Yeah - I just hate the word “disassembling.” Although none of us really wanted to be on the trip…
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‘dissembling’.
Yeah - I just hate the word “disassembling.” Although none of us really wanted to be on the trip…
Actually, even if ‘dissemble’ hadn’t come to mean wildly different in English, you’d still need ‘disassemble’ as the proper opposite of ‘assemble’. In large part because you presume there was assembly completed to get the thing completed wherever it is, and that assembly is in fact what you’re ‘undoing’ when you take it down, not ‘making it (or its parts) disappear’ … in other words, you don’t have just two contrasting prefixes on a root -semble.
Don’t you love grammar and semantics on a railroad forum?
Back in the 1970’s/ early 1980’s there was a “BN Annual” railfan publication. One of the issues featured this line. I remember a photo of an SW-something with some street running stopped at a parking meter in front of a grocery store. I’ll have to look to see if I still have that issue.
- PDN.
I love a sense of humor - especially a subtle one. I hope you find the picture.
Paul,
That would be a great photo if it included the engineer feeding the parking meter. [:)]
Aside from reduction of the older workforce, which is happening nationwide, the reason there is young numbers at lonely locations like ND or WY is no one really wants to be there. The BN side does not have the five yr recall SF does. This creates vast scatters of trainmenat some norhern locations who elect to go elsewhere. There are condrs w/ 10,000#s holding quite well at places like Edgemont.
10,000# conductors? Shouldn’t they have their own special car, like a…well, like a caboose?
I should have been more clear on referring to 10,000. Conductors currently marked on the Edgemont west pool are on NH99 roster which began 1/4/99. This roster systemwide is up around 10,000 condrs ( number of condrs BNSF has hired since 1999). The number of 10,000 is toward the bottom of the list. Hence, the low seniority is takes currently to hold at that location
That abandoned line was the Milwaukee Road’s route to Rapid City. The rail line that is still there north of I-90 is ex-C&NW.
That’s the Milwaukee Road! If you go about 5 miles east of Rapid City, there was a siding that held maybe 4-6 cars. When I was a kid there was a sign there that said ‘Murphy Siding’.
For those interested in anything related to SD railroads I strongly suggest the book “Railroading in the Land of Infinite Variety.” The title comes from the old state nickname. Published in 1990 it’s author is Rick W. Mills, now the Director of the SD Railroad Museum in Hill City in the heart of the Black Hills. The museum is the old train depot and is located with the Black Hills Central Railroad Rick also has a book “125 Years of Black Hills Railroading” that has a lot on the old High Line from Edgemont to Deadwood.