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American Infrastructure report card for the last 20 years Rail gets a 'B' which is funny given the past couple weeks and the "1000 derailings a year"
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I had to check that "1000 derailings a year" thing because it sounded absurd. Apparently it's real, but it also includes every rail yard accident where a car gets bumped off the rails during normal operations, which make up the bulk of it. The actual "running train falls off the track" part is a minority, so there aren't 1000 of those. I also have no idea what the gently caress Pete is smoking when it sounds like a defense of business as usual, rather than a rallying cry to increase funding and tighten up operations, particularly in cases of toxic and explosive hazards being transported through/near residental areas and near/over major waterways.
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Feb 21, 2023 12:25
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Pete’s job isn’t to make transportation safe and efficient. His job is to bust unions.
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Feb 21, 2023 12:33
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Megillah Gorilla posted:American Infrastructure report card for the last 20 years How dare anyone say that America is not the greatest nation in the world! I'm just glad we finally established ports in 2013
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Feb 21, 2023 13:42
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Mercury was just seen as a very useful fluid. Turns out a superdense metallic fluid has a lot of practical applications! Shame about the toxicity. So that explains why the vacuum gauges I get are in inches of Hg.
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Feb 21, 2023 13:48
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do you have anymore details about this? i am trying to picture how that box worked. was the mercury floating on the gas somehow..? e: oh im dumb, like an upside down fish tank stuck in a giant pool of mercury
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Feb 21, 2023 14:00
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Feb 21, 2023 14:01
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Bird in a Blender posted:So that explains why the vacuum gauges I get are in inches of Hg. Kind of. The mercury manometers that define the scale of your digital or dial gauges are different instruments than mercury‐based vacuum pumps. But ultimately both devices rely on the same material properties of mercury to do their jobs. Here’s a video of a guy who’s married to mercury making a vacuum pump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viJ3T-1KZqY
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Feb 21, 2023 14:03
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Platystemon posted:Kind of. Merkry 💘 Cody
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Feb 21, 2023 14:23
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Megillah Gorilla posted:American Infrastructure report card for the last 20 years F rating for kerning.
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Feb 21, 2023 15:02
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That's like something out of a Hitman game. Why are they having a birthday party in a shipping container?
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Feb 21, 2023 15:33
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Another one where I can't even tell the gender.
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Feb 21, 2023 15:54
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Are the balloons filled with hydrogen?!
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Feb 21, 2023 15:55
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We're running out of helium, I applaud their efforts not to be wasteful. Also considering the burn time it seems they put it in pure and not mixed with oxygen straight out of some funky electrolysis setup, that would've been a much worse time.
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Feb 21, 2023 16:04
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Megillah Gorilla posted:American Infrastructure report card for the last 20 years I think that's a B as in bad
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Feb 21, 2023 16:11
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thisusedyet posted:I think that's a B as in bad ASCE Report Card Grades Explained: A = rear end B = Bad C = Crap D = Dookie F = Fuckin' Christ Almighty...
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Feb 21, 2023 16:46
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:That's like something out of a Hitman game. Like 90% of videos on the internet it’s also very possible it was done on purpose for clicks.
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Feb 21, 2023 16:49
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My wife called me for help because she had a flat tire on the highway. No biggie, let’s see what happened… Hmmm…  
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Feb 21, 2023 17:02
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Is there a bullet hole on the other side?
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Feb 21, 2023 17:04
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Mean streets indeed
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Feb 21, 2023 17:06
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bit of tape and a pump and it'll fix right up
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Feb 21, 2023 17:06
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Atticus_1354 posted:Is there a bullet hole on the other side? Yeah I was gonna say, I’d expect a matching hole in the actual tire, maybe a round got lodged in the tread and picked up, and eventually (or immediately) cooked off against the pavement?
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Feb 21, 2023 17:07
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Did she run through a police roadblock by any chance? Something like a five star GTA pursue?
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Feb 21, 2023 17:17
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Any sudden, unexplained wealth in the form of sequential bills or gold bullion?
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Feb 21, 2023 17:20
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No idea. Yea there was a nasty hole in the tread itself but no sign of what caused it. I did check the body of the car for bullet holes though haha. I assume she ran over a short chunk of rebar of something similar and it wedged itself just right to go through the wheel.
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Feb 21, 2023 17:28
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Aperture Priority posted:No idea. Yea there was a nasty hole in the tread itself but no sign of what caused it. I did check the body of the car for bullet holes though haha. I assume she ran over a short chunk of rebar of something similar and it wedged itself just right to go through the wheel. Whatever was inside .... it's on the loose now!
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_poyvd5hu9t1y0s4d1.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rqecdyojlQ1r0uzl6.mp4
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Feb 21, 2023 18:02
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When the track is too wet in NASCAR they should just get the drivers to switch and race these around until it's dry.
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Bad Munki posted:Yeah I was gonna say, I’d expect a matching hole in the actual tire, maybe a round got lodged in the tread and picked up, and eventually (or immediately) cooked off against the pavement? That wouldn't work. Bullets only have velocity because of the barrel. Did you remove the tire from the rim? Whatever it is might still be in there.
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C.M. Kruger posted:"literally no way to prevent this" says transportation czar in country where it regularly happens Note that this is an all-time low since the FRA started keeping data. There were almost 9000 in 1978.
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Feb 21, 2023 19:31
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Why be thrown from a wreck in one direction, when you can be thrown from the wreck in all directions?
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Feb 21, 2023 19:48
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This also works as a gender reveal.
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Feb 21, 2023 20:40
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Phanatic posted:Note that this is an all-time low since the FRA started keeping data. There were almost 9000 in 1978. I wonder what that value is as a percentage of routes or hours traveled in a year. I’m guessing there was a lot more rail traffic in 1978.
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Just saw this a few minutes ago.  I don't know what that machine is (some kind of flooring machine?), but they were towing the big metal job box on casters with an extension cord. Whatever was in it was heavy as gently caress, judging by the way it was moving. The tender was having to work to keep it from getting out of line and it ran up on the back wheels a few times.
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Feb 21, 2023 21:47
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Lord Hawking posted:I wonder what that value is as a percentage of routes or hours traveled in a year. I’m guessing there was a lot more rail traffic in 1978. Nope. There's about twice as much now.  Source: https://www.railserve.com/stats_records/freight_railroad_traffic_volumes.html
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Deteriorata posted:Nope. There's about twice as much now. I think I saw another chart that indicated that the mileage is very slowly trending down (but still pretty steady), but tonnage transported has shot up.
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Feb 21, 2023 21:52
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Increasing that accident efficiency. Derail smarter, not harder!
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Deteriorata posted:Nope. There's about twice as much now. you must be reading it wrong, it's not possible for something to be better now than it was before
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Deteriorata posted:Nope. There's about twice as much now. Thanks for the info. I had pictured an overall decrease given the shrinking reach of railways that I’ve observed in my lifetime. It’s even more damning for the corporations that they’re transporting more, yet ignoring the infrastructure and workers.
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I read that post as wondering more as a matter of rates per train rather than per ton-mile. Maybe per crew-mile would be a good way to put it? Seems like as Cthulu Carl mentions less trains running much longer could throw off ton-mile based figures.
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