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Posted by Mike (WA) on December 18, 2003 at 08:15:43 from (209.213.155.92):
In Reply to: Re: Large crawlers, how do you move them?. posted by buickanddeere on December 16, 2003 at 17:46:08:
About 25 years ago, when they were trying to build two nuclear power plants near Satsop, Washington, they were going to build a railroad track across some prime farmland to haul in the reactors. One of the properties was owned by an elderly lady dairy farmer, who was also the foster mother to about 98 kids, and the darling of the community- she set about organizing folks to lay down in front of the bulldozers if they came, and ended up with over 1000 folks willing to do it. Everything kind of went on hold at that point, and the issue was never pressed as they had run out of money and the whole project was eventually scrapped.
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