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There's a pix floating around where they were bored back in the 1800s, so they took a couple of steam locomotives and a few cars, starting them a couple miles apart, throttles locked. When they hit, it formed an arch, and people were all around and under it.

If you tried that today, they'd have 15 fire trux, the EPA, and OSHA blocking off anything closer than a half mile.
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That's so true! ... I think I can remember that photo (or at least one similar)

I currently work at an underground mine and we have soooo many daily safety talks and safety procedures that there is hardly enough time remaining in the day to mine nickel! (however, obviously it is a very good thing, because in the "old-days" the miners were asked to do some pretty crazy and dangerous tasks ... and apparently they didn't always survive to brag about it)
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