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Gold/Mining/Energy : Peak Oil - Not If but When
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To: veritas501 who wrote (87)1/9/2011 2:20:35 PM
From: Drygulch Dan of 129
 
I must live in the West. I need space. Railroads opened up the West. Driving the last spike at Promontory, Utah - the big four Stanford, Hopkins, Crocker, and Huntington. These visionaries opened the Western third of the country.

When I was a little kid, we would drive our only car to the train station to pickup or dropoff my father so he could commute up the peninsula to the electronics industrial center in South San Francisco. This was in the early 1950s. In those days, freeways hadn't been invented yet. Bayshore was just a country road that flooded and the El Camino was the only highway linking the towns along the peninsula. Later in that decade my friends and I would play on the train trestle bridging the creek between Menlo Park and Palo Alto, we would do things like hide inside the steel structure while the train would pass by a few feet away and put pennies on the track to get them flattened. Finding the flattened pennies was always a fun treasure hunt. Kids do stupid things for fun.

More recently when we drive to Utah for the annual ski week at Snowbird, we oftentimes see the freight trains running on their parallel tracks across the vast empty valleys that stretch across Nevada.

If I had my druthers, I'd probably live on my boat for half the year and in the mountains for the other half. Unfortunately, the realities of life get in the way. Birthdays and holidays, football games, dodging hurricanes and the like drive our living situation.
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