"Emergency pollution control crews worked to clean a potentially serious oil spill from the River Des Peres as attempts were made to patch its sources at the Great Lakes Carbon Corp. coke plant on the South Side Thursday. The oil has been leaking into the river from a lagoon that contains an estimated 3 million gallons of waste products, authorities said. Carl Walter, chairman of an environmental response team investigating the incident, estimated that several hundred gallons of oil have leaked through the eastern side of the lagoon since at least Monday. 'But while it is small in quantity, it could pose potentially serious problems,' he said."
Card sent out by John McCain 2008 in support of then-presidential candidate John McCain. On the front of the card is a family seated at a table looking forward. In the bottom left corner, "McCain" is printed in blue with a yellow bar separated in the middle with a star above. Printed below McCain is "Biezczat Family, Las Vegas, NV." The back of the card has a statement regarding McCain's policies
1984. Its car body was built for 125 ton intermediate trucks but was produced with 100 ton intermediate trucks and 70 to end trucks. The GBRX 1984 had the capability to load 40' international containers in all 5 wells and 40' or 45' international containers on top. Tare weight was 217,300 pounds and the load limit per well was 90,000 pounds.
A photograph of the Southern Pacific East Yard Control Tower in San Antonio, Texas. The photograph was taken by John Stein on April 24, 2008, the last day the tower was operational.