Working rail roads and their tracks.

[caver]

There was an illegal scrapping operation that happened out in Utah near Elberta. I think it is/was the Tintic RR. It was 14 miles of UP track.

Also a bunch of containers burglarized in this video of a passing train.

 

[MossRoad]

Who I work for is buying it and cutting it up, then selling to steel mills. It was owned by a long defunct copper mine. Who could tell who purchased it pre turn of the century?

No idea.

 

[ArlyA]

More photos from the rail recycling yard which I did get cut up today. I asked my boss for the $$$ and didn't get an answer.

Under rail plates I found a broke rail had been repaired.

rails from the Illinois steel works.

 

[FTG-05]

You mean because they think its stolen? Or difficult steel to recycle?

I *assume* it's a policy to prevent incentivizing the theft of rail road steel and iron.

 

[ArlyA]

Derailment recovery video in NW Iowa a few weeks ago. I like how they parked the Cat on the rail before they cut it. I didn't note if the truck they struck operator was hurt or not. Can anyone tell what size cats they are?

 

[MossRoad]

Nice crop of pot plants growing there...

 

[MossRoad]

 

[BravoXray]

Can anyone tell what size cats they are?

They look like older D8s to me. Maybe D9s. The sideboom equipment blocks the sides of the fuel tanks where the model number is at.
A few years ago there was a derailment near the Indiana Avenue crossing in Goshen, and Corman had equipment there to clear the wreckage and rerail the engines. I stopped and watched them rerail a GE D9-40CW using four CAT sidebooms. I can't find my pictures or I would post them, but those were marked as D8s, probably of the '80s or '90s vintage.

 

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Stuff grows wild here too as does Asparagus. Problem is, the cultivated stuff is so much better (high THC) and you get to pay for it. It would take a bushel basket of the wild stuff to get a buzz I imagine. Don't do that stuff myself.

 

[MossRoad]

Stuff grows wild here too as does Asparagus. Problem is, the cultivated stuff is so much better (high THC) and you get to pay for it. It would take a bushel basket of the wild stuff to get a buzz I imagine. Don't do that stuff myself.

Hemp was grown here in northern Indiana for WWI and again for WWII. It can't be eradicated completely. The beauty of it here, is that what grows is usually in irrigation ditches along farm fields. Plenty of light, heat, water and fertilizer. As I recall from my youth, there were many times when the area was "dry" for pot sales due to whatever reasons and the local ditch weed did just fine in a pinch.

I agree that it is not nearly as potent as stuff you can purchase legally now in some states, however, I recall it being potent enough to get stupid on one joint.

When I worked at the local airport, I was pretty close with a couple state cops who had to do aerial surveillance on pot operations. There was a group of people that would harvest the ditch week, stuff it in garbage bags, and throw it into the water in the ditches. Several miles downstream at a campground, two guys would sit there in lawnchairs "fishing". They'd snag the bags as they came floating by and hide them in a camper. Went on for a couple weeks. They all got caught.