Words of Advice:
"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne
“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *
"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown
“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie
"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul
"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad
"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown
"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers
"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown
"Eck!" -- George the Cat
* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone
5 comments:
A diesel-electric could have done the same job, with the advantage of being able to run on electric power when winter weather hasn't shorted out the third rail. That's how trains get into New York City, after all -- they switch to overhead catenary and run on their electric motors (all diesel-electric trains are electric trains, they're just carrying their generator along with them) to go through the tunnel.
The real issue here is that the municipal transit agency didn't have any diesel traction engines available when their third rails shorted out. That points out a major issue with the common Muni paradigm of self-powered passenger cars (rail cars where they move because of electric motors at their wheels, whether powered by third rail or by overhead catenary), there's no backup if the power goes out. Add in bad weather, where power goes out much more often, and you have the Muni coming to a halt more often than it should...
Sometimes, my feathered aquatic friend, you can be a real buzzkill. :)
I bet this just made your day, didn't it ?
Don
Don, yes, it did. I'm fascinated by the act that the Brits managed to get together about six million bucks (or 347 euros) in order to build a new steam locomotive.
I'm trying to extract a steam punk joke out of this.
England. Steam locomotive. Failure of modern technology...
And yet I can't.
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