The Ohio Central Railroad System is a network of ten short line railroads operating in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. It is owned by Genesee & Wyoming
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The Ohio Central Railroad System is a network of ten short line railroads operating in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. It is owned by Genesee & Wyoming
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1626356622279819264
I dig some digging on YouTube and I found even worse than that one!
-SB
Parking this here, foldspace’s offerings yestereday about the theater blowing up rang a bell. This is what I read at the time, and since I have been following the news on the Ukraine/Russia war carefullY (obsessively...?), this is the other side of the news. I remember that the Azov battalion had forced a lot of citizens into that building as hostages. Foldspace, I know you and I have very different views about Putin and Russia doings. I read about this event in real time, over a period of days. The Ukrainian military and paramilitary battalions regularly fired from civilian buildings and would often force the people inside the buildings so they could not escape, even locking doors shut. I remember when Russia wanted to have a truce to created a corridor allow citizens to escape the city and Ukraine was not cooperative, still fired on civilians.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552101-mariupol-theater-ukraine/
The Russian military said it was aware of reports that Azov militants had kept civilians inside the theater as a human shield, and had not considered the building a target for airstrikes for that reason, Major-General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.
“Previously, it was known from the refugees who got out of Mariupol that the Nazis of the Azov Battalion might be holding civilians hostage in the theater building, using the upper floors as firing points,” Konashenkov said.
Taking into account the potential danger to those sheltering, and what he alleged was “the provocation already carried out by the nationalists on March 9 at Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol, the theater building in the city center was never considered a target for destruction,” he added.
According to Konashenkov, the “available reliable information” indicated that the Azov militants had committed what he called “a new bloody provocation by blowing up the theater building they had mined.”
The paramilitary unit, the emblem of which depicts Second World War Nazi symbols, has allegedly made Mariupol its base, and reportedly forbade civilians from fleeing to safety as Russian forces and fighters from the Donetsk People’s Republic surrounded the city.
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The G&W has just undergone an interesting proctological exam and post-exam spanking by the EPA. If one wishes to learn how obtuse and arcane are the modern emissions requirements that railroads face, it is a profitable if confusing read. The EPA has been out to kill internal and external combustion engines whether it is done quickly or one at a time. The mental exercises of "Tiers" and credits will make the average person's eyes glaze over, but it is in place and the EPA pursues it like Inspector Javert.
But WRT that footage of the track, a telephoto lens exaggerates track defects. Yes, it is poorly maintained trackage, but that is not a rarity in the US and never has been. It is as similar to what NS has through East Palestine, OH as a B Level maintenance gravel road is to an interstate highway, Sort of like comparing raisins to grapes. My guess is that that particular track has a 10MPH maximum speed restriction; the footage may have also been sped up to accentuate the rock & roll of the train.
The push is on to have electric, autonomous trains on a nationalized rail network, and we have just seen a new crisis that won't go to waste in a renewed effort to turn the railroads into a genuine state monoply rather than what has become something of a crypto-fascist setup that allows the Vanguards and Blackrocks to get dividends from corporations that have a railroad attached until there aren't any more railroad assets to dispose of.
