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Coal-export plans turn into a running battle

Posted Mon, Oct 10, 5:47 p.m.

Regarding capacity of rail lines to handle enormous increase in trains trips per day read report by Sightline.org. Such increases appear to be incredibly disruptive of other frieght traffic, if not impossible. Youngstown

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Blogging about your bungled bungalow

Posted Fri, Jan 22, 7:38 a.m.

The Furaya Building restoration is an accomplishment of modern technology to replicate old materials. The "stonework" of the new upper floors is in fact light-weight, thin shelled material attached to a new steel frame. The enormous cornice is not sheetmetal and wood and masonry as the original. It is fiber ...

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Blogging about your bungled bungalow

Posted Fri, Jan 22, 7:31 a.m.

Sucher is right, in my opinion, it wasn't a bungalow. But more importantly the make-over does do one thing right: an addition to an historic building should almost always be apparent. This job did that with different materials and symmetrical facade over an assymmetrical existing and homely facade. In an ...

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