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Train Track Farmers Market

I think the manager should be fired!!! :shock: :shock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MENjFkEAj9g&feature=related

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:shock: No kidding, that's terrible. :(

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Can't believe it.

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Actually, I think its scary cool. [img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/runforhills.gif[/img] :lol:

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DoubleDogFarm wrote:Actually, I think its scary cool. [img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/runforhills.gif[/img] :lol:

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NO, not cool

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I won't post our farmer's markets, then. That's pretty typical, and there's one near my house where the farmers have taken over the sidewalks and part of the road as well, and move their stuff to let the cars pass....

I don't know that I'd shop somewhere that had that close a brush with a train, though....

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That's so cool I wish we had some of those here. Crazy how some of the produce is inches away from the train.

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That market is in Bangaladesh or Pakistan, Photos exisat of it going back to the seventies...

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lorax wrote:I won't post our farmer's markets, then. That's pretty typical, and there's one near my house where the farmers have taken over the sidewalks and part of the road as well, and move their stuff to let the cars pass....

I don't know that I'd shop somewhere that had that close a brush with a train, though....
I'm interested, please show. :)

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DoubleDogFarm wrote:I'm interested, please show. :)
Eric
Yes, we definitely want to see it, even if to cringe and look away.

On another site, one of the members liked the way the forum was able to
"provide a great deal of entertainment ..... in a Talledega Nascar pile-up kinda way."[/b]

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I'll take pics on Monday, then, when it's at its largest.

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For some reason that video makes entirely no sense.

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I like it. Good use of space that would otherwise be wasted except for the (presumably) few minutes a day the train comes through. Probably they don't have much other room for their market.

It didn't look like anything much got crushed and it is very creative about how they have their awnings hinged to move out of the way of the train and then come right back.

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I think it is great that they are utilizing the space that is available to them. Personally it looks rather dangerous for shoppers, if there are very many at one time...where do they go?



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