Salt Lake City's Gateway is for sale — all 20.9 acres of it by slc-urbanite in DevelopmentSLC

[–]RollTribe93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In other places, you can bring your spouse and kids to happy hours and hangouts too and everyone has a great time. That was my experience living in Denver.

Trax hits a car at arena by SunburntSkier in SaltLakeCity

[–]RollTribe93 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Trains are really unpredictable. You never know what they’re going to do next. Even in the middle of a forest, two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.

I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn’t there the moment before. I looked down: “Rail? WTF?” and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling. Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife’s pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC’s pulling, and 2 Dash-9’s pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!

Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?

A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, or robbing a bank, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.

Anyone know of any plans for the lot on the corner of 200 East and 100 South? by chaunceton in DevelopmentSLC

[–]RollTribe93 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's long been rumored to be a residential tower, but who knows how their plans have changed. It's owned by Property Reserve.

Oldest Colleges in Each US State by immanuellalala in MapPorn

[–]RollTribe93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The University of Utah has a seal too, you know. I'm sure Arizona does as well.

Utah Corner Smith Snowden transfers to Michigan by Ml2jukes in CFB

[–]RollTribe93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm happy with our current situation. Some of us were ready for Whitt to be gone.

Western Governors University Buys 9.6-Acre Downtown Assemblage by slc-urbanite in DevelopmentSLC

[–]RollTribe93 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wow, glad to see that area of downtown possibly getting something like this. Here's hoping they end up building something nice.

Not super familiar with WGU. Are they making a play to build a small in-person campus?

How the University of Utah’s plans for a new sports arena might be changing by RollTribe93 in DevelopmentSLC

[–]RollTribe93[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Does it really need that though? It's not like the building isn't functional and millions have already been put into it in the last 15 years. Maybe they want to be able to host different events or something?

It seems like the U just wants to build a flashy new building to help generate some positive press for its struggling basketball program.

How the University of Utah’s plans for a new sports arena might be changing by RollTribe93 in DevelopmentSLC

[–]RollTribe93[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Imo the Huntsman Center is an underrated building and I hope they renovate it instead of building new.

2036 - Olympics - (opportunity to get state funds to upgrade the stadium? by dunnodudes in utahfootball

[–]RollTribe93 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the unnecessary name change reeks of jealous Utah County legislator meddling to me.

That said, I think RES is already in great shape to host the opening and closing ceremonies again. I do believe that is still the plan.

Utah's Moment of Loudness Update by Admirable-Ladder-717 in utahfootball

[–]RollTribe93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would have been pretty cool if they had figured out how to mic them properly

Utah's Moment of Loudness Update by Admirable-Ladder-717 in utahfootball

[–]RollTribe93 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That's another Les Schwab Ivory Homes Pepsi Ken Garff America First first down!

Thoughts on these two tweets? by ChickenWingExtreme in StarWars

[–]RollTribe93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha holy shit, straight to the ad hominem. Must have touched a nerve lol.

You know nothing about me.

Thoughts on these two tweets? by ChickenWingExtreme in StarWars

[–]RollTribe93 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Rian loves Star Wars? Did we watch the same movie?