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Re: (rshsdepot) Rare Pre-Civil War Railroad Building Demolished
Developers would demolish the Pantheon, the Parthenon, anything, they just don't give a crap
My fave at moment is the committee chairman in Congress who is planning to punish any Republicans who vote for Amtrak by taking away
any transit/transportation funds for their district...I don't see why we give bleep to Putin about democracy, sounds like the kind
of stuff he does anyway.
And for all who love these people running our land, well you end up eating off your own tail eventually don't you?
Paul
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernie Wagenblast" <brwagenblast_@_comcast.net>
To: "Rail Depot List" <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 4:30 PM
Subject: (rshsdepot) Rare Pre-Civil War Railroad Building Demolished
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: From Preservation Magazine.
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: Photo available at:
: http://www.nationaltrust.org/magazine/archives/arc_news_2005/022805.htm
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: Bernie Wagenblast
: Transportation Communications Newsletter
: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications
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: Rare Pre-Civil War Railroad Building Demolished
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: Story by Carolyn Galgano / Feb. 28, 2005
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: The Alabama town that legendary engineer Casey Jones once called home has
: lost a piece of railroad history.
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: One of only three pre-Civil War railroad structures in the South, the Mobile
: & Ohio Machine Shop in Prichard, Ala., was demolished earlier this month. In
: mid-December, workers began dismantling the brick, shed-like building with
: open arcades and a raised skylight, built in 1851.
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: "The building survived the Civil War, only to be razed 150 years later due
: to ignorance and indifference," says Robert Gamble, senior architectural
: historian for the Alabama State Historic Preservation Office.
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: In 1993, the state's department of transportation gave the city a $750,000
: grant to turn the site into a museum honoring John Luther "Casey" Jones.
: Yet, with insufficient support from city officials, plans never came to
: fruition, and owner Jack Stallworth demolished the run-down machine shops.
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: "The problems were not insurmountable, had the city been able to get behind
: turning the idea of a museum into a reality," Gamble argues.
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: Yet preservation requires local involvement. "You need to get organized, get
: one person in charge, and go with it. No one was there to pick up the ball,"
: Gamble says. "The Mobile & Ohio machine shops went down so quietly and so
: unnoticed."
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: The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
: railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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