No such thing as a small mistake in Engineering.................

[Builder Bob]

A picture is worth 10,000 words.

This is the original "Chinese proverb" from the streetcar advertisement.

The quotation has wrongly been translated as: A Picture Is Worth One Thousand Words.

In fact, the literal translation is: A Picture's Meaning Can Express Ten Thousand Words.

 

[cda]

HAYYYYYYYYYYY, be nice it is Engineer's week!!!!!!

take an engineer to lunch

 

[ICE]

I'm surprised that the engineers didn't get their week down to four days.

 

[mn joe]

Cute picture, but I question if it is real and untouched. What is the source?

 

[Mark K]

The picture cant be real. The Contractors would have had too much fun pointing out the engineers mistake earlier.

 

[SCBO1]

I'd take an engineer to lunch if he'd stop that train!

pc1

 

[mark handler]

The picture cant be real. The Contractors would have had too much fun pointing out the engineers mistake earlier.

That photo and many others have been around to twenty plus years

 

[fatboy]

But they are still fun to see!

Fun factoid, watched a documentary on the St. Louis Gateway Arch a few years back. If memory serves correctly, when it came time to drop the last segment in, they had to wet down the side facing the sun, due to the expansion/contraction effects of the sun on the metal, causing the two towers to not align perfectly.

 

[mark handler]

 

[Builder Bob]

 

[fatboy]

I'd almost believe that one BB...........

 

[Paul Sweet]

Reminds me of an old cartoon in Mad magazine, Driving the Golden Spike, where the tracks are offset.

 

[Frank]

minnesota bridge collapse - Bing Images

Nothing helps your image like a school bus sitting on the collapsed bridge because the truss plates were speced too thin

 

[cda]

Keyser ladder truck falls through bridge enroute to arson fire - News - Mineral Daily News-Tribune - Keyser, WV

 

[Builder Bob]

Reminds me of an old cartoon in Mad magazine, Driving the Golden Spike, where the tracks are offset.

Paul, I believe that we may be showing our age

 

[mark handler]

Reminds me of an old cartoon in Mad magazine, Driving the Golden Spike, where the tracks are offset.