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  • Some quick stats about the Lawrence Depot

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    Depot Redux is an organization devoted to the preservation, and to some extent, furthering the usefulness of, the current Lawrence BNSF/Amtrak station. The depot is located across the street from my family’s business and is, to some extent, the reason I became a railfan. Anyway, they have found members of the community to open and…

  • Turnpike Bridge is coming down

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    The KTA has issued a press release. Because of the way the KTA’s site is designed, I shall quote it verbatim. Additional information is now available on the Kansas Turnpike Authority’s upcoming demolition of the original bridge structures across the Kansas River in Lawrence. The steel structures that once carried I-70 traffic across the river…

  • At least I’m trying to keep busy

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    Jerry, the primary use of the computer I previously blogged about, bought a new monitor and hard drive. I attempted to image the old hard drive onto the new one, but when I tried to get it to boot, windows didn’t like it. Therefore, I had to keep the old hard drive as-is, but I…

  • That Kind of (technology) Day

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    or… How Murphy’s Law affected me today. I had a spare hard drive that I was attempting to install on one of the Kennedy Glass PC’s because it’s hard drive was nearly full. Long story short…. The hard drive I had was a brick (had quit working), and to top it off, while I was…

  • Windows 7… initial thought

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    I took advantage of Microsoft’s limited-time “Family Pack” offer for upgrading to the new Operating System, Windows 7. I have three PCs here at the Kennedy compound, two desktops that I built from the ground up, both with Vista installed, plus an old Dell Inspiron 6000 running XP. For $30 more than it would cost…

  • Locomotives are not props

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    This afternoon, while I was mowing the Kennedy Glass property, I observed what appeared to be a photoshoot by a group of students associated with the adjacent Van Go Mobile Arts. What I found to be a problem with their photoshoot is that they choose to pose for pictures on the BNSF railroad tracks, and…

  • A record for litigation

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    Revealed on the Surface Transportation Board website recently was an appeal of a arbitration decision related to a decades old railroad merger. In the late 60s, a group of Cleveland Union Terminal employees were furloughed and sought compensation under employee protective agreements as a result of the New York Central-Pennsylvania Railroad merger. The merged railroad,…

  • Tropical trivia, 2009 style

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    With the Atlantic finally firing up tropical cyclones, I figured to add a little bit of miscellany to it: * This year begins the sixth go-around for the current Atlantic tropical cyclone names. * The fewest number of named storms in a season using this list is 7 (in 1991 and 1997, although there was…

  • Political Views Quiz

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    My Political Views (Which should Shock No One ;))I am a center-right moderate social authoritarianRight: 2.38, Authoritarian: 1.36Political Spectrum Quiz

  • Rainfall total…

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    As reported to the National weather service in Topeka… and the coordinates were entered properly this time 000 NWUS53 KTOP 211637 LSRTOP PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1137 AM CDT TUE JUL 21 2009 ..TIME… …EVENT… …CITY LOCATION… …LAT.LON… ..DATE… ….MAG…. ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. …SOURCE…. ..REMARKS.. 1136 AM HEAVY RAIN 4 SSW…