Has anyone caught any news as to what burned in the New Jersey fire last night. Was it stores or what. Can’t get much news here in N.C. .
Just Google “fire in new jersey” and you’ll get more than you want to know.
Was it not a Boardwalk that burned.
50 stores along the Boardwalk that had been rebuilt since hurricane Sandy in Seaside NJ.
Wayne
Yup, the Boardwalk at Seaside Heights, NJ. I guess if they want to rebuild it they should just ask MTV and the Jersey Slime cast for the money. After all, they made a fortune off the place. Why not give back? But then again, do we really want to see their faces on tv for anything again?
How much can place take. First sandy storm, then the fire. Geeez someone give them people a break already.
Very sad.
I’ll bet it was all heavily insured!
Be that as it may, what does this have to do with model railroading or trains?
What am I missing?
So what is the railroad related Connection?
Snooki and her idiots are takers. That money is long gone.
I suppose if one is so incline they could model such a blaze on their layouts and have a place for their fire apparatus models.
Just to be safe next time, they should do like Virginia Beach and just pave the boardwalk. I visited “The Boardwalk” there a few weeks ago for the first time, and was surprised to see it’s just a concrete-paved sidewalk. Not knowing the history, I assume it was actually made of genuine wooden boards at one time. Now it’s storm, rot, and fire proof and easier to maintain.
(PS - sorry to keep feeding the [#offtopic] beast!)
It is in New Jersey. There are trains in New Jersey. How hard can that connection be?
Just to keep things in perspective, The BNSF runs only one mile from my furry friend here.
Here is a photo of Bushy LION catching a ride at Ft. Hancock. The fort occupies about one city block in Bismarck, it never consisted of more then a railroad siding and a barracks. It was the staging point fro troops headed out to World War I
Trains are EVERYWHERE…
ROAR
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Bismarck (and Mandan) were growing before the oil boom: fewer people on the farms, more in the cities.
Out west where we are, Dickinson is bursting at the seems with new apartment construction every which way, and hundreds of new businesses in town. Even here in Richardton we are feeling the effects. Now a company wants to draw water from our lake for fracking. Well, it is OUR lake, 100% on our property, so we will get plenty of access royalties (if we let them do it), and actually we have more water than in the past since clean used water from the ethanol plant enters our lake. In the more distant past we shut off the siphons in the summer, more recently they were running all of the time.
You might not see any growth in Dickinson on Google since they do not update their images as fast as we can build. I’ll have to take a look in there, but they are still missing half of the BOE terminal west of Dickinson. (Bakken Oil Express) just to keep things on the railroad topic, even though we seem to have gotten away from the New Jersey Boardwalk (which isn’t there again anyway.
ROAR
Every time I hear someone singing the praises of Fracking I am reminded of that old native warning:
“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.”
And without oil you will freeze to death hungry, because all of agriculture requires oil to run the machines and deliver the produce.
Fracking in this part of the world is two MILES down, the water table is less than 1/4 mile down if that.
Cheep energy is the source of life as we know it on this planet, without it we could only sustain a 1700s population if that. Not that that is a bad thing mind you, but it is not going to happen.
So we will drill for oil (and jobs) and ship that oil to you on TRAINS (since the government insists on sticking its head in a pipe).
All Aboard!
ROAR
I stand by my post.
Why was the boardwalk buildings rebuilt without firewalls, sprinklers and with matchstick construction.
Oh that’s right an election is coming up and “We are stronger than the storm”
That is apolitical, all the dirtbag politicians would have done the same thing.
Now they want more money.
Harold
Just a bit off topic: 60% of all gas & oil wells worldwide are hydraulically fractured, the first well fractured was in 1949, where were all the naysayers back in the '50’s ? ? Fracturing is and has been am integral part of the oil business for a long time.