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30 subway cars dropped off Cape May coast
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| 08.25.08
| Brian T. Murray and Wayne Woolley/
Posted on 09/05/2008 8:12:02 PM PDT by Coleus
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To: Coleus
“enlarging the nation’s most extensive artificial reef system”
Oil drilling platforms make a good marine sanctuary.
To: Coleus
>The subway cars -- each 60 feet long, 10 feet wide and 11 feet high -- were donated by
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.<
the New York taxpayers.
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posted on
09/05/2008 8:51:18 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you"--John Steinbeck)
To: Coleus
But they could have been made in homes for the homeless!
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posted on
09/05/2008 8:55:43 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(Real change actually changes something.)
To: Revolting cat!; exit82
The History Channel had a program a few years ago called
Deep Sea Detectives, and one of the episodes dealt with two locomotive engines that were found off the Jersey coast.
From what they could find, the two engines were probably built by the Seth Wilmarth Union Works of Boston between 1848 and 1855 and were likely lost at sea during a storm, either being pushed off a ship to keep the ship from going down or lost when the barge they were on sank (I support the barge theory since they are sitting side-by-side and upright).
They checked insurance records and shipping manifests, but could not find anything. In fact, the engines might not have been bound for an American destination, as the 2-2-2 wheel configuration was rare in the US, but common in England and Russia.
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posted on
09/05/2008 9:17:00 PM PDT
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton)
To: Coleus
So why can't we just dump anything in the ocean and call it an "artificial reef"?
And why don't we build more offshore oil platforms, on the basis that they'll become "artificial reefs"?
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09/05/2008 9:26:30 PM PDT
by
Question Liberal Authority
(Obama Is For People Who Write US Magazine. Sarah Palin Is For People Who Read US Magazine.)
To: All
With the price of scrap metal these days there was a better purpose for these steel subway cars.....
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posted on
09/05/2008 9:57:44 PM PDT
by
Sir Hailstone
(Just Another Bitter Republican Clinging to my Glock 19)
To: Question Liberal Authority
And why don't we build more offshore oil platforms, on the basis that they'll become "artificial reefs"? Noting supports life in the sea as well as an oil drilling platform. It's a fact the enviros can't get there puny little heads around.
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posted on
09/05/2008 10:33:44 PM PDT
by
Minn
(Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
To: Coleus
RV Habitat for the Homeless
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posted on
09/06/2008 12:19:46 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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