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Slim Rail Mike

December 26, 2010 10:01PM

Registered: 14 years ago
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Why stick a name on a...siding...???

I too enjoyed the thread. Here is my take.

Because we are human, and as humans we name things. Place names in the pre-gps days were important locators, even if the place in and of itself was not important, you knew where you were. Railroads seemed to have names for every creek, cut, siding, big curve, grade, ect to define location.

I had studied GIS at one point, my take away (beyond all the tech) is that "Place is important".

Michael

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Muldoon on the RGS	jgp1843	December 23, 2010 08:10PM
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Re: Muldoon on the RGS	FordCVP71	December 24, 2010 11:55AM
Re: Muldoon on the RGS	Tower Operator	December 24, 2010 01:27PM
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Re: Clancy Muldoon? ...	Russo Loco	December 26, 2010 11:32AM
Re: Clancy Muldoon? ...	rehunn	December 26, 2010 01:43PM
Re: Clancy Muldoon? ...	Slim Rail Mike	December 26, 2010 10:01PM
Re: Clancy Muldoon? ...	jgp1843	December 26, 2010 11:25PM
Muldoon	hank	December 27, 2010 02:03PM
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