[AT] Old trains, now NC State

[charliehill]

LMAO Gene.  You wouldn't believe how things have changed.  When I was a 
Freshman at state you could go about 4 miles north of the center of town and 
you were in country that looked as if only the indians had ever seen it 
before.  Now North Raleigh is closing in on the state of Virginia.  Well not 
exactly but it's about half way there.
You can pass through Apex and never know you left Raleigh or Durham or 
Chapel Hill for that matter.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Waugh" <GWaugh at wowway.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains, now NC State


> Geez, guys, you keep giving me flashbacks to the time Dad (he was with
> the college from about 1948 - 1957) was Head of the Animal Husbandry
> Dept at NC State---We lived out of town a ways on a couple acres, did
> 2nd grade - part of the 6th grade in Apex.  Based on Google Maps, THINGS
> HAVE CHANGED a little!
>
> Gene
> Elgin, Illinois USA
>
>
> David Bruce wrote:
>> I remember that one also but I was already awake <g>.
>> David
>> NW NC
>>
>> charliehill wrote:
>>
>>> The down grade braking didn't bother me near as bad as the up hill pull
>>> going out of town.  I've been told that grade along Hillsboro street is 
>>> one
>>> of the steepest rail grades on the east coast.  The trains typically had 
>>> 4
>>> engines pulling and 2 pushing.   I think that west bound freight went 
>>> out
>>> about 3AM (sometime in the middle of the night).  Just about the time 
>>> we'd
>>> all get back to sleep the two pusher engines would wake us back up going
>>> back to the yard.  It didn't help that every kid in the dorm (about 2000 
>>> or
>>> so) would yell at the train at the top of their lungs.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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>>> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:09 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I spent my 4 years in one of the highrise towers and watching RFD fight
>>>> a fire along the right of way about  30 feet from my dorm was
>>>> "interesting" to say the least. the least.  That 2:30AM (or so east
>>>> bound train always woke me up that first year. Headed down the grade to
>>>> the station with all the cars banging against the car couplings as the
>>>> brakes were engaged.  It was quite a bit different from my home county
>>>> which still has no railroad track at all.
>>>>
>>>> The balloon fest had gone on for several nights and after a close call
>>>> with the roof of our dorm my roommate and I decided to skip the last
>>>> lift off - turned out to be a wise idea.  He was the stereotypical
>>>> "preacher's kid" and always into some sort of mischief.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>> NW NC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> charliehill wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> David, his might have been heading for the train also as you know but
>>>>> most
>>>>> others don't the railroad track is just a few yards past those dorms 
>>>>> as
>>>>> you
>>>>> walk from the intermural fields.
>>>>>
>>>>> As for those balloons, I had never seen those small, light weight hot 
>>>>> air
>>>>> balloons until just this weekend.  On some news program they were 
>>>>> showing
>>>>> a
>>>>> world record attempt in Taiwan or somewhere.   The sky was full of 
>>>>> those
>>>>> things.
>>>>>
>>>>> Charlie
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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