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Old 10-28-2012, 04:36 PM   #40
piercehawkeye45
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Minnesota
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lamplighter View Post
Now talks are underway to convert/add those tracks into "high speed"
rails for trains carrying coal to a coastal port in southern Oregon.

The NIMBY crowd in this small, highly affluent and influential bedroom community of PDX are gathering.
... a new bridge... jobs... noise... coal dust... d-a-n-g-e-r... think of OUR children...
My Ph.D. research involves high speed rails. Get that shit done. I want work when I'm done here.
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