[AT] Old trains

[charliehill]

Al, I lived in 1301 D Sullivan my freshman year.  Top floor, east end of the 
building, luckily front side of the building away from the track.  Then I 
went to 50x I forget which suite.  Maybe 503 C I think.  I spent a couple of 
summer school sessions in Bragaw in the S/E wing (closest to the Ag school)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains


> 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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