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Pneumatic Tubes: Bringing Them Back

The Postal Service first used pneumatic tubes between New York and Brooklyn in 1897; the system expanded to connect individual post offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Similar systems were used in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago in the United States, and in Europe, Prague, London, Paris, and Russia. [photopress:Pneumatic_Tube_Canister___National_Postal_Museum_.jpg,thumb,alignright] At its peak, New York’s pneumatic [...]

Cryptome/Eyeball Series on Buckeye pipelines

[Originally posted at  Popular Logistics] Anyone interested in the issues discussed at  is likely to find Cryptome.org an – and its affiliated sites – invaluable resources. One of – The Eyeball Series – treats “Eyeball” as a verb rather than as a noun – and provides visual information – some declassified, some acquired as open-sour [...]

Pat McCaffrey, Construction worker, killed working on natural gas pipeline in Harriman State Park

Last Sunday’s Times, Metro section,  Sunday September 16, 2007, page 21, column 1, headlined: “Pipeline Accident Kills Worker.”  No dateline, no byline. Not showing up in the Times’ archive search on its website. From that piece, which reports that Mr. McCaffrey was killed on Saturday: The worker, identified as Pat McCaffrey, 67, of Lebanon, N.J. [...]


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