The differences in humour. Rich doesn’t get my joke. 
David
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From AI:
“Lay on the horn” means to continuously honk a car horn, essentially pressing down on the horn button for an extended period, usually to get someone’s attention or express strong annoyance; it’s a slang term that emphasizes the insistent and forceful nature of the honking.
I know.
The differences in humour either side of the pond.
I shall not explain 
David
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WOW just watched this video David amazing it is so cool how he fades from the video to old photos that place was huge the goods sheds the turntable the engine works Leeds was a manger railroad hub. hard to believe it open in 1840 and lasted into the 1970’s.Going to watch the next video now thanks
Chuck
David another great video amazing viaduct, here is a picture of the viaduct across the river from me.it.s the Bellaire Stone Viaduct in Bellaire Ohio
the last photo is the bridge crossing over the Ohio River into Benwood W.V.
Chuck
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Great pictures Chuck.
Holbeck Viaduct is around a mile long.
Farnley Viaduct was over five miles long. I saw pictures of it years ago, but cannot find them now. I shall keep looking.
David
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yes please do would love to see them those stone Viaducts fascinate me
Chuck
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Chuck Not the one I was looking for but, part of Farnley Viaduct.
photograph by Stephen Craven
David
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Yes - wagon or ‘waggon’.
And ‘lift’ means elevator, not jacking arrangement.or ‘hoist from above’.
As I recall, there wee elevators for cars on the Chicago tunnel system. There were NOT car elevators in the Starrett-Lehigh Building – although they did have 30’ truck elevators (the boxcars would be crossdocked into trucks if freight needed to go to upper floors).
I vaguely remember something about cars being lifted at Reading Terminal. And trailer/container lifts were a feature of the Farley Post Office at Penn Station. But actual lifting of railroad cars ‘from underneath on their wheels’ for attention at an elevated warehouse level doesn’t seem to be common even in the era of ‘railroad-centric’ freight handling.
I suspect this is a matter of car weight as well as ownership. English four-wheel waggons were comparatively light and short, and many belonged to individual companies rather than the railroad (this was a factor in the pathetic braking provided for freight trains there) so there was less of an issue furnishing ‘lifts’ for them, probably counterweighted on the dumbwaiter principle.
I have read arguments that something like a vertical lift-bridge structure would be suitable for car elevator use. I can’t think offhand of a lift bridge that could be operated with cars actually remaining on the span.
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The Metropolitan West Side Elevated in Chicago had an elevator in its two-level Throop Street/Racine Avenue shop just west of the Loop. Demolished to make way for the Congress (now Eisenhower) Expressway around 1954. The four track Met main line split into separate two track east- and westbound sections to pass the shops and adjacent power plant.
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thank you, this is the first time I have heard of a lift or elevator for train car . I worked in a power plant they would dump coal cars on a roll that spun the car and section of track together.
Chuck
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thank you David are shops inside the arch ways?
Chuck
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In a number of them. People selling various items. Auto Repairs.
David
David that neat great use of space thank you.
Chuck
The Dark Arches.
Rumours are they stretch all the way to Kirkstall Abbey
and you can get lost when inside.
The Dark Arches in 19 photos - An engineering wonder of Leeds
David
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