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Speaking of Portal Bridge
N.J. moves to replace key N.E. Corridor bridge
PHILADELPHIA -- New Jersey has applied for federal funding to replace the 100-year-old, two track bridge that carries Northeast Corridor trains over the Hackensack River in the Meadowlands, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Nearly 500 Amtrak and NJ Transit trains now use the swing span, known as the Portal Bridge.

Gov. Corzine's office says the application is being made through the federal government's program to advance high-speed passenger rail service.

It also was developed in collaboration with other states in the Northeast Corridor, including Pennsylvania.

The bridge is considered a chokepoint and expanding it could improve speed and increase capacity on the line, said N.J. Transit Executive Director Richard Sarles.

No pricetag was given for replacing the bridge.

(The preceding article was published August 26, 2009, by The Philadelphia Inquirer.)

 

August 26, 2009


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Snippy wrote:

The Green Team Cadillacs never smelled like venereal diseased dirty cunt until the Red Team took the flush toilets out of the Green Team Cadillacs and put in the patented N&W Bag-0-Shitters and official "Nasty Cunt" urinals.


Can't say that Cy ever smelled that particular smell so that Cy would be able to identify it by relating it to any venereal diseases of any sort.  So, it only follows that Snippy's worldly experiences are much vaster than Cy's. 

Cy will always say one thing in defense of the Bag-o-Shitters and that is that the bag, in the use of it, was far more sanitary sitting on that bag than any toilet on any locomotive that Cy was ever on.  Ever!  Now, as for the bag itself and the proper disposal of it and all that it involved, well, it's hard to argue with that part of it.  But still, Cadillacs?  HA!

 



-- Edited by Cy Valley on Wednesday 26th of August 2009 08:02:31 PM

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At the Bridge I worked at we had an "Incinolet", a toilet that
creamated your "deposit". You put this oversized Melitta
coffee filter in the bowl, and did your thing. For the first
time in your life you get a closer look at what comes out of
your body. "When" the thing was working correctly, you got
to enjoy the smell of burning piss or crap. What a treat.
The Incinolet would go tits up about every other month.
Don't want to get into what sort of mess would accumulate
before the electrician (or someone like him) could fix the
damn thing. It was also the bridgetender duty to empty the
ash tray every now and then for the Incinolet. Right.

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So it is fair to assume at some time you were Waiting For The Electrician (or someone like him) to come?

He may have been Temporarily (in) Humbolt County.

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I think I would just hang it over the side and let dinner float its way past Annacortes.

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Snippy launched a deadly Portuguese Man-0-War after exploding into one *cy's* special bags. It was puffed up and sailing in circles when last seen.

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Hoghead Bob wrote:

I think I would just hang it over the side and let dinner float its way past Annacortes.



"Shittin'n in the woods style" was sort of hard to get away with
since you were in plain view of a busy highway. On the night shift,
the urine went flying and a merge with the swift moving Snohomish
River. In the mid 90's, they moved the office to on top of the bridge
instead of trackside. Taking a leak from high above only made it better.
Still it was nightime privilage only.

 



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Ive always loves watching my used coffee/water stream its way into the mighty Columbia river from the top of the Columbia River draw.

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The river is sufficiently polluted at these points already.
No harm, no foul.

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