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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 11-06-2004 11:19 PM                    Just so. Interstates must run horizontally. It's an immutable law of the universe. Vertical just doesn't work. This tower is about 25 miles straight south of downtown Chicago. It was part of a chain of microwave relay towers stretching all the way to New York City, spaced about every 25-30 miles (line of sight). This was the original microwave link set up by AT&T Long Lines in the late 1940's and was how live network television was first carried cross country. Eventually microwave relay stations spanned the country carrying TV and thousands of phone calls simultaneously. Originally there was a pair of microwave antenna horns atop it facing north and another pair facing east. I think they could have saved some miles by going southeast from Chicago cutting across Lake Michigan but perhaps there were issues with microwave propagation over water. I believe the reason for erecting towers such as this rather than the later type of steel laticework tower was that the early microwave equipment needed to be close to the antenna instead of on the ground at the end of a long waveguide (pipe) but was also too large (and probably in need of frequent maintenance) to install right at the dish. So a tower like this could have rooms inside it that were close enough. Other towers in the chain looked similar. The old antennas came down long ago and there were some round ones for a time. Now I think the tower is relegated to being a convenient place to put a cellular relay. I don't know if AT&T still owns it.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-07-2004 12:41 PM                     I live one mile to the west of I-44. It's numbered like an East-West route. However, this Interstate is very much a north-south style route from its terminus in Wichita Falls, TX up to Oklahoma City. It is pretty weird to get on northbound I-44 with it signed "east". I should note this segment was not originally part of I-44 and was designated as such in 1983. The original route, running from OKC up to St. Louis is one of those wierd diagonal routes. There is a very slim chance of an opportunity developing to rename this Interstate to "I-33". The I-35 corridor in Texas is way over capacity. TxDOT is building the TX-130 tollway to run sort of parallel to I-35. But then there is work to improve US-281. It will eventually be at least four laned from San Antonio to Wichita Falls. But some in Texas want it to be a completely limited access Interstate style route. Not just for the development happening in the area, but also for military transport purposes as well (one of the original purposes for the road system). Fort Hood in Kileen, Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls and Fort Sill here in Lawton would stand to benefit. Anyway, such a concept would work for an "I-33" route from San Antonio to Oklahoma City, providing a western "relief route" for long distance I-35 traffic. As I said, there is only a very slim chance of that ever happening. There's a better chance for US-287 to be converted into "I-32" from Amarillo to Fort Worth, or I-44 extended farther south as a NAFTA route to Del Rio, TX.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 11-07-2004 01:44 PM                       That's like the Cross-Bronx Expressway in NY. It's actually I-95 N/S, but in the city from whence it came, they still refer to it in E/W terms. Confusing for truckers who ain't used to it, thinking they're going S, but hear a traffic report saying W. "Whaa?!"  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-07-2004 02:10 PM                     Tim, that whole area of I-95 can be very confusing for anyone not familiar with the area. In fact, I would say it may be the most confusing maze of superhighway in the country. In the space of about 7 miles, you have the terminus of the NJ Turnpike, the I-80 terminus with dual local lanes and dual HOV lanes, the US 9 / Pallisades Parkway interchange (with separate 9 and 9W exits, exits for US 1 and US 46), the George Washington Bridge, The Henry Hudson Parkway (NY 9A) at the end of the bridge and exits for Harlem River Drive and I-87 on either side of the Harlem River. You get to breate a little and then go into the mess of Interchanges on the eastern end of the Bronx: I-895, Bronx River Pkwy and that clusterf**k of I-278, I-678 and I-295 happening at once. A little I-695 thingie is thrown in for good measure. Also, those roads are not wide, expansive style freeways like you find in parts Texas or California. They're crammed into some tight spaces with tight, slow speed, corkscrewing exits just coming up out of nowhere. You miss one turn in this bunch and you'll have to drive at least a couple miles to find a good turning around point.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-07-2004 05:10 PM                      |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 11-07-2004 05:26 PM                    Buckingham Fountain, in Chicago's lakefront Grant Park. Not a gift from the Queen, as some seem to think. The red building (with Sears Tower far off to its left) is the CNA Building. Five years ago a window cracked and a shard of glass struck and killed a woman on the ground. All the windows have been or are being replaced. But heads up anyway.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-07-2004 06:37 PM                     Interestingly Buckingham Fountain is remotely controled by a firm in St. Louis. Donno why... I guess they just got the contract... Mark  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-07-2004 07:06 PM                        Downtown Denver, near where I do video editing and DVD authoring.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-07-2004 07:11 PM                     Look out, Joe! There's some really big dude taking a picture of you taking a picture of those buildings!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-07-2004 07:12 PM                        That's just God. He wanted to get my mug shot to show everyone else what NOT to be like.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-07-2004 07:16 PM                     "John needs to read the FAQ in order to get the pictures to display for him." John read, and truth be told, John doesn't understand all the fine points of the computer world. John does understand that he does not want to screw around with his firewall, so John will have to forgo viewing all the pretty pictures in the Upload your random pictures post.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 11-08-2004 09:18 PM                    Mark, I dont think that's true anymore. It used to be controlled by a computer in Atlanta but it's probably local by now.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-09-2004 09:25 PM                  ...and behind this door, your NEW home theatre... BTW: The hell with the kids! I voted NO on RCS! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-09-2004 11:21 PM                     Iowa State Capitol  |  IP: Logged James Faber Film Handler Posts: 66 From: Des Moines, Iowa , USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 11-10-2004 12:38 AM                        I live in Des Moines, and I've always wondered if our state capital is special, or if all state capitals look like that.  |  IP: Logged

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