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11-12 3:35:39	DAZed	or hop in a raft
11-12 3:35:23	DAZed	looks like you would need to know somebody.
11-12 3:35:07	DAZed	nope
11-12 3:34:55	stonysmith	I don't think there are any roads thru that area
11-12 3:34:36	DAZed	there does appear to be a neat bridge on the other side of I-44 though. Jerome, MO might have to be a stop for sure.
11-12 3:34:32	GNFan	Yup. The Titanic was described as "practically unsinkable". Yet nature and human nature conspired to find a way.
11-12 3:33:42	DAZed	Stony, I would offer to try and photograph your bridge the next time I travel through there, but it doesn't look particularly accessible.
11-12 3:32:10	GNFan	(too light on the 'w' key)
11-12 3:32:10	DAZed	That concept of engineering hubris was well covered at the Titanic exhibit we went to a few months ago
11-12 3:31:59	GNFan	Narrows
11-12 3:31:38	DAZed	Mike, yes. Very true.
11-12 3:31:29	GNFan	I do what I can.
11-12 3:31:10	GNFan	Titanic/Tacoma Narros = examples of engineering hubris
11-12 3:30:49	DAZed	Mike, bringing it back to trains. Jim would be so proud.
11-12 3:29:51	GNFan	There's a railroad double mainline that runs along the Tacoma shore (to maintain the illusion of railroads as our subject).
11-12 3:28:52	stonysmith	I certainly don't remember it
11-12 3:28:07	DAZed	but nobody remembers the 1940s, well most people. Historians and model railroaders are all over it
11-12 3:26:39	DAZed	that is so cliche, so 1990's.
11-12 3:25:54	DAZed	meh, beats referring to it as the Titanic.
11-12 3:25:30	DAZed	gotcha
11-12 3:25:28	GNFan	An awkward metaphor!
11-12 3:25:12	GNFan	Seeing the film of the rolling bridge deck, it's obvious they thought to close the bridge. But that didn't mean a car or two wasn't left on the bridge at the time.
11-12 3:25:03	DAZed	(the company, and the bridge)
11-12 3:24:55	DAZed	it is really astounding how it has just gone so sideways so quickly.
11-12 3:23:35	DAZed	our company is functioning about like the 1940 Tacoma Narrows bridge at the moment
11-12 3:22:06	DAZed	yes, losing the dog is very sad. It is interesting the thing I was reading said the bridge was closed to traffic at the time it happened
11-12 3:21:33	stonysmith	still quite short
11-12 3:21:05	stonysmith	ah
11-12 3:20:47	DAZed	no, she was there maybe 6 weeks
11-12 3:20:24	stonysmith	you said that... what was it.. 3 days?
11-12 3:20:05	DAZed	I can't remember if I told you that our new IT director didn't make it very long
11-12 3:19:51	GNFan	The only casualties in 1940 was a car, and a family dog - the owner of both was crushed to lose the dog.
11-12 3:19:34	DAZed	Stony, that sounds really familiar
11-12 3:18:48	stonysmith	So I'll have new supervisor soon
11-12 3:18:36	stonysmith	Doug.. my company restructured some.. didn't let anyone go, but they asked my boss to move over and start managing more of the financials .. he countered with retirement
11-12 3:18:35	GNFan	Careful, Doug - the Narrows includes octopuses.
11-12 3:18:19	DAZed	and it wasn't very good at that either
11-12 3:17:39	DAZed	swimming
11-12 3:17:02	DAZed	Mike, I'm sure they said that about the 1940 version too, until it did go somewhere.
11-12 3:16:34	DAZed	indeed! That is a good opportunity.
11-12 3:15:54	GNFan	The new bridges are plenty sturdy, Doug - they ain't goin' nowhere!
11-12 3:15:15	GNFan	NMRA/NTS is in Tacoma in 2027, I believe. There's an opportunity, Doug.
11-12 3:15:14	DAZed
11-12 3:15:05	DAZed	I would pick a nice calm day
11-12 3:13:34	GNFan	The 1950 and the 2007 versions are side by side. The 1940 version was one lane each way. My late father drove on it once (must have been barely old enough to do so) - he said it was like driving on a roller coaster.
11-12 3:11:57	DAZed	the PNW is on my bucket list
11-12 3:11:30	GNFan	Oh. Not "that bridge", but "THAT bridge"!
11-12 3:11:21	DAZed	but I would love to go the the 1950 and/or 2007 version
11-12 3:10:46	DAZed	no sorry I meant the one Stony linked to
11-12 3:10:27	GNFan	The 1950 reworked version, must be, Doug.

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