Getting to Kentucky
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fbhjrTuesday night we set off for Kentucky as soon as I got back from work. Instead of going out through New York State and down through Ohio as we've done several times before, we decided to go south through New Jersey and Pensilvania, then turn right in Maryland and go through West Virginia. The milage wasn't very much different, there were less tolls, and we had never been that way before.
But, it went through Connecticut. We should have remembered this means traffic.
And, it did.
The good news was that, unlike the week before, it was only a short slow down not a stop for an hour.
Soon, we were going through New Jersey.
We cut sideways across New Jersey into Pensilvania where we stopped for the night.
In the morning we were driving through the PA farmlands near where they filed "Signs".
We knew we had driven a long way, but hadn't realized we had drive all the way to Scotland.
That bridge across the Atlantic really speeds past. But, we came back and went through the Appalachian mountains instead.
It is pretty easy to tell where the highway goes through the mountains.
Even with the hole through the mountains, you're still a fair ways above the land to the sides.
There were signs about bears and deer, but we didn't see any. Sad.
We stopped for lunch and gas in West Virginia. I guess the Wendy's there have to use lower case L's. It took me a minute to realize that was the problem.
As we were there, this strange thing went shooting down the train track. Don't know what it was.
We also found there is a whole chain of "Tudor's Biscuit Worlds". I have no idea what it is as we had never heard of them before.
Maybe next time we'll try one.
They even have their own car.
When we got to Kentucky we still had a ways to go. There was one section of at least 10 miles where it was just one lane.
I don't think they can do any construction anywhere else in Kentucky as they used all the safety barrels there.
But, we finally got here.
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pallid_regina met us for dinner and we had a nice visit.
Now, we rest. Then more visiting tomorrow.
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Date: 2013-07-04 02:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-04 02:39 am (UTC)Say "hi" to Kentucky for me. I miss it.
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Date: 2013-07-05 03:08 am (UTC)The railroad equipment you saw looks alot like one of the machines that was used when I spent a summer working on the railroad in Vermont for the Canadian Pacific RR project - they were repairing and replacing about 100 miles of track along the northeast border of the state. The machine (I cannot recall the technical name at the moment) used lasers to measure that the tracks were level, left to right, parallel, and consistent grade according to the engineering specs. The machine was used could also "adjust" the rails' positioning by simply reaching down with claws and grabbing them - shoving them in the necessary direction(s) to be correct.. this is generally needed after new ties and ballast (all that crushed stone) is put down, even if the rails aren't changed.
If it was zooming along they weren't likely measuring the rail positioning, probably just checking that the crossing signal switches are all working properly - these have to be checked daily and the maintenance guys can "drive" these things but are not authorized/allowed to run a locomotive on the railway -> they are (2) completely separate unionss, and they have all the traditional union turfwars you can imagine.
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