Seen on the street in Kyiv.

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

Sunday, October 22, 2023

The Cost of Ripping Up Those Rails

Amtrak train service was suspended Sunday between Albany and New York City because of a mudslide in Westchester County.

Back in the day, the New York Central would have rerouted those intercity passenger trains down the Harlem Line's Upper Harlem Division. But the Penn Central abandoned the line north of Dover Plains (Metro North later reopened it to Wassaic) and ripped up the tracks.

1 comment:

Eck! said...

Classic example of short sighted goal of profit.

The cause and the problem are the same. Trucking was
flexible and early on cheap. Now its not as flexible
and due to cost of fuel and trucks not cheap either.
Rail has managed to maintain its cost and on a cost
per ton scale remain inexpensive and uses less fuel
to move it..

Another sad story in mass transit.
To that I offer Guthrie's City of New Orleans


Eck!