Your picture is actually of active, well-used railroad tracks. Old unused tracks are rusty and weed-grown. If the rails are shiny it means that trains pass regularly and knock the rust off. If there’s no weeds it’s because the railroad actively sends out crews to maintain the tracks.
I live in a small town next to a giant pile of gravel lol It’s probably not free. In my case, the owner of the property was planning on putting in a gravel driveway to a old house he was going to fix up but then never did. It’s been abandoned for years, no idea what’s going on now. But he owns the gravel and taking it would be theft. Although I could probably get away with it if I was in a desperate gravel situation.
In the Great Depression, when people would leave their farms, it was common for their neighbors to strip their house to the foundations. However, if that person came back, it was also common for those neighbors to give most of what they took back, and even help rebuild. I think there’s an argument to be made that stealing something that isn’t being used isn’t stealing in a traditional sense, but more ensuring appropriate usage of resources and lessening waste.
This gave me big flashbacks of where I grew up. It was great as a kid, a ton of urban exploration opportunities, but I wouldn’t want to live there now.
My area in New York is like that. It’s like “You will enjoy our scenic views, for as long as humanly possible. I don’t know why you think this state highway that is the only route through our shitty backwater town would ever be otherwise…”
Got pulled in one of these driving through a small town on a US highway. 55mph road until you hit the town and it’s 35mph. I missed that sign and got pulled for a warning. -_-
I lived in one of these town for four years. Just before I moved there, they’d made national news for pulling over an ambulance. It was hauling ass taking someone to the hospital, but the local cops felt that issuing a ticket was more important.
The town is also the county seat and regional state patrol center. It’s the highest ratio of law enforcement to citizens in the entire state.
The first day we arrived my wife was pulled over for doing just over 25. Welcome to town!
They still have to follow the rules of the road. In my state legally even running code 3 (lights and sirens) they are only legally allowed to go 5mph over the limit. And if there is an accident the ambulance driver is basically automatically assumed at fault.
There really isn’t. Most of the laws regarding that is “driving with a due regard to safety.” You can’t just blow through intersections willy-nilly. A lot of progress has been made with driving code 3. A lot of studies have shown it honestly doesn’t improve patient outcomes based on the limited time gained. There are exceptions of course.
One time, I was driving through one of these old towns, and I got pulled over because I didn’t make a complete stop at a stop sign. Admittedly, I was in the wrong, but the judge in town was insane, and coincidentally the father of the sheriff who pulled us over. So the judge tried to have me and the people in the car executed in some crazy deathcoaster contraption unless I agreed to marry his daughter (who bore a striking resemblance to Gus Polinski) but thankfully we managed to get out of there. Also, we got to party with Digital Underground for some reason.
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Old unused train tracks are one of my favourite things on vacation. It really is a journey into the past. So peaceful.
Is first pic near the peak district? I may have been there, unless there’s more than one bridge like that
Coming from Idaho falls, can confirm these are all present.
Your picture is actually of active, well-used railroad tracks. Old unused tracks are rusty and weed-grown. If the rails are shiny it means that trains pass regularly and knock the rust off. If there’s no weeds it’s because the railroad actively sends out crews to maintain the tracks.
I was just in Japan and even some of their active rail lines have huge 4 ft tall weeds growing in the rail yards
Weed control is a fairly new thing but not an environmentally friendly thing. Maybe Japan doesn’t like spraying pesticide all around.
Wouldn’t surprise me. In Germany the largest customer for Roundup/Glyphosate is DB, they spray that shit over around all rails.
Damn, the railroad spawns its own crews for maintenance? That’s crazy
So THAT’S what looked off… And reminded me of where I moved out of…
The pile of gravel got me
Star Spangle intensifies
So, is that gravel…just free? Like, can anyone just take it?
Is this a free pennies joke from some movie? Sounds so familiar 🤔
I was heavily misquoting a scene from Ted 2 from memory 🙃
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Depends on who sees you
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100% correct! (Not that I’ve ever taken something just laying there that wasn’t mine.)
I live in a small town next to a giant pile of gravel lol It’s probably not free. In my case, the owner of the property was planning on putting in a gravel driveway to a old house he was going to fix up but then never did. It’s been abandoned for years, no idea what’s going on now. But he owns the gravel and taking it would be theft. Although I could probably get away with it if I was in a desperate gravel situation.
In the Great Depression, when people would leave their farms, it was common for their neighbors to strip their house to the foundations. However, if that person came back, it was also common for those neighbors to give most of what they took back, and even help rebuild. I think there’s an argument to be made that stealing something that isn’t being used isn’t stealing in a traditional sense, but more ensuring appropriate usage of resources and lessening waste.
Well, if it’s a desperate gravel situation that’s fair. I think we can all relate to that.
I feel like living in such a town would be very depressing.
You don’t know any different until you move out.
Except the internet has changed that to some degree (but definitely not entirely)
you’re assuming the town has internet fast enough to load more than a few pictures of the outside world per decade
Can confirm. Most of my state is like this.
Depends on the specific town. Some still have some life left, others are dead.
This gave me big flashbacks of where I grew up. It was great as a kid, a ton of urban exploration opportunities, but I wouldn’t want to live there now.
love driving thru these and seeing the old signs. hate the fuckin 25mph speed traps
My area in New York is like that. It’s like “You will enjoy our scenic views, for as long as humanly possible. I don’t know why you think this state highway that is the only route through our shitty backwater town would ever be otherwise…”
And these towns tend to have like 2.75 cops per person and they aren’t afraid to pull you over for going 26mph.
Got pulled in one of these driving through a small town on a US highway. 55mph road until you hit the town and it’s 35mph. I missed that sign and got pulled for a warning. -_-
I lived in one of these town for four years. Just before I moved there, they’d made national news for pulling over an ambulance. It was hauling ass taking someone to the hospital, but the local cops felt that issuing a ticket was more important.
The town is also the county seat and regional state patrol center. It’s the highest ratio of law enforcement to citizens in the entire state.
The first day we arrived my wife was pulled over for doing just over 25. Welcome to town!
What traffic laws can ambulances even violate!?
They still have to follow the rules of the road. In my state legally even running code 3 (lights and sirens) they are only legally allowed to go 5mph over the limit. And if there is an accident the ambulance driver is basically automatically assumed at fault.
Ah, I sorta just assume they had some kind of wide spread exemption in a lot of situations.
There really isn’t. Most of the laws regarding that is “driving with a due regard to safety.” You can’t just blow through intersections willy-nilly. A lot of progress has been made with driving code 3. A lot of studies have shown it honestly doesn’t improve patient outcomes based on the limited time gained. There are exceptions of course.
One time, I was driving through one of these old towns, and I got pulled over because I didn’t make a complete stop at a stop sign. Admittedly, I was in the wrong, but the judge in town was insane, and coincidentally the father of the sheriff who pulled us over. So the judge tried to have me and the people in the car executed in some crazy deathcoaster contraption unless I agreed to marry his daughter (who bore a striking resemblance to Gus Polinski) but thankfully we managed to get out of there. Also, we got to party with Digital Underground for some reason.
Nothing but trouble in that town it sounds like. Best stay away.
Did the judge have a dick nose? Sounds like something that happened to me once.
Tupac was involved with this, right?
Yep, his first acting credit.
Did they make you repave the street too with Bessy?
Don’t forget the Pepsi machine doesn’t actually work half the time if ever.
Did you just shit on pretty much the whole UK?
Yea imagine buildings being made of bricks and not match sticks
Nope, the American midwest. Most of my state is like this.
Would you classify your castles as “every building is bricks” or “random pile of gravel”?
I’m not British, but the vast majority of their buildings indeed seem to fall into either the “bricks” or the “gravel” category - not just castles.
All our houses are brick based. Source: own house in UK, made of bricks.
But don’t understand why it’s portrayed as bad here?
Its not, its just a common thing.
I think they might mean bricked up, as in the windows have been bricked over?
Or maybe they’re associated with buildings built during a certain period that are now mostly empty due to a boom and bust cycle?
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Fellow midwesterner can confirm
Replace the Pepsi Machine with one that sells Worms and you’ve nailed my area.
Is that where Rubrix Raptors swamp boys get the worms?
Chadbourn, NC is like this. My buddy drove over the train tracks too fast and it messed up his A/C for a while.
In Australia its the same, but only the fancy buildings are brick. Most are asbestos.
My dads town is not rich enough to have a vending machine.
Only in America
Could really be Canada too :/
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