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Mailman said:
Re Itchyboots: You know something else that just amazes me , she just has this friendly open personality that seems to put complete strangers at ease, in a way that I think few guys could pull off. To see her ride into some tiny 3rd world village and approach a local person that she’s never met, and the next thing you know they have invited her into their home and they are sharing their food with her like she’s an old friend.
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Like one of the latest ones I watched she is out in the middle of nowhere in the desert of Morocco and comes upon a tent with a family living there and asks if she could just get a bit of water as she was a little low. She not only gets water but large chunk of homemade bread.

Other times she will be traveling in the middle of nowhere and come across a lady cooking up who knows what over an open fire and ends up with a meal better that some fancy restaurant might be surviving!
 
kshansen said:
Like one of the latest ones I watched she is out in the middle of nowhere in the desert of Morocco and comes upon a tent with a family living there and asks if she could just get a bit of water as she was a little low. She not only gets water but large chunk of homemade bread.

Other times she will be traveling in the middle of nowhere and come across a lady cooking up who knows what over an open fire and ends up with a meal better that some fancy restaurant might be surviving!
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That also speaks to the humanity of different folk from all around the world. A smile and a kind word offered, truly is universal and will usually be given back in equal measure.
At least that's been my experience also...
 
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There might have been alcohol involved.

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Wyoming 1885, trains were required to maintain 4MPH while crossing.
There might have been prayer involved.
 
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The Portageville railroad bridge spanning the Genesee River gorge at Letchworth State Park has been part of the scenery for 140 years.
This afternoon, ground will be broken as engineers get ready to build a new, $70 million dollar bridge about 75 feet south of the current one.
Norfolk Southern Corporation spokesman Dave Pidgeon says the historic 1875 bridge is a tribute to the craftsmanship of the 19th century. But the old span can't handle modern freight rail transportation.
"Without this line, rail transportation becomes enormously difficult for those who need it - agriculture, manufacturing, stone, other products. Now, once this project is one, this line remains a viable part of the regional economy."
Pidgeon said the new bridge will not only allow heavier freight cars to travel faster over the gorge, it will enhance Letchworth’s iconic views.
"The scene three or four years from now will be this beautiful steel arch bridge that will not touch the river. It will open up the scenery as you look up into the gorge from the viewpoints up here at the upper falls."
 
gggGary said:
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The Portageville railroad bridge spanning the Genesee River gorge at Letchworth State Park has been part of the scenery for 140 years.
This afternoon, ground will be broken as engineers get ready to build a new, $70 million dollar bridge about 75 feet south of the current one.
Norfolk Southern Corporation spokesman Dave Pidgeon says the historic 1875 bridge is a tribute to the craftsmanship of the 19th century. But the old span can't handle modern freight rail transportation.
"Without this line, rail transportation becomes enormously difficult for those who need it - agriculture, manufacturing, stone, other products. Now, once this project is one, this line remains a viable part of the regional economy."
Pidgeon said the new bridge will not only allow heavier freight cars to travel faster over the gorge, it will enhance Letchworth’s iconic views.
"The scene three or four years from now will be this beautiful steel arch bridge that will not touch the river. It will open up the scenery as you look up into the gorge from the viewpoints up here at the upper falls."
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I've walked across that old bridge a couple times, probably in the 1970's or 1980's! when it was only 100 years old!
 
gggGary said:
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The Portageville railroad bridge spanning the Genesee River gorge at Letchworth State Park has been part of the scenery for 140 years.
This afternoon, ground will be broken as engineers get ready to build a new, $70 million dollar bridge about 75 feet south of the current one.
Norfolk Southern Corporation spokesman Dave Pidgeon says the historic 1875 bridge is a tribute to the craftsmanship of the 19th century. But the old span can't handle modern freight rail transportation.
"Without this line, rail transportation becomes enormously difficult for those who need it - agriculture, manufacturing, stone, other products. Now, once this project is one, this line remains a viable part of the regional economy."
Pidgeon said the new bridge will not only allow heavier freight cars to travel faster over the gorge, it will enhance Letchworth’s iconic views.
"The scene three or four years from now will be this beautiful steel arch bridge that will not touch the river. It will open up the scenery as you look up into the gorge from the viewpoints up here at the upper falls."
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$ 70 000 000 is a lot of money.. for some steel and Welding ---- Drawings from some other bridge somewhere.
 
gggGary said:
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it will enhance Letchworth’s iconic views.
"The scene three or four years from now will be this beautiful steel arch bridge that will not touch the river. It will open up the scenery as you look up into the gorge from the viewpoints up here at the upper falls."
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Rare, (nice), a company is so concerned about bridge's visual impact on the environment and thinks of the affect on the populous :thumbsup:
 
Back in the late 80's i worked on the construction of a Crocodile farm. Part of it was going to be a dingo enclosure with a replica of the Phantoms skull cave in it that housed bats and and Avery.

Skull cave was to be a fero cement structure made of 16mm galvanized reo bar covered in netting. It is 30' in diameter and 30' high.

We were to span the reo bar over the pole and then push out the side by hand to make the structure. This was by order of the site engineer. This is a guy who has been to university, (he wasn't young), and wouldn't listen to the welder, me or anyone else when we told him this wasn't going to work..........

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