Every time we take a Caribbean cruise and tour the islands, I'm amazed at
how even new construction looks old and decaying. I've also noticed that
most concrete structures still have exposed rebar sticking up at the top,
regardless of how old they are.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All of the Soviet-era concrete buildings in Cuba are collapsing because the
> concrete used was such poor quality.
>
> Tina
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Well, that's because I missed that one.
> >
> > I've never seen concrete ties that badly deteriorated. They haven't been
> > around long enough unless, like a lot of the concrete you see in
> > construction projects in that part of the world, it's very low-grade
> > concrete to start with.
> >
> > And those rails definitely look abandoned.
> >
> > On 4/27/15 22:01 : , Goss,Steve wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, Y'all-
> >> I'm surprised nobody else has remarked on the Railway shot.
> >>
> >> It looks like most of the ties are concrete, but in very dilapidated
> >> condition. But there's one section (over a culvert?) that has been
> redone
> >> with new wood ties. That's the opposite of what I see in the states,
> where
> >> it's the wood ties that are old and concrete ties that are new.
> >>
> >> It's especially puzzling why the ties were replaced since the rail shows
> >> that there have been no trains on this track in quite a while.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Steve Goss
> >>
> >>
> >> PESO:
> >>
> >> I finished another page of photos from Bayamo:
> >>
> >> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/cuba&page=26
> >>
> >> Click on each photo and hit Original to view large.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Tina
> >>
> >
> >
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