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<h1> Diesel Creek </h1>
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<!-- perspective: neutral / (weak) Jack -->
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<p>
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Michelle asks: <span class="quote speech">And you really expect to find
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anything here that can be salvaged?</span><br />
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The four are walking into a valley in a large forested area.<br />
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Jack replies: <span class="quote speech">Right now, I'm not even
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sure this is the place – everything looks so different – but
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if it is, we'll have plenty machines to choose from and a bunch
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more for parts.</span><br />
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James gestures to the side, saying:
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<span class="quote speech">Look, over there.</span><br />
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He points to a group of very rusty and completely overgrown machines.
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<br />
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Annie asks: <span class="quote speech">How did they get inbetween
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the trees?</span><br />
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Jack says: <span class="quote speech">They didn't. The machines
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came first, the trees grew after. This area wasn't even a forest
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back then.</span><br />
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They make their way over to take a closer look.
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</p>
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<p>
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Jack says: <span class="quote speech">Looks like these were already
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out of order before they were abandoned.</span><br />
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He turns to Annie and James:
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<span class="quote speech">This is an excavator. We're looking for
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a big one like this, maybe a bit smaller, but not as small as that one
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over there – and preferably without trees growing out of
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it...</span><br />
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He points to a mini excavator sitting askew on a tree trunk that had
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grown through its floor and out the side.<br />
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James asks: <span class="quote speech">Why not just use this big one?
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What's wrong with it?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">This thing's just done for. It's
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more rust than steel, missing its tracks and hydraulics for the bucket,
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and it looks like someone got a bit carried away trying to remove the
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cab.</span><br />
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They take a quick look at the other machines around them. Apart from the
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two excavators, there is a dump truck, a <span class="comment"> what's
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the name of that machine with a conveyor belt that sorts large rocks and
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rubble from sand?
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ChatGPT says "screening plant" but also refers to it as a
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"vibrating belt sorter". Research that.
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It also gives a good description of what it does:
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"splits rubble into chunks, fines, and dust."
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-->
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</span>, and two loaders. All of them
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are rusted beyond repair and missing integral parts.<br />
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</p>
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<p>
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A bit further down the valley, they find a much larger assortment of
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machines, parked in long rows and parted out just like the first ones
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they saw.<br />
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Jack says: <span class="quote speech">Welcome to the machine graveyard.
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If memory serves right, there should be a few buildings back there and
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one of the main parking lots behind them.</span><br />
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While they make their way through between the machines, Annie asks:<br />
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<span class="quote speech">So these machines dug out the dome?</span>
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<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Well... no. That was mostly done using
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explosives, conveyor belts, and trains. They used loaders to get the
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stuff onto conveyors but most of the machines here were used in
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construction after the digging was done.</span><br />
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</p>
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<p>
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The buildings are in rough shape, some much worse than others. Most
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don't have rooves, a few have been completely reduced to foundations
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and piles of rubble. The four walk through a gap between them and find
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themselves on the parking lot. Instead of a forest, they find it mostly
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overgrown with bushes and young trees. They split up and start roaming
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the area.
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</p>
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<p class="comment">
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research that needs to be done:<br />
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→When were hydraulic excavators invented?<br />
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→When did they get the ability to use a jackhammer attachment?<br />
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→When did cable shovels go out of fashion? (Apparently never,
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depending on use case. From a quick image search, modern ones seem to be
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huge industrial machines.)<br />
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</p>
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<p>
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Annie calls the others over to one of the buildings.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Look what I found...</span><br />
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Michelle arrives before Jack and she laughs. He arrives a moment
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later and peeks inside. There sits a cable shovel, partially covered
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in rubble from the <span class="comment">caved-in? fallen-in?</span>
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roof – rusty but surprisingly intact.
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<br />
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Jack says: <span class="quote speech">That's ... uhhh ... kind of
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a historical artifact.</span><br />
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"I mean, everything here is a historical artifact."
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"Fair enough, but this especially so."
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There is also a kinda small hydraulic excavator.
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They decide to make both work.
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This is for another chapter but here is a list of things they might do:
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- strip parts off of other machines
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- modify or create parts at the Ivydale train yard
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- swap out a beyond-repair engine - with a different one that
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doesn't fit ofc
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- weld things to the machines for botched but improved
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structural integrity
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- maybe come up with an alternative for hydraulic fluid if it isn't too
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far fetched, alternatively scavenge it from other machines or trade
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for it
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- find a grabber attachment for the excavator
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- DIY electronics
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-->
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</p>
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<p>
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<span class="comment">missing section</span>
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</p>
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<p>
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<span class="comment">
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Things that need research: Did early hydraulic excavators have starter
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engines (what were they called again?) or was that a thing of the past
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by then?<br />
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Events:<br />
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-> they take off some access panels<br />
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-> they manage to get the starte engine going<br />
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-> large engine won't start (why?)<br />
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</span>
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</p>
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