Travel Bug Dog Tag Bill's Adventures

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Bill222E Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Origin:
Tennessee, United States
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This bug travels with me to show where I have been and the adventures I have had

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Bill222E is the travel bug!

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    Tracking History (38165.9mi) View Map

    Retrieve It from a Cache 2/26/2009 Bill222E retrieved it from El Cerrito Mexico   Visit Log

    This was my 6th trip to Central Mexico.
    Dropped Off 2/26/2009 Bill222E placed it in El Cerrito Mexico - 2,098.51 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 8/4/2008 Bill222E retrieved it from Cache of Cash 101 New York   Visit Log

    Sorry for leaving myself here so long. I didn't actually stay as long as it took to make this post. But at least I can "backdate" the log date.
    Dropped Off 8/4/2008 Bill222E placed it in Cache of Cash 101 New York - 156.16 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 8/4/2008 Bill222E retrieved it from No Reeboks here, just a pair of Nikes Pennsylvania   Visit Log

    I'm back in Richboro at my parents house for a week. But a trip to Montauk on the tip end of long Island is in order.
    Dropped Off 8/4/2008 Bill222E placed it in No Reeboks here, just a pair of Nikes Pennsylvania - 276.83 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 8/2/2008 Bill222E retrieved it from Tank of Ice 101 (Sports Cache) Vermont   Visit Log

    First cache in Vermont!
    Dropped Off 8/2/2008 Bill222E placed it in Tank of Ice 101 (Sports Cache) Vermont - 203.6 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 2/26/2008 Bill222E retrieved it from El Cerrito Mexico   Visit Log

    Fixing a log entry
    Write note 9/17/2007 Bill222E posted a note for it   Visit Log

    Today, I witnessed a train hitting a truck! After hearing a train horn and then an unusual sounding horn, I went to the front door and saw it happen. BAM! Too bad I didn't get a video. But I do have pictures of the aftermath.

    • The Backhoe This backhoe was on the flatbed trailer being pulled by the truck. The truck was here first, then the gates came down, as can seen by the fact that the gate is resting on top of the backhoe.
    • The Tractor This was pulling the flatbed trailer that the backhoe was on. It ended up about 100 or so feet south of the crossing!
    • Backhoe on the Street This shows where the backhoe ended up. The flatbed trailer swung out from underneath the backhoe like pulling a table cloth out from underneath a set of dinner plates resting on a table. The backhoe went straight down to the street.
    • Damage to the Tractor All things considered, this tractor faired pretty well. Let's see, just 3 flat tires, a bent smoke stack, a mangled tire mud guard, the mirror and whatever that thing underneath it is mangled, and probably that dent in the fuel tank. A few scrapes and "bruises" round out the visible damage. They were able to get it started, though it sputtered and coughed, and something was leaking.
    • Fixing the Track Here's "John Henry" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore) fixing the track. In our high tech world where machines fix track by the mile, sometimes hand tools are the simplest way to get things done. Just before hammering the spike, he used an ordinary metal measuring tape to measure the gauge of the track, then tapped it into alignment with a backhoe (not the one on the truck that was hit though).
    • The Engine that Hit Damage is hardly visible to the engine that struck the truck. However, the front steps on the far side of the engine were bent quite substantially. Still, FRA regulations require engines involved in an incident like this to be inspected before they can be used again. So this engine was parked on a side track about a half mile to the north, where it remained for about 3 weeks before it was moved again. The backhoe here is the one used to realign the track.
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