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#14
An old passenger car at the Fox Valley Trolly Museum located in South Elgin, Illinois along Rt. 31. I didnt have a lot of time when I stopped to check this place out but they do have quite a few old relics to look at. This car is so beat up and run down. I wonder how old something has to get before its just beyond "old". I'll have to go back here again and get into a photoshoot.
Company: SOUTH SHORE LINE
Number: 14
Type of car: LENGTHENED STEEL COACH
Builder: PULLMAN
Year built: 1926
Year acquired: 1962
Notes: Lengthened 17.5' during WWII. Open window car.
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CHICAGO -- The Yankees have put A.J. Burnett, Rafael Soriano and Jorge Posada on trade waivers, The Post has learned.
That doesn't mean any of the trio will be dealt. However, they are eligible to be claimed by other clubs within 48 hours. If multiple clubs claim them the team with the lower winning percentage is awarded the claim and can talk trade with the Yankees.
The Yankees can pull the players back, but if they put them out a second time and they get claimed the player goes to the team making the claim.
That's how Jose Canseco became a Yankee in 2000 because the Yankees were trying to block him from going to the Red Sox.
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CONGRATS! Closer Mariano Rivera is congratulated by catcher Francisco Cervelli after recording his 28th save of the season during the Yankees' 3-2 victory over the White Sox.
Since Burnett is owed $49.5 million across the next three seasons and Soriano a combined $25 million in 2012 and 2013, any team claiming them runs the risk of the Yankees letting them go although that is highly unlikely.
Most major league teams put a large part of their roster on waivers for various reasons. Often it's to gauge interest of other clubs and the starting point for offseason deals. Last year the White Sox put a claim in on Manny Ramirez and made a deal with the Dodgers.
There are three types of waivers: outright, trade and optional. The Rays put Johnny Damon, Kyle Farnsworth and James Shields on optional waivers.
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Derek Jeter wasn't in the lineup during the Yankees' 3-2 victory over the White Sox last night, but manager Joe Girardi and the shortstop expect him to play tonight.
"The extra day will help," said Jeter, who was hit on the middle finger of the right hand Sunday. It's the same finger he took a ground ball off Saturday night. "But I am able to play. It's not an issue. I got hit in the same finger, that's what made it worse. I could have played today."
Girardi, who started Eduardo Nunez (0-for-3) at short for the 27th time, said it was easy to sit Jeter.
"I figure if I was going to give him a day on the trip, today was the day to do it," Girardi said.
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Alex Rodriguez will start working out Thursday at the Yankees' minor league complex. And while Girardi doesn't have an exact time frame for Rodriguez to begin a minor league rehab assignment, he doesn't expect his third baseman and cleanup hitter to be out long.
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Vancouver, British Columbia -- Canada beat the U.S. in curling Monday, officially killing the American team's hopes of making the medal podium in a second straight Games.
The news came as little surprise to many people—least of all the U.S. Curling team.
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Chris Plys of the U.S. throws a stone during their men's curling round robin match against France.
"We never really got on one path," says Rick Patzke, the chief operating officer for USA Curling, who said there was never any cohesive plan in place to win and that the training ahead of these Games was essentially a write-off. "There wasn't total buy-in," he says. By the time the Olympics came around, Mr. Patzke adds, USA Curling was resigned to the fact that it was really preparing for 2014. "We started with Sochi and we worked backward," he says.
How did an entire U.S. team end up taking a mulligan on the Olympics?
Olympics: A Curling Letdown
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The U.S. curling teams are struggling, causing some to question the team-selection process and whether they're looking ahead to the next Olympics. Curler Dean Gemmell joins Kelsey Hubbard to talk about the top curling contenders.
Instead of assembling an all-star team of the best curlers in the country—the way some nations do—curling clubs around the U.S. compete in Olympic trials to determine who will make it to the Olympics. In the past, that system has worked—it produced a bronze medal in the 2006 Olympics.
But in the past four years, curling's popularity has grown world-wide, and international competition has picked up. Before these Games, China sent a team to Canada to learn the sport, and Scandinavian countries had begun to improve. At the same time, participation in the U.S. has stayed somewhat stagnant.
Mr. Patzke said that about 18 months ago, USA Curling reached out to the United States Olympic Committee looking for support. "We said we know that we're falling behind here, we better get on the stick."
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See some of the men's and women's curlers in action in Vancouver.
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A look at some of the men's and women's curlers in action at the Vancouver Games.
When the U.S. team, led by captain John Shuster, won the Olympic trials, the USOC provided more support than ever to get them ready for the Olympics. They paid for training, sports psychologists and helped the players get by without working full-time jobs so they could practice for the Olympics.
But in giving them the money, they insisted that USA Curling embark on an ambitious plan to change the culture and structure of the national team. USA Curling enthusiastically embraced the idea, although there was one little problem—there's no way the plan could bear fruit in time to put a decent team on the ice in Vancouver.
After losing to Germany, Switzerland and Denmark in these Games, the U.S. team benched its captain, Mr. Shuster, in favor of a 22-year-old alternate named Chris Plys. It was a move by coaches who wanted to prepare for the future.
"That experience was invaluable in helping me prepare for 2014," said Mr. Plys.
The positives made by USA Curling have done nothing to slow the angry fan mail Mr. Patzke has been receiving. But he says he has found a way to spin that into a positive.
"It shows people actually care," he said.
Write to Reed Albergotti at reed.albergotti@wsj.com
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