Thursday, June 01, 2023

unusual design for a bridge

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The Kawazu-Nanadaru Loop Bridge, in Japan, is an example of how to build a bridge from one mountainside to another when the sides of the mou...

I just learned there is a high speed rail project from Washington DC to Boston... but they haven't replaced the old freight tracks yet, and high speed trains aren't going to work well at high speed on crappy old tracks, and for 2 billion dollars, they saved one hour travel time

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Amtrak’s $2 billion effort to replace its fleet of Acela express trains on the Washington-to-Boston corridor has hit a foreseeable snag: The...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

on his Memorial Day fishing trip to Cheney Reservoir in south-central Kansas, a fisherman discovered an 80s Jeep 15 ft underwater

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A woman reached out about about the vehicle. Her Jeep disappeared in 2007 or 2008, and she wondered if it was hers.  The Sedgwick County She...

fads don't make much sense, and too many trucks are bought be insecure people scared of driving a car, who instead should have bought vans

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the world is a strange place where people do strange things for strange reasons https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=640548991447864&set...

The college football team, Georgia Bulldogs, have had an oddly large number of players busted for reckless driving and high speed tickets. 9 in the last 14 months.

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receiver Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint busted 90 in a 45 Chandler LeCroy was speeding excessively, reaching 104 mph, just before a fatal crash Car...

Hagerty now has a weekly "original owner" article.... a new series showcasing people who bought a classic car new and still own it. The cars don’t need to be factory-original, just still in the hands of the first owner and still getting driven.

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In the summer of 1969, Ray Eugenio was 19 in army service in Vietnam. He was stationed at the 29th Evacuation Hospital on an airbase and ord...

This was all Apple Tv had to show to indicate that Masters Of The Air is still on track to be released eventually... but they mention nothing of what year, what month

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https://tv.apple.com/us/show/masters-of-the-air/umc.cmc.7bxcni0vwgll9kmicq738k5q2

built by Frank Mack and it starred at the first Detroit Autorama in 1953, the track nose was made from two ’41 Chevy fenders

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https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/6-hot-rods-from-the-3-dog-garage-collection/

What can they do with a nice old train station when the train companies go out of business? This one was made into a library, and like the original train station, the roof is slate, the gutters are copper, and the doors are made of white oak

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The Mount Pleasant Community Centre is in a restored historical Canadian Pacific Railway station that has been converted into a cultural fac...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

about when, do you think, did the driver notice the parachute fell off his truck at the starting line?

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ouch... is that why the government subsidizes electric cars?

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Pennzoil had a series of "graphic" 5 qt oil cans

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https://www.proxibid.com/Check-the-Oil-Promotions/Check-the-Oil-Show-Auction/event-catalog/238400?p=3&sort=0#cnTb

Someone collected outboard oil cans, thermometers, 5 qt cans, oil bottles, and clocks - and the whole collection has now come to auction

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I've never seen bottles in this shape and size before Just a few examples  https://www.proxibid.com/Check-the-Oil-Promotions/Check-the-O...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Blanche Noyes (1900-1981) had 75,000 air markers constructed as chief of the FAA Air Marking Staff in the 1930s and 40s

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(on Kennedy's immediate left (to the right of him from our perspective))   Her time as a pilot and co-pilot, beginning in 1928, back whe...

90 minutes of Sick Week coverage, the "unlimited class" are all in the mid 6 seconds. Skip the first 4 minutes. Thank you Terry!

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21:25 to 22:20 for the fails, which are entertaining be sure to see the Corvette at 34:45, which carries the wheels a long way, then blew th...
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Kentucky Derby Festival Great Bed Races

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those warm you up, this next video is full coverage, skip the first 3 minutes

I've never seen a fire fighting rig like this

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  https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3137238173259655&set=pcb.3137238666592939

Crookston Mn has annual Ox Cart Days to celebrate the Ox carts that once plodded through Crookston on their way from Canada to St. Paul. They were the long-haul truckers of their day

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The weeklong community festivities every August include kids lemonade stand contest, car cruise, kids tractor pull, smores fest, lip sync co...

pretty far out different

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one of the prettiest things about the night, is the way colored lights are so mellow (christmas tree lights are the very best). So I wish you all a good night, catch you tomorrow

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=200372012936246&set=pcb.200372052936242
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Sunday, May 28, 2023

legit reason to carry black spray paint and entry point into graffiti art

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=197660973172726&set=gm.3378379519139040&idorvanity=2226215167688820

'53 COE truck made into a Futurliner tribute, made by the Dreyer & Reinbold Indy race team’s Carmel, Indiana, shop to use it for hospitality use at the Indy 500 and Indianapolis Colts games.

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The legacy of the Dreyer and Reinbold family dates back to the 1920s with Reinbold’s grandfather, the legendary Floyd “Pop” Dreyer, a former...

Joel Wagener, made an ice cream van, and 2 of his children with Down syndrome help out on the truck children and community, because he realized that the truck offered a future for them after they aged out of the school system.

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"At every stage, with special needs kids, you look towards the future and what's their life going to be like in the next phase,&quo...

I don't often come across nice photography like this

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10223870028518825&set=a.1617402035143

well made

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  https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10223871093465448&set=a.1617402035143

May banners

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