Re: (rshsdepot) Rare Pre-Civil War Railroad Building Demolished

[Jay Underwood <jp.underwood_@_ns.sympatico.ca>]

Are these politically inspired posts and foul language really necessary?
Jay Underwood
Elmsdale NS

Paul Luchter wrote:

> Developers would demolish the Pantheon, the Parthenon, anything, they just don't give a crap
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> 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
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> And for all who love these people running our land, well you end up eating off your own tail eventually don't you?
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> 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
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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
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> : "The building survived the Civil War, only to be razed 150 years later due
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> : 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
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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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The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org

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