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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 22 2011, 11:35 AM (311 Views) | |
| George K | Dec 22 2011, 11:35 AM Post #1 |
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"Hell on Wheels" is an AMC series about the building of the transcontinental railroad in 1865. It's heavy on personalities, vice, corruption, prejudice and pretty light on railroad building (unfortunately). The week before last, I noticed this shot from the series: ![]() Isn't that curve just a little sharp for a transcontinental railroad? I can't see anything negotiating that at more than about 3 mph. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| JBryan | Dec 22 2011, 11:38 AM Post #2 |
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I am the grey one
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This business is not for the weak of heart. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Copper | Dec 22 2011, 11:48 AM Post #3 |
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Shortstop
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_railway_curve_radius
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 22 2011, 12:37 PM Post #4 |
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MAMIL
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I've been on that Welsh Highland Railway in Wales near Beddgelert (pronounced Bethgelert). It's an interesting trip
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| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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