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He doesn't have a chance in Chicago Heights to catch you.....I meant hell....
"Nothing changes if nothing changes." - Anonymous
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MY WIFE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN THE HEIGHTS!!! And people say she looks like Parker Posey.  |
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If that is the case, god bless you......My wife grew up in Berwyn, and they say she looks like Eva Longoria......(I am not posting a picture, because well, I am tired and just don't feel like searching the internet) Have you been to The Heights lately?
"Nothing changes if nothing changes." - Anonymous
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The Heights is Mecca for the used railroad industry. Little known fact I thought you all should know. Also most bed rails and garage door rails are made in the Heights from used rr rail. See I know stuff... And you all thought I was just a pretty face
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quote: Have you been to The Heights lately?
Not on your life. Many a visit to the old homestead has yielded tears of sorrow over what has happened to that town. |
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I grew up in the railroad industry, my dad managed mobile repair facilities and manufacturing plants where they made railroad car trucks(wheels) and reconditioned them as well over in the heights...... I spent many a weekend over in the shops riding in the locomotives that were getting repaired and moving wheels around the shops.....
"Nothing changes if nothing changes." - Anonymous
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quote: Originally posted by IMJ:
I grew up in the railroad industry, my dad managed mobile repair facilities and manufacturing plants where they made railroad car trucks(wheels) and reconditioned them as well over in the heights......
I spent many a weekend over in the shops riding in the locomotives that were getting repaired and moving wheels around the shops.....
Did he work for Griffin? I did the same with my Uncle down in Carbondale. Funny thing is I was more excited the first time I got to drive operate a locomotive as an adult.
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He didn't, but he did alot of business with those people.....Some of the guys that would leave his place, would go to griffin. He actually worked for North American Railcar Corp(Flying Tiger before NARC), until they got bought by GE. Then he worked for GE Rail until he retired after 40 years in the Rail Industry..
"Nothing changes if nothing changes." - Anonymous
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Riding in a locomotive is both scary and unreal.....I don't know how those guys stay in those things and ride the rails across the country.... I love hijacking fan's threads......
"Nothing changes if nothing changes." - Anonymous
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I don't know... It is cool. I did at the Ford/Rouge Steel plant in Dearborn, MI and the Lake State RR in East Tawas, MI. Yea hijacking Fan threads is great! He hyjacked my hijacking thread
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Fan is a horrible person.
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My husband lived in Heights from birth until third grade (then moved to GE). His Dad worked for Amaco in Whiting but then moved to the Naperville research center...and guess what he, as a chemist, worked on? Locomotive lubricants! Wierd how connected so many people are to locomotives and Chicago Heights....
"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. " -Bertrand Russell V. Delong
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| Posts: 3239 | Location: Glen Ellyn, IL | Registered: April 04, 2003 |  |
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I'm an engineer, I live in the Chicago area and I'm afraid of heights, does that count?
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quote: Originally posted by Dan the Man:
I'm an engineer, I live in the Chicago area and I'm afraid of heights, does that count?
Very clever Dan!!!!
I am fairly certain that given a cape and a nice tiara, I could save the world.
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| Posts: 692 | Location: Glen Ellyn | Registered: July 15, 2005 | |
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I had a lot of friends that went to Marian Catholic. I graduated from Rich South in '88. Did you know either of the Cavanaugh's?
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Parker graduated from Marian.
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