[AT] Old trains

[Al Jones]

Charlie I stayed on the west side of campus all 4 years of
undergrad--Sullivan the first year, Bragaw for two, and Lee the last
semester before I student taught.  (I was a complete idiot for going to
Lee, we had gotten A/C in Bragaw by then but I had a chance to room with a
friend of mine and he was too cheap to spring for the extra $$ to be in an
air conditioned dorm.  I had lucked out the semester before and not had a
roomate, and figured if I stayed I would get some design-o with purple hair
that talked to the trees and wouldn't eat meat.)  I was on the "leg" of
Bragaw facing Weaver Labs so the train wasn't very noticable there, and it
wasn't so bad at Lee either.  Sullivan was a different story.  Fortunately
I'm a pretty heavy sleeper so it only took me about a week in Sullivan to
get to where I could sleep through the trains.  We were on the 8th floor,
looking down on the tracks and the back lot of Carolina Equipment Company,
so it was kinda interesting to watch the trains come thru, and also see
what kinds of heavy machinery was lurking around at Carolina
Equipment---though they were on their way out by then. 

Al


> [Original Message]
> From: David Bruce <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 12/7/2009 10:10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains
>
> 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"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > 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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