funeral photos. Any photos of either NY or DC that show streetcar conduit track is much appreciated. Even without the streetcars.
The track on 125th Street was used by the 125th Street crosstown, the Third and Amsterdam, and the Kingsbridge-Broadway-Amsterdam-125th line. Earlier, before the photo, by the Willis Avenue line in addition. Rode those tracks often
Times square tracks by the Broadway-42nd Street "B" line.
Thanks!
"So, in the late spring of 1933, the federal government carried out "emergency livestock reductions." In Nebraska, the government bought about 470,000 cattle and 438,000 pigs. Nationwide, six million hogs were purchased from desperate farmers. In the South, one million farmers were paid to plow under 10.4 million acres of cotton"
The relevancy of Eleanor Roosevelt never ceases to amaze.
Murray OK Kids...with the blessing of the moderators here, we have our very own thread about nothing. Think of it as the "Seinfeld" of threads. Please keep it clean....humorous....and even rail-related if you can. Have fun!
OK Kids...with the blessing of the moderators here, we have our very own thread about nothing.
Think of it as the "Seinfeld" of threads.
Please keep it clean....humorous....and even rail-related if you can.
Have fun!
"Eleanor Roosevelt, indeed, in a syndicated newspaper column of September19, 1945, wrote: “We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.”
Did Eleanor prefer steam to diesel?
Murphy SidingMurray OK Kids...with the blessing of the moderators here, we have our very own thread about nothing. Think of it as the "Seinfeld" of threads. Please keep it clean....humorous....and even rail-related if you can. Have fun! Just a note......Let's not let this turn into a political thread, or GASP! A serious thread !!!
BULL MOOSE PARTY 2012!
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What did the Gummint do with all the critters? This, when thousands of Americans were starving? Sounds like the butter buy-out of later on...warehouses full of the stuff! Well, it is not recommended that you eat cotton, but... Guess I'll have to read the cite, when I'm in a good mood.
Other than NYC and DC, did any other cities have center conduit power pick-up tracks? I guess I'll have to call them "streetcars", ILO "trolleys", for the time being. Can't remember anyone saying "streetcar" in NYC, even though there was no trolley wire or pole on most of them, but that don't mean much. Most of the denizens still say "Grand Central Station"! No one says "fire hydrant": "Johnny pump" is the terminology. Even Eleanor said that! Was there a streetcar/trolley over the Willis Avenue Bridge? That was always my favorite way to sneak out of Manhattan and avoid tolls! Used the Third Ave. Bridge coming into town. Anything to save a quarter, or whatever.... Wasn't the X-town 42d Street line the "X" car? Fun times, again!
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