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Re: According to the Ceremony in Ogden Who's who??? Casement and Strobridge...
Author: You forgot
Date: 05-09-2019 - 21:21
Bob,
What about Anschutz?
BOB Wrote:
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> Yep, it's all true...the good, the bad, and the
> ugly.
>
> This feat came from amazing vision, foresight,
> engineering expertise, and practical applied
> determination. representing the best of America,
> and American capitalism, combined with the greed,
> deception, self dealing, political chicanery, and
> dishonesty of the worst of America, and American
> capitalism... We're a funny people, that way...
>
> The better built CP (had to be to operate over the
> Sierra) did survive (as the SP) the RR crash of
> 1894, when the by then, poorly built and
> dilapidated UP finally went belly up, to be bought
> up and reorganized by Harriman's trust, and be
> nearly completely rebuilt (as with parts of the
> SP).
>
> This as you say, eliminated miles of early
> "terrain following" mainline, with straighter
> faster shorter realignments made cost effective
> and possible by better construction methods and
> technologies like concrete for culverts, iron and
> steel for bridges, or "new" technologies, like the
> use of steam shovels to build fill, or make cuts,
> or the use of dynamite, over black powder and
> nitroglycerine used by the CP to do the Sierra
> tunnels.
>
> The use of nitroglycerin was experimented with by
> CP, but had to be abandoned, as no one had yet
> figured out to make it safely usable, by making it
> into dynamite. The SP drilled holes in the rock,
> poured in unstable liquid nitroglycerin, tamped in
> black powder to set it off, and while it move way
> more rock, had to be abandoned, because pouring
> the unstable nitroglycerine into the hole and
> tamping it down with the black powder would set
> the stuff off, and gave rise to the phrase that
> you didn't have a "china-man's chance" of
> surviving.
>
> Like the moonshot, almost exactly 100 years later,
> which we all watched live on "Sheriff" John
> Permar's "new fangled" portable TV at the Taylor
> Roundhouse Turnout, on a planet far, far, away, a
> long time ago, this was truly one of the major
> accomplishments of the American experiment.
>
> Thank God, those thieves built something so
> remarkable, lasting, and useful.
What about Anschutz?
BOB Wrote:
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> Yep, it's all true...the good, the bad, and the
> ugly.
>
> This feat came from amazing vision, foresight,
> engineering expertise, and practical applied
> determination. representing the best of America,
> and American capitalism, combined with the greed,
> deception, self dealing, political chicanery, and
> dishonesty of the worst of America, and American
> capitalism... We're a funny people, that way...
>
> The better built CP (had to be to operate over the
> Sierra) did survive (as the SP) the RR crash of
> 1894, when the by then, poorly built and
> dilapidated UP finally went belly up, to be bought
> up and reorganized by Harriman's trust, and be
> nearly completely rebuilt (as with parts of the
> SP).
>
> This as you say, eliminated miles of early
> "terrain following" mainline, with straighter
> faster shorter realignments made cost effective
> and possible by better construction methods and
> technologies like concrete for culverts, iron and
> steel for bridges, or "new" technologies, like the
> use of steam shovels to build fill, or make cuts,
> or the use of dynamite, over black powder and
> nitroglycerine used by the CP to do the Sierra
> tunnels.
>
> The use of nitroglycerin was experimented with by
> CP, but had to be abandoned, as no one had yet
> figured out to make it safely usable, by making it
> into dynamite. The SP drilled holes in the rock,
> poured in unstable liquid nitroglycerin, tamped in
> black powder to set it off, and while it move way
> more rock, had to be abandoned, because pouring
> the unstable nitroglycerine into the hole and
> tamping it down with the black powder would set
> the stuff off, and gave rise to the phrase that
> you didn't have a "china-man's chance" of
> surviving.
>
> Like the moonshot, almost exactly 100 years later,
> which we all watched live on "Sheriff" John
> Permar's "new fangled" portable TV at the Taylor
> Roundhouse Turnout, on a planet far, far, away, a
> long time ago, this was truly one of the major
> accomplishments of the American experiment.
>
> Thank God, those thieves built something so
> remarkable, lasting, and useful.
