This is interesting
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Topic: This is interesting
Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Subject: This is interesting
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 2:49pm
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I haven't really posted about this much, but my dad has been in the process of buying a new building for his bicycle shop, since the local landlords are asking far more than his business can pay for a lease.
Well, it's been up and down over the last year or so, every week a new incident happens or something finally goes through. But now I hit the part that, if I was still a naive little kid, would immediately flip out and ignore the potential for disaster here. Apparently, back in the 1940's the railroad tracks that run next to the building had a siding that ran to the loading dock (which explains why it's a good three to four feet above the ground). Well, the person who bought the property after World War II decided they didn't want the three tanker cars parked there. So instead of having whatever served as the central railroad authority back then come and take them away... they dug a pit in the ground and buried all three. Now the next owners discovered them somehow, and paid to have two pulled out. But the third is at least eighty feet long. So they left it and the short section of track down there and buried it again, leaving the top exposed. They used it to dump oil from their lawnmower repair business in there. Supposedly it's all pumped out now, but it's oil, so there's probably some left. As a train enthusiast (as a child, a train maniac) I find this not just funny, but really cool. There's a train buried beneath my dad's business! Wahoo! However, now there is the possibility that they might make him pay to have it dug out and removed.. which would be the final death stroke to this project. That or a backhoe digging up the concrete that's poured over the lid could hit the tanker, and blow it up. Unlikely, but possible. So anyways, now I'm stuck wondering how many businesses around here that used to have railroad sidings have track or cars buried underneath their property. At any rate, it's an interesting piece of history. Maybe if I become rich I'll pay to have it dug up so I can keep it. ------------- Is God real? You'll find out when you die. 
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Posted By: Random_Person
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 2:54pm
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thats cool ------------- http://profile.xfire.com/kentuckyfriedgangsta"> 
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Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 2:55pm
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i gave up reading after the first two paragraphs sorry it was just soooo boring ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
Posted By: Death~By~Paint
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 2:57pm
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there could be bodies in there too... ^^^^lazy ------------- 
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Posted By: Project Irene
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 3:43pm
| yeah, I'm bored to |
Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 3:48pm
That's pathetic. Truly, truly pathetic. EDIT:
More patheticalness. And stuff. Geez, it's not like I wrote a friggin essay or anything. That was a fairly short post for me. ------------- Is God real? You'll find out when you die.
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FROG MAN wrote:Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 3:56pm
| Thats kinda cool, to bad its ganna cost a poo load of money. |
Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 4:01pm
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Well, we don't know that yet. The city might finally decide that my dad's been through enough already, and I don't think it's an environmental hazard.
We'll see. ------------- Is God real? You'll find out when you die.
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Posted By: For Honor
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 4:13pm
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for the lazy, im taking the bullet of expressing energy for you, i know you would do the same for me his dad has a train under his business ------------- 
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Posted By: Ejp414
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 4:19pm
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Hmm, odd. In a way, that's very cool. On the other hand, I really hope your dad doesn't have to move it. Good luck with that! ------------- __________________ __________________ |
Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 4:38pm
| thats quite interesting..thats gunna suck if they make your dad pay to move it |
Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 5:42pm
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Hey cool, it's actually underneath the building itself. So basically it's impossible to get to anyway, so looks like we won't have to take it out.
Apparently the strange manhole cover we never figured out is the fill station. The concrete outside is just.. concrete. ------------- Is God real? You'll find out when you die.
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Posted By: TRAVELER
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 6:28pm
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My uncle buried one beneath his business back in the 60's to use as a bomb shelter. It turned out to be a cool place to have parties, there was room for at least twenty people, and no matter how loud you turned up the music, no one outside could hear it. ------------- For I will wander to and fro, I'll go where I no one do know, |
Posted By: Nick13
Date Posted: 27 August 2004 at 7:09pm
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thats interesting.
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Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Date Posted: 01 September 2004 at 10:11pm
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Ahahahahahahahahahahah!!!
Turns out the "tanker car" was left from the 20's when the building was a gas station, and the "gravel car" was a scale for weighing trucks.. just without the center pad. Boy, we feel dumb now. ------------- Is God real? You'll find out when you die.
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Posted By: ump107
Date Posted: 01 September 2004 at 11:24pm
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If you father is leasing it should be the property owner’s problem not his. A lawyer would know more but if I was him I would tell the landlord to go fly a kite in a lightning storm ------------- Tippman 98 Custom 14" J&J Ceramic Barrel BT-16 Barrel kit BT-Folding stock JT USA Spectra ProShield "If you must runaway do so quietly; Screaming looks bad on the news.” (unknown) |
Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 02 September 2004 at 5:41am
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OMG U POST IS 2 BIG AND BECUZ I SUCK REEL BAD IM NOT KONNA READ ITZ BECUZ I SUCK LoL!@ Pretty interesting Senn, unbury that fool and play paintball in it. |
Posted By: jdna12
Date Posted: 02 September 2004 at 6:36am
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You may have just found Jimmy Hoffa. ------------- The sky darkens. In the distance you can hear the roar of the A-5. You shudder for you know it soon will be here. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 02 September 2004 at 7:50am
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heh heh that's still kind of funny if you think about it. I'd try to empty and clean it all out if I were you. It'd be a neat place to mess around.
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