Turned up on my Facebook. East European thing, but maybe worth duplicating in the US, perhaps as some sort of job training program, especially if some of these railway mass transit programs take off…(like maybe the boondoggle in Hawaii)
Tim said:
…especially if some of these railway mass transit programs take off…(like maybe the boondoggle in Hawaii)…
You have no idea…I moved here in '97, and they were talking about it. That was about 20-25 years after the OR&L shut its last miles of track and the Navy stopped running the ammo trains. They spent the next 20 years studying where to put the new train, and, sure as you’re born, in places it is about 50 feet from where the OR&L mainline used to be. Ummmm…It’s an island. Geography didn’t change, though, admittedly, in some areas building density did. When they decided to got to Shanghai to “study” maglev, someone finally threw the flag. At least we didn’t get saddled with that white elephant. I vowed to have the Triple O up and running before the 1:1 trains ran. I won by a still growing margin of years.
If I had the money of a tech tycoon, I’d let others take on mundane travels like space travel. I’d bankroll the Hawaiian Railway Society then resurrect the OR&L. That would be a real challenge!
More to the point of this video, the Hawaiian Railway Society has a pretty good volunteer program that’ll step you along the way to engineer.
I could have sworn a stretch of the Hawaiian boondoggle was slated to open this year…
As a child I was confused by the word boondoggle and how it was used -from my parents’ wide vocabulary I knew that when a thing was a boon it was a good and helpful thing; and, doggle was obviously a cute way of saying dog; therefore given the way the English language works a boondoggle was obviously a cute and helpful dog.
Umm …
No …
I lost the war the very second I applied logic to the English language …
Tim said:
I could have sworn a stretch of the Hawaiian boondoggle was slated to open this year…
Nope. An issue with the tracks and wheelsets. Life mimics garden railroading, it seems.
I had to Google what a “Boondoggle” was as I never heard of the term after reading a description found it was the same as what is known in Australia as a WOFTAM.
Waste Of Flamin’ Time And Money.