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Post by acptulsa on Apr 14, 2016 17:17:03 GMT -8
I figured this would be your first couple of posts. Sheldon. Careful, or someone's going to start calling you Amy... The Kate Shelley 400:The reason Kate Shelley got a train named after her: iagenweb.org/boone/history/kateshelley.htm
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Post by AntiFederalist on Apr 15, 2016 12:23:09 GMT -8
Those F-types are still good looking, for a disease-al.
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Post by AntiFederalist on Apr 16, 2016 8:23:18 GMT -8
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Post by AntiFederalist on Apr 16, 2016 8:26:40 GMT -8
Wiscasset Waterville and Farmington ran a photo special couple weeks ago.
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 16, 2016 5:03:52 GMT -8
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 1, 2017 11:40:12 GMT -8
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 20, 2017 18:52:22 GMT -8
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Post by Origanalist on Oct 26, 2017 3:45:56 GMT -8
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 20, 2017 11:37:30 GMT -8
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 20, 2017 18:02:26 GMT -8
m.railwayage.com/index.php/passenger/intercity/amtrak-train-derails-south-of-seattle.htmlSo the freight railroads have been operating without PTC for 180 years. But it seems to be a potential band-aid for Amtrak's problems, so Congress forces every railroad in the country to use it because Amtrak needs it. Then the freight railroads adapt it and start using it, and Amtrak doesn't because it's not a month from the deadline yet. And the Congress creatures blame the freight railroads for Amtrak's problems. Not this time. The freight railroad sold the government the track. That's one way to avoid being the government's scapegoat.
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 31, 2017 7:43:27 GMT -8
Full Measure just did a piece on California's boondoggle high speed rail project, which is quite a federal gift to the state. And the show did suggest it may just be a boondoggle. But if anyone saw it and now thinks they're informed, and they've seen the topic from both sides now, think again.
The very definition of 'controlled opposition' is a group that is sponsored by an entity to attract its enemies. It then keeps those enemies busy doing stuff which accomplishes nothing. But the propaganda machine has a slightly different interpretation of controlled opposition. In that field, we have 'news' organizations designed to attract anti-government types who hunger for talking points they can use in conversations and casual debates, and make them think they're getting themselves informed when they're getting nothing.
What do the mainstream propaganda machines never say about California's High-Speed Rail Boondoggle? That this political football is so determined to garner support from as many major metropolitan centers that it is attempting to reduce travel time between San Francisco and Los Angeles by routing through San Bernardino. And what does Full Measure, for all its posturing and posing as a fair and balanced outlet unafraid to criticize this thing and call it a boondoggle, fail to tell us? That it makes a stop between San Francisco and Los Angeles in San Bernardino--a city due east of L.A.
No one has ever tried to make the trip from L.A. to Frisco--a city to the north by northwest--quicker by going due east before. There's a reason for this.
Am I wrong in thinking that a rational discussion of this project would hardly be worthy of the adjective 'incisive' if it failed to mention that the trains leaving the City of the Angels begin the journey by going over a hundred miles in the wrong direction?
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Post by Origanalist on Dec 31, 2017 7:52:47 GMT -8
Full Measure just did a piece on California's boondoggle high speed rail project, which is quite a federal gift to the state. And the show did suggest it may just be a boondoggle. But if anyone saw it and now thinks they're informed, and they've seen the topic from both sides now, think again. The very definition of 'controlled opposition' is a group that is sponsored by an entity to attract its enemies. It then keeps those enemies busy doing stuff which accomplishes nothing. But the propaganda machine has a slightly different interpretation of controlled opposition. In that field, we have 'news' organizations designed to attract anti-government types who hunger for talking points they can use in conversations and casual debates, and make them think they're getting themselves informed when they're getting nothing. What do the mainstream propaganda machines never say about California's High-Speed Rail Boondoggle? That this political football is so determined to garner support from as many major metropolitan centers that it is attempting to reduce travel time between San Francisco and Los Angeles by routing through San Bernardino. And what does Full Measure, for all its posturing and posing as a fair and balanced outlet unafraid to criticize this thing and call it a boondoggle, fail to tell us? That it makes a stop between San Francisco and Los Angeles in San Bernardino--a city due east of L.A.No one has ever tried to make the trip from L.A. to Frisco--a city to the north by northwest--quicker by going due east before. There's a reason for this. Am I wrong in thinking that a rational discussion of this project would hardly be worthy of the adjective 'incisive' if it failed to mention that the trains leaving the City of the Angels begin the journey by going over a hundred miles in the wrong direction? Hey, it's only a hundred miles.
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 31, 2017 8:06:25 GMT -8
Actually, I seem to have lied. It's only about sixty miles. But that's not the only detour.
It's going to be funny as hell when this multi-trillion dollar high speed train turns out to take longer to make the Frisco-L.A. turn than the Southern Pacific Coast Starlight did in 1939.
What's not going to be funny at all is what happens to those elevated tracks and multiple long tunnels in the next earthquake.
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