Well, here's one...
Posted on 02/03/2015 6:27:08 AM PST by MasterMason
I just re-joined FR and I would like to post to my local NC state board but I am not able to. How do I get the ability to do that?
Lifting the train grade a foot is not possible there, it would be prohibitively expensive.
If memory serves, that is higher speed rail there, so the train grade has to remain close to same level/percentage incline.
So they’d have to raise the grade one foot for quite some distance both directions.
They looked into it at one point and said “holy crap”.
GPS is ALWAYS more reliable than those stupid signs...
So I am told, often at my job by drivers insisting I don’t know where it is that I work.
;-)
I suppose if they fixed it ,it would be the end of such quality viewing.
It was really interesting when they detoured I-84 down Route 6 through beautiful downtown Port Jervis due to a fatal accident on the Delaware River bridge. A lot of truckers were soiling their pants.
You need to get withing 300 feet of the bridge to see the magic sign that proclaims "Actual clearance 13' 6" "...
Well, here's one...
It would!
If I recall, they dug down through near two feet of pathetic pavement jobs to repave.
And the signage does suck as you mention.
Not politically correct, that sign.
Where’s the Arabic chickenscratchings so your muzzie drivers can understand it??
A bird that sounds like someone blowing air over a moonshine jug top.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dsasOfFUcA
It is just to old and long in the tooth to care about that kind of thing. :)
Have heard them in the wild.
Spent the night on Stewart Island and a few nights later in Doubtful sound, it is really weird as the call booms up the canyon.
The Kea is quite a different beast,
They are a sharp as a six year old, but ten times more mischievous.
They will drink from beer cans, rip the blades from your windscreen wipers, and pull the valves out of your wheels.
It doesn`t end there ....they can remove Screws from wood.
And i swear they understand English.
Had one hide under the Camper van, Looked underneath and just told it to *off, not shouting, and it did!
They look at you with a knowing stare....they know alright.
Seems to me they had to go down quite a ways (not sure it was two feet though) because the old trolly tracks were still in the pavement under who knows how many layers of asphalt. They dug up the original brick pavers too.
Don't know how much they lowered the roadbed, but Metro North raised the bridge by putting at least another 6" of bearing blocks under the beams. (That on top of a previously installed raising block of who knows what vintage..)
Another interesting tidbit is that even though that section has been single tracked for whoknows how long now and thus the second span is no longer used, when they raised the bridge they raised both the active and unused spans (instead of removing the unused span for scrap.) Tends to indicate they have an idea that they may need to relay that second track at some future date. Probably after the Portageville Bridge is rebuilt.. ;-)
(That info for any Ferroequinology buffs out there. ;-)
And they finally pulled the old trolley tracks out near the old Neversink trolley bridge.
Of course, during that last flood they had a house float down the river and flex the bridge by six inches.
Nice colors!
Ah, the bird was looking for trouble.
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