Never Stand Still

The rail industries grievance might not be 100% true if memory serves me? If I'm not mistaken I seem to remember learning in high school that the government basically gave land to the railroads to help fuel their 19 century westward expansion. I suppose that would only apply to the western 2/3 of the country? I also remember reading somewhere that the early (19th century) rail industry was boom and bust, kind of like the dot coms of the late 90's- early 2000's.

 

Alan Greenspan and company "tamed the business cycle" many in academia, economics and finance proclaimed. Oh, never mind. Lol

A lot of Americans are still licking their wounds from the economic shellacking they took in 2008, not to mention 2000.

 

I pulled this old girl last night. As you can see it still has the license plate from its CF days. For those not familiar CF had a few different ways of doing things like:

-Pintle ram built into tongue
-Wedge brakes instead of s-cam. My company has replaced the wedge brakes with s-cams on this one so no pictures.
- Spare tire counter balance.

 

Mike, do you plan on doing a series about PIE?

 

I posted those c.f. pics on fallen flags last night and the dam fone has been blowing up since !
Was nice to see the response but I gotta get some sleep lol ....shutting fone off .

 

My company use to have an old Transcon trailer with the logo still in place, unfortunately I never took a picture and it's long gone. I'm at our hub and I found a old CF dolly that still has the wedge brakes .