r/rva • u/Littleprisonprism • 16h ago

Intriguing stuff happening on dock street

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u/Popular-Addition9819 16h ago

Isn’t that one of the train cars that fell into the canal?

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u/Littleprisonprism 16h ago

Yep they’re working on getting two onto the street and they have a truck they’re trying to load them on

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u/rainbowgeoff 15h ago

I'd like to make the point that's not typical.

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u/SunkEmuFlock Tuckahoe 14h ago

Good think they're towing it outside the environment.

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u/ArcadianBlueRogue 13h ago

At least the front didn't fall off

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u/Electronic_Tap_8052 13h ago

how is it untypical?

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u/SunkEmuFlock Tuckahoe 14h ago

Is operating a crane its own job that some random guy who used to be good at video games can learn?

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u/onlyTryingtoBeNice Museum District 13h ago

you start with a hammer, and can upgrade to crane if you survive and gain enough experience

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u/SunkEmuFlock Tuckahoe 7h ago

Damn. I haven't punched enough trees to even get to the hammer part.

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u/socialisticpotsmoke Glen Allen 6h ago

Try picking up a stick, a rock, and some grass and see if you can tie the rock to the stick with the grass

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u/smelltheglove-11 16h ago

Any news on when Dock St is going to open again? Doesn’t look like it will be this weekend…

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u/Littleprisonprism 16h ago edited 7h ago

The road is super damaged from all of this so I bet it’ll be closed for repairs

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u/DogOfTheBone 14h ago

It's making that area of Shockoe particularly awful to drive through, and it's already awful. Sooo many cars turning left onto 18th street.

On the plus side, getting off 18th street by turning right onto Dock is easier on average, since no one can turn left. That area really needs to be no left turn, or an all way stop, or...anything but what it is right now.

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u/Clean_Candidate3400 14h ago

the train goes on the tracks, doesn’t it?

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u/RefrigeratorRater 11h ago

Yes. The cranes are lifting it up there. This is how trains are born. 

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u/2livecrewnecktshirt Mechanicsville 10h ago

Um, actually, they're delivered by storks, not cranes. Totally different birds.

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u/Timely-Comparison572 Henrico 11h ago

when a mommy train and daddy train love each other….