Daily News Thread 3/16

mother. fucking. pigs.

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LMAO, this guy lives near me. His house is in the gated rich people part of Orange Beach.

Dumb Quisling cunts. There is literally no point in sucking the Anglo Zio cock when you're about to embark on a trade war with them. And if the Amerimuts want war, likely nothing will dissuade them anyway.

just fyi this began as Electro-Motive Division, a unit under General Motors. GM sold it off as part of a corporate restructuring in the early 2000s, right before the morgage meltdown ruined the economy (and their car sales). Under Caterpillar EMD has made a lot of money. Also the comment about steel tariffs is total bullshit because Cat is big enough to just shove the added cost onto their enterprise clients who will still buy because Cat is one of the few companies able to offer automated vehicles for use on private property. The other company is John Deere, another IL-based equipment manufacturer who doesn't do their own rail manufacturing at all (which means: less money).

Also there's the much broader turn against internal combustion anyway, EMD/CAT in particular made BNSF's H2 cell locomotive which is still in use in California's ports who have to abide by strict emissions guidelines. The same technologies are licensed out to the companies who make the trucks that move cargo around the port itself. I mention this to demonstrate that Cat is making a lot of money with a lot of potential for growth.

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For clarity: growth that does not require engines nor engine manufacturing plants. Let's suppose Caterpillar tries going full bore into offering H2 cell products (100% feasible and practical, their equipment all uses electric drivetrains anyway so it's just plug-and-play), they'd make a huge amount of money from liberal states like CA, IL and NY while at the same time no longer needing to build engines.

This is what "automation" actually looks like: not a robot taking over a job, but a labor-intensive piece of equipment (a diesel engine) being replaced with something much simpler (a hydrogen fuel cell). Ironically it's a change the fossil fuel industry is largely indifferent towards, since they are also capable of supplying Hydrogen alongside their other Hydro-Carbon products like gasoline. It also manages to be slightly greener than pure battery powered trains too, since the minerals extracted to create batteries are usually done in environmentally destructive ways. Not nearly as green as an actual electric railroad though, but it does cut out local emissions.

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Also the hottest irony: GM could have made all this money, but gave it up to build H2s.

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You seem to know your trains. What's the point of fuel cell trains? Is non electrified track still that important?

new strait crisis soon
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Electrifying track costs a lot of money to construct, doing so requires the railroad to build their own private power grid. As anti-trust legislation forbids them from selling excess power onto the actual power grid, they have zero incentive to build. On that note one of the original purposes of antitrust laws was to destroy the power railroads had over communities, an individual trolley line usually supplied the communities around it with power and telephone access at immense profit. And thus is why everyone was so happy to destroy them once an alternative (the automobile) came around in the 1920s.

To understand how much influence railroads used to have, about 25% of all internet traffic flows on Union Pacific owned land through northern California, built upon the original Transcontinental Telegraph. It's why the NSA's huge supercomputer is in Utah, adjacent the train tracks. The tracks' previous owner, Southern Pacific, also founded Sprint (Southern Pacific Internal Network Telecommunications) which is now a major cellphone provider. SP's founder also created Stanford University, who owns their own linear particle accelerator. The antitrust laws keep them from forming the huge, uncontrollable monopoly like they used to be.

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One more on the pile of "why you shoudldn't have private rail".

Be careful what you wish for. On the other extreme is the Interstate Highway System, a controversial device that is more or less a subsidy for auto, oil, trucking and homebuilding companies. It also did an amazing job of causing white flight and creating the modern all-residential suburb. It also destroyed most major US cities, for example Sacramento, California sacrificed it's riverfront "slum" for Interstate 5 which was built in it's place. Boston removed entire neighborhoods, part of a greater project which included the elevated Central Artery, which was replaced a few years ago with an underground freeway with more lanes. Meanwhile the disconnect between Boston's North and South continues to exist because nobody ever thought to spend that type of money on transit when cars existed.

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Trains are so awesome but why is there a Hatred betwen GM EMD's and GE?
Could some on explains this to me?

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Probably foamers foaming about how new trains aren't pure and perfect like they were when they were twelve.

This actually relates to leftism in a big way, in the infamous 1985 agreement made between America's major railroads and the then new(ish) United Transportation Union, which changed the way their pensions work. This angered the older union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, who don't consider them pure or militant enough. Specifically UTU approaches trains like any other industrial device like cranes, rock crushers, cement mixers or factory equipment whereas BLET considers train operating similar to a piloting job.

BLET's leadership also knew Trotsky personally before he was assassinated in Mexico, whereas the UTU are filled with people who are ok with the idea of intermodal containers (which BLET opposed because containers made the job of loading gangs irrelevant, a manner similar to how better electronic train controls made the rear caboose and brakeman irrelevant).

You can witness this fight here, which will exist for another 40-50 years until all the pre-85 pension havers completely die off:

members.tripod.com/ble794/1985_national_agreement.htm

utu953.org/general/agreements/national/85/q_a.htm

ble-t.org/pr/archive/bleqna.html

trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1134114

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Can someone explain to me why trains get autistically powerful fandoms?

They're colored boxes and you can make them go fast on a train track, this much is known by model train manufacturers and factors in the abuse/retention they use to keep their victims/customers coming back. Notably this cycle is broken once train lovers figure out how to paint their own trains.

it's that simple

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So what you're saying is… model train painting, is anti-imperialist, and perhaps revolutionary.

yes because it promotes self-reliance, self-improvement and maturity as opposed to blowing $100 more for the same thing but premade. Same also applies to model train parts as a whole now that 3d printing exists. This much is known in the modelling community, in all trades really. It's what separates iphone users from Richard Stallman, head of the GNU project. Going back even further it's why Mormons make all their own guns and reload their own ammunition, as opposed to just buying it. This is also how silencers are made.

In the modern era this is where the soyboy meme comes from.

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If you paint your own models and become proficient at it, they just end up looking awesome.
I wish, I had the money to afford a hobby like modeling, since I was a kid I always was so fascinated with trains, tanks and airplanes.

it's really a sad situation the state of rail roads in the US
if you knew how sad the situation of rail roads is in Mexico.

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They sacrificed a whole burrough for that higheway. Also no Bronx expressway no Hip Hop probably.

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The Harvey's in my town is part of this bankruptcy closing. With it gone it leaves only the Walmart and an IGA grocer left. This town of ~9,000 can have 11 banks but only 2 grocery stores.
I hate this shitty country

Please nuke us