Always wanted to spend some quality time there I'm envious.
That's an ominous warning. No matter how times they sweep a site there's always the one that got away Digging down 3+ feet doesn't get them all...
Heard stories about another WW1/2 military site in Jersey that assembled artillery shells. After heavy rains sometimes old shells be visible on the site... in the mud. Corroded ordinance can be very dangerous...
Old black powder vaults that still have black powder are insanely dangerous. The potassium nitrate can form crystals over the decades making it so sensitive even the slightest movement can set it off.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Re: So Many Rules! (aka - don't tell me what to do) < Reply # 181 on 3/3/2020 2:08 AM > | Reply with Quote
Tobyhanna State Park in Pennsylvania is built on a former artillery range.
About 30 years ago it closed for awhile after some kids found some unexploded bazooka rounds and took them home. I don't think they exploded or anything, but it did cause quite a stir.
In case anyone wants to know what it means to HUMP in a railroad context.
When you see a freight train go by, there's a way to tell if a freight car has been humped or not.
After a freight car is started rolling over the hump in a hump yard, it goes through a series of retarders that slow the car down so it stops in the correct place or doesn't impact another car with too much force. The way the retarders work is to push brake pads against the sides of the wheels.
Therefore, cars that have been humped, the sides of the wheels are shiny from being retarded in a hump yard. On cars that have not been humped, the sides of the wheels are rusty.
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Fetish? What fetish?
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Re: So Many Rules! (aka - don't tell me what to do) < Reply # 195 on 6/11/2020 3:22 PM > | Reply with Quote
My brother consulted for a couple of years on the control system for this thing.
As a result I know too much about hump yards. They're a bizarre mix of computers, sensors and software, mixed in with a bunch of very antiquated but reliable technologies.