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To: Signalman
Pipelines from TX to AZ and NV are being built but won't be finished until 2029.

Meanwhile " Big Inch" a 24" pipeline was built from Texas to Linden, New Jersey with the first order for pipe made July 2, 1942 and the first oil reaching Illinois by the end of that year.Oil reached a terminal in eastern Pennsylvania in August, 1943

A longer 20 inch line for refined products was started in 1943, and product was delivered March 2, 1944.

Too bad equipment to do that kind of pipe laying apparently doesn't exist now.

5 posted on 02/01/2026 12:06:54 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

The AI data center near Pittsburgh will have two 36” pipelines feeding it.


7 posted on 02/01/2026 12:35:26 PM PST by meatloaf
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