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Brown Hawk Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 11 minutes ago, Eric said: Never, ever let the little stuff distract you! Hawk 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 During WWII many older railroad employees returned from retirement to replace the young men who had gone into the military. On the wartime “RIP” tracks (“Repair In Place”), this Illinois Central retiree jacked up a gondola to swap out a truck during November, 1942. He did it all by himself. Forgotten men like this made America great. (Photo by Jack Delano) 4 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 On 12/10/2018 at 8:32 PM, Eric said: I heard that at first the dogs were an added burden, then the handlers found that they could get some sleep with the dogs around them. Suddenly the dogs acquired many believers and their popularity grew. Man and Dog were a special team. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 16 minutes ago, pipedreams said: During WWII many older railroad employees returned from retirement to replace the young men who had gone into the military. On the wartime “RIP” tracks (“Repair In Place”), this Illinois Central retiree jacked up a gondola to swap out a truck during November, 1942. He did it all by himself. Forgotten men like this made America great. (Photo by Jack Delano) Work wasn't a "four letter word" when men did it! 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 13 minutes ago, Eric said: There is a classic example of "The good old days". 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bish1309 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 15 hours ago, Eric said: Maybe wishing for more than I'd bargain for but I would like to be able to experience that era for just a day. I'd like to see the world before we made it colorized. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_Hallbert Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Maybe wishing for more than I'd bargain for but I would like to be able to experience that era for just a day. I'd like to see the world before we made it colorized.Don’t despair.....I predict that in only a few years the Democrats will bring these days back. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bish1309 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 3 minutes ago, C_Hallbert said: Don’t despair.....I predict that in only a few years the Democrats will bring these days back. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Sadly, you are more right than both of us would care to relate to. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 HMS Exeter was one of three Allied warships that sank the powerful German battleship Graf Spee at the Battle of the River Plate 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestor Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 On 12/12/2018 at 3:21 PM, pipedreams said: During WWII many older railroad employees returned from retirement to replace the young men who had gone into the military. On the wartime “RIP” tracks (“Repair In Place”), this Illinois Central retiree jacked up a gondola to swap out a truck during November, 1942. He did it all by himself. Forgotten men like this made America great. (Photo by Jack Delano) Wow! I'm speechless. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 "Life Before AutoCAD" https://archinect.com/news/article/150078470/vintage-photos-remind-of-the-profession-before-autocad 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 1 minute ago, Brad said: "Life Before AutoCAD" https://archinect.com/news/article/150078470/vintage-photos-remind-of-the-profession-before-autocad I gave my artist daughter and my engineer son, each one of those fancy top of the line drafting tables with the X/Y drafting machine included when my company went to computerized design. The company gave them away. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) 25 minutes ago, janice6 said: I gave my artist daughter and my engineer son, each one of those fancy top of the line drafting tables with the X/Y drafting machine included when my company went to computerized design. The company gave them away. I bet they did. By the time I graduated in the mid-90s, all of the drafting was done on AutoCAD and Microstation. Engineering lagged a little, and I didn't have a computer for the first two years I designed, so I had a table fairly similar to the ones shown in the picture. I had three of them arranged into a U-shape. Bookshelves below and above the table. It was more efficient than any space I've had since. I put in my notice at the university today and am planning to grow my consulting business into an engineering firm. Now that I can do whatever I want, I'm planning to set up something like that U-shaped cockpit, except with room for a computer, obviously. As an aside, I am pretty sure more work got done when most employees didn't have a computer or a telephone. I remember when everybody got phones with direct lines. After that, wives didn't have to go through the receptionist to call their husbands, and it was like a flood-gate opened. With FB, etc., it obviously got much worse. Now people waste multiple hours each day. I wish I could pull off not allowing FB, cell phones, etc. when I start hiring people, but that's probably fantasy. Edited December 18, 2018 by Brad 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 1 minute ago, Brad said: I bet they did. By the time I started graduated in the mid-90s, all of the drafting was done on AutoCAD and Microstation. I didn't have a computer for the first two years I designed, so I had a table fairly similar to the ones shown in the picture. I had three of them arrange into a U-shape. Bookshelves below and above the table. It was more efficient than any space I've had since. I put in my notice at the university today and am planning to grow my consulting business into an engineering firm. Now that I can do whatever I want, I'm planning to set up something like that U-shaped cockpit, except with room for a computer, obviously. As an aside, I am pretty sure more work got done when most employees didn't have a computer or a telephone. I remember when everybody got phones. After that, wives didn't have to go through the receptionist to call their husbands, and it was like a flood-gate opened. With FB, etc., it obviously got much worse. Now people waste multiple hours each day. I wish I could pull off not allowing FB, cell phones, etc. wen I start hiring people, but that's probably fantasy. The plant I worked in for our corporation, had 5,000 employees in it. They were Military Production Engineering, Physics Research and support contracts groups. One day I walked through the production engineering department to handle some paperwork, it had roughly 300 engineers in it. Damn near every office I passed by, the occupant was playing Microsoft games on the computer. This was not during lunch time either. I am not a fanatic nor a workaholic, but I do believe that if I'm being paid for my time it should be spent on what the company wants me to do. No one seemed to care. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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