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| | | Thing that jumps out about rail yards for me is that rail yards and stations are a evolutionary process. -Moved sheds(or just the posts) to disused rails that are unconnected and overgrown. -Heaps of rails and ties, parts of cars, engines and (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: I'm looking for ideas... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Great observation! This is true, at least in the US, for all large industrial concerns, but especially so for capital intensive industries like rails with large physical plant, and long lived assets which are so numerous that it is easy to (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: I'm looking for ideas... —James Powell
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| | | | (...) Nothing beats the Germans though. They lost a electric loco. It showed up, 2 power systems away, in Italy. Oops. And it was a _major_ headache to retreve. But, it took them like 2 _years_ to notice that it was missing. James (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: I'm looking for ideas... —Nicholas Allan
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| | | | "James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:G80uIn.5JG@lugnet.com... <snippage> (...) up, 2 (...) You couldn't give me some more details about this so that I can look up the incident on the 'net. Quite an achievement to lose (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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