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Alphabet wrote:Wait....It wasn't Neo Nazi terrorists trying to start up the 4th Reich?
You mean like train derailments, and other infrastructure shit happens this much every fucking year, and it isn't some White Power conspiracy?
You don't say?
You should just tell them it's Nazis.
Michael wrote:Back when computers were a new thing on trains. I was involved in getting rid of station agents because computers. One of our witnesses recounted an argument he had over the phone with a dispatcher on the other side of the country over a missing tank car full of hazmat. The dispatcher insisted that the car was on the siding where it was
supposed to be because the computer said so. Finally, the customer told the dispatcher told the dispatcher that he was standing on the siding and there were no cars of any kind to be seen anywhere. The dispatcher still argued with him. As I recall, they eventually found it in Wyoming. An agent probably wouldn't have prevented the problem, but it does speak to putting too much reliance on systems with no back up.
Kurt wrote:Anyway, most US rail lines seem to be a crap festival. Weare probably going to find a secret cabal of mutton chopped men wearing top hats holed up in a chop house in NYC or Pittsburgh that really run the country inbetween bouts of Gout and Pleurisy.
Michael wrote:Kurt wrote:Anyway, most US rail lines seem to be a crap festival. Weare probably going to find a secret cabal of mutton chopped men wearing top hats holed up in a chop house in NYC or Pittsburgh that really run the country inbetween bouts of Gout and Pleurisy.
I have always maintained that the rail industry is far and away the most progressive industry that is still in the 19th century...
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