steelwheels
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Windy in GA, 21 gusting to 28, Wind Mill getting a good workout. As mentioned the other day, expected the new machine. It arrived on time, spent Saturday uncrating, lifting, placing it in it's new home.
greg
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DAVID The wife and I stayed at the hotel in El Portal twice and if I remember right, one can still see the original lines right of way along the river. I see a motorcycle trip up the Merced river canyon this summer now that my interest has been spurred. Here is a picture I scanned from my book of the 78% incline you mentioned.Truckdad: Apologies for the late reply. EL Portal, is at the extreme East End of the Merced River canyon which is the location of the two logging inclines.
The information comes from, The Timberman.
The incline on the South face of the canyon is very steep for most of it assent to the top. While it does have some milder grades of about 20% near the bottom but the majority of it's 6,340 ft length was a grade of about 78% ! Want to hitch a ride? That's the way the loggers could go up to work or down to get to try town. I've read that the ride on the loaded log cars, channel frame type was so nerve wracking many new men only lasted a day or two before they quit. I've also seen pictures where cars would derail and wind up on their side or almost upside down.
The Timberman is a very detailed and interesting reading.
Hurry up and wait. By the time they get this project done. you'll need air conditioning and then that will probably crap out with your luck.
I added a comment and vote, I hope everybody else will do the same--even if it's only to say they don't know. At least we'll know people are aware of the issue.The time has come for some major changes. I'm going to have to admit that I can't keep running Vbulletin 4 forever. It's just too much of a target for hackers. It's unclear how much of the threat is real and how much of it is a false positive, but it really doesn't matter. If the anti-virus programs are scaring people away, the site can't continue to grow and get traffic, whether or not there's any actual risk.
I'll be exploring my options and migrating to a new platform in the near future.
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