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Re: how bad are the answersfor the initial question
Author: WAF
Date: 12-31-2021 - 19:42
OneMarketPlaza Wrote:
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> Norden Norton Wrote:
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> > FullertonDave Wrote:
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> > > Back in the late 1960's SP had 5 rotaries
> > stationed in Roseville and 2 in Sparks.
> >
> > That was back in the "old days" when they ran a
> > lot of trains over Donner Pass. Times have
> > changed. There's not nearly the amount of rail
> > traffic running on the Overland and Feather
> River
> > routes as there used to be. Remember the "Ford
> > Fast"? That was when we had automobile
> assembly
> > plants. Remember the "Salad Bowl Express"?
> That
> > was when the railroads were interested in
> hauling
> > perishables. I could go on.
> >
> > [youtu.be]
> >
> > The Overland Route is covered at the 29:52
> mark.
>
> The rotaries are relics of the past and expensive
> for the railroad to operate - especially with
> their own employees, many of whom are nothing but
> useless "feather-bedders." They should be removed
> and scrapped, and non-union contractors with their
> own equipment brought in.
Said like a true white shirter at One Market. Only problem is, how many snow wars have you fought?
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> Norden Norton Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > FullertonDave Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Back in the late 1960's SP had 5 rotaries
> > stationed in Roseville and 2 in Sparks.
> >
> > That was back in the "old days" when they ran a
> > lot of trains over Donner Pass. Times have
> > changed. There's not nearly the amount of rail
> > traffic running on the Overland and Feather
> River
> > routes as there used to be. Remember the "Ford
> > Fast"? That was when we had automobile
> assembly
> > plants. Remember the "Salad Bowl Express"?
> That
> > was when the railroads were interested in
> hauling
> > perishables. I could go on.
> >
> > [youtu.be]
> >
> > The Overland Route is covered at the 29:52
> mark.
>
> The rotaries are relics of the past and expensive
> for the railroad to operate - especially with
> their own employees, many of whom are nothing but
> useless "feather-bedders." They should be removed
> and scrapped, and non-union contractors with their
> own equipment brought in.
Said like a true white shirter at One Market. Only problem is, how many snow wars have you fought?
