Posted on 12/04/2022 2:32:47 PM PST by jfd1776
The United States have a lot of railroads — big national lines and short regional lines, freight railways that share their track with commuter lines, lines designed with high clearance for container stacktrains.
And while there are still a few tycoons in the world, the days of the railroads being the shining monuments to a single millionaire's fortune are long past; many of our railroads, like most big corporations nowadays, are publicly traded and are therefore owned and controlled by the nameless, faceless fund managers of Wall Street.
To have all these railroads, you need a lot of employees. Here, too, there have been changes over the years. In the 1800s, you needed a whole crew of engineers, of brakemen and firemen, to stoke the engine and keep the trains moving.
Modern equipment has reduced the need for such crews; most trains now have just two men in the front locomotive, with a few unmanned locomotives behind, and perhaps hundreds of boxcars, tankcars, and other railcars in tow. Just two men...and some of the railroads lobby the government every day for permission to reduce that number to one. Just one man in charge of a mile-long train.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
After he boned the pipeline workers.
Black and jewish voters believe dems give a damn.
‘Railroad Union Calls For A THIRD PARTY After Dems Break Their Strike’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOQsJx4q5wQ
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