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Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the model T Ford. Don't have to tell everyone that the automobile and Henry Ford has had a big influence on this country and the way it runs today. Looking at a few facts about the model T made me wonder how far we have come. One was that the T got 13 to 21...

Thought some might be interested in this link, it's about the natural gas pipeline being ran from Wyoming to Ohio, they are running the pipeline just south of Decatur, IL right at this time and are suppose to finish by December 2008. I don't know about that though their pretty mudded out from...

New bridge in Minneapolis opened Thursday 3 months ahead of schedule, that is awesome, hats off to contractor that did the job and to folks in Minnesota. It looks like a state of the art bridge with sensors built into concrete for monitoring. I'm sure a lot of you drove over the old one. Now...

This a link to site about scuba diving Florida I thought some on here might be interested in. I did this dive with cousin earlier this year, he called to tell me he went back down recently and put " Vote McCain for President Sign " aboard. This is the CVA-34 USS Oriskany scuttled in 06 by US...

There is an island off Florida panhandle called St. George island, neat place to visit. During world war II the military practiced beach landings here, day and night. Reading some history of the area it was told that at that time the island was infested with large eastern diamondback...

An old salt van operator that use to post on here that has run vans for decades told me this is not a part of outfitting a van that you want to go half azz. You will encounter some real winners on fork lifts out there. I bolted my plywood down with carriage bolts and as hard as the forklift...

Hello Streaken1, just read your post about Florida and had to respond to ask what part of Florida your from. Fairly certain that I have saw you folks a number of times in your tractor driving in the St. Marks area. You may have saw me sitting on a picnic table below the bridge over the Wakula...

You have to laugh at the on scene news reporters reporting at the beach before a storm with all their foul weather gear on and acting like it's all they can do to keep from being blowed away while in the background people are walking their dogs and looking for shells at waters edge. Personally...

Been to Memphis many times, use to sing the song " walking in Memphis " to myself only use " sitting in Memphis " as word replacement. I personally like Memphis but have a story to tell also, walked into bathroom at Amoco and grabbed doorknob, yuk it was wet, after going on in realized my hand...

I can't believe the "Oasis" here in Decatur, IL on route #48 just off I-72 hasn't been mentioned here before. They finally built a new Pilot accross the road, don't know if the "Oasis" is still open or not. Last company I worked for maintaining and building c-stores and truckstops had the...