Atlas Shrugged: The Taggart Tunnel Disaster (Reading)
Posted by Dobrien 2 years, 11 months ago to Entertainment
Skip the first 38 minutes and hear Patrick Gunnels reading of the Taggart Tunnel Disaster.
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What really freaked me out was a few years after I read AS, they tore up one of the railroad tracks where I live. There were two parallel lines, I guess they only used one line, which still runs today, and so they thought they could salvage the steel and sell it to Japan. It got me spooked for awhile. I'm all better now.
Speaking of which, we need to bring back rail. 110 cars stacked two high, pulled by two diesel engines is way more efficient than 220 individual tractor trailers driving cross country. Truckers would run North South routes for regional distribution, but the East West national distribution would be by rail. It could be balanced so that truckers would not lose their jobs, and have shorter working hours, having a better lifestyle, and less accidents on the road.
When I am president, after I fortify the Southern border with 12,000 Dillon M134A miniguns mounted on towers every 1/4 mile, I will bring back rail. And the chain guns firing at will, will create a biological human wall the stench of which from cadaverine and putrescine will deter anything with a nose from approaching the Southern Border. The stench of death is all that is needed for immigration reform.
Buffet bought BNSF in 2009 at a premium. "Hedging a bet". Unadulterated BS!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bu...
I knew 10 years ahead of Warren how valuable rail was. I built the first fixturing for GE's tier 1 locomotive diesel engines. (Still have the prints in my files, along with all the fixture drawings and full cost of manufacture)
GE and Toshiba were in a global race to introduce "traction" motor tech. Full radial field control of the stator to armature made 3 phase look like a Honda 50 to it's Interceptor, gasoline to top-fuel. And fuel was what it was all about.
The second largest consumer of diesel fuel was about to cut it's consumption by 33-35%, second only to the US Navy.
And then: Regulation of on-road diesel emissions 2004. Have to keep the oil companies profitable by shifting cost through regulation to the consumer. "The Spice Must Flow" https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/...
Across the flatlands of the central US, 1.5 mile long trains run with special container flats over 80 feet long stacked 2 high with 40 foot containers. And we got to pay for Buffet's "risk".
I've been working in the fields of rail, OTR truck, electric power plant and oil drilling since 1994, through the medium of manufacturing the prototype and production fixtures, and repairables. I quit, went Galt, shrugged. Ive been offered 2+ times to return.
Disturbed:
No more defending the lies
of the never ending wars.
It's time to make them realize
we will no longer be their whores.
I'm growing my own food, tending my trees, emptying my life vessel for the young who seek relief.
Showed how potentially in real life ignoring reason and logic can be catastrophic , with the twist of projection we see so much of today.
The board reminds me of the January 6 deselect committee.
So many useless eaters, of the liberal "persuasion" gone, poof, just like that. 😄😄👍👍👍
It’s like James Taggart has been cloned over and over.
Now they support the end of fossil fuels by being WOKE. FuQing idiots.
Anything with computers and anything electrical will be dead to us...back to the stone age.
This is not a conspiracy theory or hyperbole ...it's a fact.
Not to mention we are right on track for a 12K cyclical event that will wipe out civilization in one felt swoop. Estimates have it around mid century so keep abreast of where our north and south poles are...right now the north pole is poised to leave the polar region and the south pole already has and they are headed toward each other.
Shields are down 25% or more captain.
He told me before he Quit ,in a company wide review of the pilots on a simulator with no auto pilot there were 29 stalls that occurred.👨🏿✈️👩🏽✈️👩🏽✈️👨🏼✈️👨🏽✈️👨🏾✈️
Interesting factoid from the NTSB. They analyzed single-engine accidents where only the pilot was killed. They compared male and female pilots. The male pilots were good at handling the airplane but made stupid decisions like flying in bad weather or stunting. The women made good decisions and did not do stunts, but had poor airplane handling skills. Still dead is dead.
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity.
DIE.
The nephew He wasn’t woke then but with his second wife ( a stewardess) he is now.
https://transairhawaii.com/
He was unusually curious about the railroads very nerdy you might say. His second wife is 15 yrs younger and a real freak posting very crude stuff on Facebook as my wife tells me. I suppose that little pink piece of oh so valuable real estate has tainted his view point.
I listen to audio books a lot, while driving. (How long can that last?). Of all, the most compelling was Orwell's 1984, cannot remember the narrator, Stephen Ruszeki? a Polish name maybe, compelling, in fact chilling.
Example- Smith is reading a book to himself, it is a child's school book, you hear the narrator, and Smith, and a female teacher all at the same time in one voice- "London was not always the beautiful city we know today.. " Absolute irony combined with disgust.
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