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Most cemeteries in the Northern states only permit granite. However, a properly carved limestone monument is good for 150 to 200 years without problems.

This is the George Bang memorial in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, carved in 1886 by Engelbert Gast. It's a tree trunk, with carved broken branches, birds on the branches, and a train car going through a cave at the base. (Bang developed the method for trains to grab bags of mail with a hook, so the trains didn't have to stop, greatly speeding up the postal service). It's 129 years old, Indiana limestone, still going strong.

In the second photo you'll see a bird on a stone branch. In the third, note the raised lettering on the rail car is still in good shape.











Originally there was a conductor on the back of the train, he disappeared long ago. Probably someone broke him off and kidnapped him.
 
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It's a shame about the conductor
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Nevertheless, that's still a breathtaking work of art.
 



Local FD were just finishing up a fundraiser when a barn and a house both burst in to flames at the same time... They happened to be 2 miles apart. The barn was 2 miles from me. I put my shoes on an drove over an took pictures. I then drove over an took pictures of the house but it was out already. So I drove back to the barn to take pictures from another angle. I then got spotted by the FD an got drafted. The fire truck on the left of the pictures that the stop sign is in, that was my truck. I ran that truck for years. It was running hot an they brought me in to figure out what was going on.
 

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