<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Max+Q" class="quote" target="_blank">Max Q</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>Or you can just wait for the bailiff to come p...
Jump to postThe impact will be large indeed. Even if the challenge is unsuccessful, rates will still go up-just more slowly than they would otherwise. If the challenge is successful, only the subsidies in the federally administered exchanges will go away. The federal government can still fund the <acronym title...
Jump to postSubpoena overrides restraining order as it is a Court Order to appear. Failure to appear can result in sanctions up to being fined or arrested and imprisoned. Restraining Orders do not apply in court itself.
Jump to postYes. Several years ago, a neighbor crashed her Great Lakes biplane on the ramp behind our hanger. Came home from dinner to find the plane sitting inverted on the ramp with one of the fixed main landing gears in the weeds near the ramp culvert. The plane remained on the ramp until the next morning wh...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/gemuser" class="quote" target="_blank">gemuser</a> (<a href="#31" class="quote">Reply 31</a>):<br/><i>It's not actually, the Boeing 737 fuselage...
Jump to postFastest I've ever driven was approximately 110 mph in a Crown Victoria. That was at night on a Tennessee back country road. Probably could have gotten up to 120 on a straight highway.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/slcdeltarumd11" class="quote" target="_blank">slcdeltarumd11</a> (<a href="#53" class="quote">Reply 53</a>):<br/><i>Amtrak does much better and ...
Jump to postInconceivable that same sex marriage will be found unconstitutional. The issue at hand deals with the legal aspect of marriage, not the religious aspect. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href=...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/747400sp" class="quote" target="_blank">747400sp</a> (<a href="#27" class="quote">Reply 27</a>):<br/><i>Now at days, trucks and trains try to wo...
Jump to postIf you don't go to NJ, you'll be fine. NYC is a safe, walkable city and the public transportation makes it easy to get around. Two must see attractions are the USS Intrepid and the South Street Seaport.
Jump to postNone of my passwords made that list. Mine are all specific to me and appear to others to be random letters and numbers.
Jump to postHere in the US, the reduction in trackage is mostly due to route rationalization post merger. However, many railroads prefer to leave the lines in place and only remove a few lengths of rail at points where the line connects to the rest of the rail network. That permits the railroad to forego mainte...
Jump to postIn many cases, rails are left in place to permit future rail service in order to attract new industry. Industries like to have the option of different modes of transportation. Customer focus depends on the specific railroad. Regional railroads generate more business handling carload shipments that a...
Jump to postOne of the other advantages of rail over truck for most containers is that many railroad routes permit the use of stacked containers. All of the major railroads are making major investments to increase clearances and permit double stack containers on more routes.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/29erUSA187" class="quote" target="_blank">29erUSA187</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Lan Chile">LA</acron...
Jump to postNo smoking/nicotine policies are also appearing in government agencies as well. Here in Southern Arizona, Pima County will soon implement a new policy that they will not hire smokers. Applicants who are smokers will automatically be disqualified from consideration for employment and if they do decid...
Jump to postTraining only works if you use it. Personally, I only open carry if I'm going to or from the rifle club. Some handguns, such as the M1911 series CANNOT be safely carried unless the firearm is cocked-in fact, you cannot engage the mechanical safety unless it is cocked. Of course, it also has a grip s...
Jump to postI take advantage of gray areas in workplace policy, especially those duties that I am assigned where I can manipulate things to get formal policy created or established the way I want it. If the supervisor askes about it, I point it out in the official policy which was approved by Administration.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tommy1808" class="quote" target="_blank">tommy1808</a> (<a href="#104" class="quote">Reply 104</a>):<br/><i>Didn't many cities in the old west r...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/curiousflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">curiousflyer</a> (<a href="#30" class="quote">Reply 30</a>):<br/><i>An Auto Train service on short-h...
Jump to post[quote=NAV30,reply=84]I STILL think that an informal (and non-binding) police interview prior to final purchase might do a lot of good? Might even be a good idea to give the 'subject' the opportunity to fire the thing before purchase? I have two lady neighbours who have (legal/registered) pistols of...
Jump to postIf you have time, go through <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor International (Municipal) (PHX / KPHX), USA - Arizona">PHX</acronym> and see the Hall of Flame firefighting museum. Technically it's in Tempe, but it is well worth the time. It's the largest private collection of fire engines and fire...
Jump to postUp in <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor International (Municipal) (PHX / KPHX), USA - Arizona">PHX</acronym>, Skytrain now links the outer parking areas and Metro light rail to the airport. Right now, the only advantage that airlines really have over passenger rail in the city pair markets such a...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/okie" class="quote" target="_blank">okie</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>With a rental car option at each of the terminat...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NAV30" class="quote" target="_blank">NAV30</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>Is it true that when they call an election in th...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/zippyjet" class="quote" target="_blank">zippyjet</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>Unlike most of the rest of the US, Arizona...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Longhornmaniac" class="quote" target="_blank">Longhornmaniac</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i>In France we used to have a ...
Jump to postBack when I lived in <acronym title="Chattanooga - Lovell Field (CHA / KCHA), USA - Tennessee">CHA</acronym>, the predominate grocery stores were still local chains-Red Food Stores and Pruitt's. Both had strong roots in the area-Red Food started out as truck grocers in the 1920s. Competition in the ...
Jump to post[ <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/seb146" class="quote" target="_blank">seb146</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i>The South was historically blue. Remember,...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Max+Q" class="quote" target="_blank">Max Q</a> (<a href="#43" class="quote">Reply 43</a>):<br/><i>That's amazing and seems somewhat impractical ...
Jump to postIt will only have a limited impact on consumer prices. The problem in the US is refinery capacity which has (and continues to) shrink. One outage and the price will go back up.
Jump to postMy first job was working as a trainman in passenger train service for a local short line in Tennessee. Started when I turned 16 and worked there through high school and college. Got promoted to passenger train Conductor my first year. Hours were long and the work quite hard. However, the pay was $7....
Jump to postAlso, don't forget that occasionally steam locomotives operate on the Metropolitan line. Most of the Met dates to the original 1863 construction and was designed to be operated by Brunel broad gauge trains. Electricity only came to the underground around 1900. For many years, freight was also transp...
Jump to postWell, many of the Cadillac ambulances were combination ambulance/hearses. Most of them were built using a limousine body style with the windows in the rear. Thus they did look like station wagons and that probably explains one of the reasons that the Cadillac based station wagons were not very popul...
Jump to postSo far this year, three of the Papa 51 Ltd. Thunder Mustangs have been written off in operational accidents. First one was N695HR (Miss Picabo) at Spanish Springs, Nevada on July 26, 2014. Airplane made forced landing on a road and struck a pickup truck. Pilot and passenger walked away with minor in...
Jump to postMost of the folks I went to school with (university) figured that the <acronym title="Taipei - Sung Shan (TSA / RCSS), Taiwan">TSA</acronym> was a knee jerk reaction and that it would turn out badly. Sorry to see that we were right. Then again, my department was Criminal Justice and we had folks tha...
Jump to postWorked for the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Old Pueblo Trolley in Tucson, Arizona. Ridden: Tweetsie Railroad-Blowing Rock, <acronym title="National Jet Systems (Australia) and Northern Air Cargo (USA)">NC</acronym>. Rode in the cab of ex-White Pass 2-8-2 No. 190. Op...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KaiGywer" class="quote" target="_blank">KaiGywer</a> (<a href="#61" class="quote">Reply 61</a>):<br/><i> it is already rumored that a Chevy deal...
Jump to postActually, police package cars are not exempt from CAFE. There is a provision where each manufacturer is allowed to manufacture and sell a certain number of vehicles annually that are non-compliant with CAFE but there are a number of restrictions involved, including no sales to the general public. I ...
Jump to postThomas and Blue Bird do build transit coaches. Thomas Built Buses originally started as the Pearly Thomas Car Company and built streetcars. The largest group of surviving Pearly Thomas cars are those that operate on the St. Charles line in NO. They were built in the early '20s and still provide reli...
Jump to postDon't know about Beech products, but the Cessna 340 through 441 have the optional belted toilet. There is a privacy curtain that will screen the toilet from all but the aftmost seat (if installed). They're not particularly useful and many owner/operators (including my folks) have the toilet removed ...
Jump to postYears ago, a friend who was with the Arizona Air National Guard scattered the cremains of a fellow pilot as part of the deceased's final request. The crew placed the cremains in the F-4's speed brake fairings so that when the brake was activated, out they would go. He was dropped over the family far...
Jump to postWell, for us in Arizona the big celebration on February 14 is Statehood Day. This year is our Centennial-February 14, 1912 to February 14, 2012. I'll be at work as the state elected not to make it a bank holiday.
Jump to postNot to mention that two of the transcontinental routes have been abandoned-the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. If the <acronym title="Bahamasair">UP</acronym> and BNSF routes become too saturated with traffic, either of these two r...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Flighty" class="quote" target="_blank">Flighty</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i> Hoover dam was built amazingly fast all thi...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PPVRA" class="quote" target="_blank">PPVRA</a> (<a href="#28" class="quote">Reply 28</a>):<br/><i>According to my dad, who has worked on some pr...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/RayChuang" class="quote" target="_blank">RayChuang</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i>In short, White Star Line would have r...
Jump to postOne major reason the HMHS Britannic sunk was that the crew disobeyed Admiralty orders and was sailing in the combat zone with the portholes opened. Once the ship began to sink, the open portholes permitted uncontrollable flooding of the shitp to occur. Had the portholes been closed, HMHS Britannic m...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/seattle" class="quote" target="_blank">seattle</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>NS has an even more signature variation of...
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