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Topic: 2018 Season Stream of Completely Off-Topic Unconsciousness

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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #812 on: July 20, 2018, 04:29:15 PM »
Quote from: DevilFroggy on July 20, 2018, 01:03:54 PM
Pic was taken pretty much middle of nowhere in West/central Arizona.

And Badge as far as I know there isn't, but if your surveyors need to foul some railroad tracks to do their job I'd suggest contacting the RR at least a week in advance, letting them know exactly where/when/why you need to foul, and they can possibly arrange a window for you to allow your surveyors access without rail traffic or limiting it.

I know sometimes when utility companies need to work on power lines over RR tracks they can get these windows, same with the city/state/county when they need to do maintenance/construction on a bridge/overpass over the tracks.
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #813 on: July 20, 2018, 10:01:57 PM »
Quote from: DevilFroggy on July 20, 2018, 12:27:01 PM


Took this pic at work the other day, thought it was pretty neat.
do you know the purpose of the steel fence post?
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #814 on: July 21, 2018, 03:04:20 PM »
Mileage sign?  No left turn sign?  Signal ahead?
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #815 on: July 21, 2018, 03:05:35 PM »
"road narrows" 
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #816 on: July 21, 2018, 03:13:23 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 20, 2018, 10:01:57 PM
do you know the purpose of the steel fence post?
I'll double check next time I take a train by that location but I'm pretty sure it's opposite a mile post. Sometimes they'll put a mile post on one side of the tracks and a bare post on the opposite side.
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #817 on: July 21, 2018, 08:17:41 PM »
sounds reasonable, did see any signage on it and it looks a bit close to the track
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #818 on: July 21, 2018, 08:40:20 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 20, 2018, 11:38:01 AM
I've no problem with Stone Mountain or the confederate flag.

But, I don't see either of them as a symbol of slavery.
I can't helo but find the whole building up of those folks odd.
Just some participation trophies for folks that wanted to destroy the US. (The actual reason for their existence is more complex, obviously)
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #819 on: July 21, 2018, 11:09:13 PM »
I certainly don't know nearly as much as some regarding the confederacy, but I didn't think it was about destroying the United States
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #820 on: July 22, 2018, 05:26:24 PM »
It was meant to change it drastically of course.
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #821 on: July 22, 2018, 07:37:38 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 21, 2018, 11:09:13 PM
I certainly don't know nearly as much as some regarding the confederacy, but I didn't think it was about destroying the United States
If the confederacy had won, we'd still have slaves today.  How bout that?
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #822 on: July 22, 2018, 07:43:31 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 20, 2018, 11:38:01 AM
I've no problem with Stone Mountain or the confederate flag.

But, I don't see either of them as a symbol of slavery.
From the link:
 "In 1941 segregationist Governor Eugene Talmadge formed the Stone Mountain Memorial Association (SMMA) to continue work on the memorial, but the project was delayed once again by the U.S. entry into World War II (1941–45).[14]
In response to Brown v. Board of Education of 1954, and the birth of the Civil Rights Movement, in 1958, at the urging of segregationist Governor Marvin Griffin,[5]:21 the Georgia legislature approved a measure to purchase Stone Mountain at a price of $1,125,000. In 1963, Walker Hancock was selected to complete the carving, and work began in 1964."

I'm sure they just happened to be segregationists, and that had nothing to do with it, right?
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #823 on: July 22, 2018, 07:46:21 PM »
On a lighter note, the wiki says Stonewall Jackson's horse was named "Lil Sorrel."  Now stay with me here - also in the carving was the Confederacy president, Jefferson Davis.  On the TV show "Dukes of Hazzard", the scheming villain is named J.D. Hogg - Jefferson Davis Hogg.  And he was played by actor Sorrell Booke.  Sorrel - Sorrell !!!  Reruns of the Dukes of Hazzard are mostly gone now due to the prominent rebel flag painted on its roof.  
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #824 on: July 22, 2018, 07:51:29 PM »
maybe correct, we will never know for sure

I'm sure there's been ample speculation of how the the world would have evolved if the South would have won.

I haven't dug deeply, but there doesn't seem to be much of an opinion that the 7 states that succeeded were motivated to destroy the United States.  More of simply secession to avoid the abolishment of slavery.
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Re: 2018 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #825 on: July 22, 2018, 07:55:38 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on July 22, 2018, 07:43:31 PM


I'm sure they just happened to be segregationists, and that had nothing to do with it, right?
segregation and slavery obviously can be linked, but they are different things
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