Carload freight consists of individual railcars loaded with freight at separate locations that are then collected by a local freight train. This local freight train then takes the railcars to a railyard where they are sorted into longer freight trains to different destinations. These are called "manifest trains." A carload may pass through several railyards before it reaches its destination. Once it gets to the right yard, the process is reversed. The cars are put onto a local train and sent to the recieving customer. Carload freight requires spurs to be built for industries served, but once they are built, they save space and are much better for the planet than trucking. The first carload freight faciities were generally built within cities, sometimes even running in the street. More on this in this episode of :wtyp:. As discussed in that episode, many of these inner city industries were either moved to the suburbs, outsourced, or moved to trucking. Trucking deserves its own thread but in short, is a horrifically exploitative industry that is subsidized by taxpayers in the form of public roads and highways. It's dangerous, bad for the planet, bad for workers, and causes the most damage to the roads. Carload freight that remains is often found in suburban industrial parks, but even those are often dying out. Boxcars are being slowly replaced with trucks and containers that require a truck trip at each end. This is capitalism working as intended. :porky-happy:
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This little text pops up in the bottom left corner of my screen
oh. good to know. I was really curious, but didn't want to press the button on something that wasn't actually supposed to be featured.
Been stuck on a local spot track for multiple days on some carload freight. Always ride towards the back of the freight train kids.
I just found out that my company is hiring for a new position that's exactly what I want to be doing. This could be so fucking life changing for me if I can get the promotion. I could escape from the misery that is customer service. of course I find out about it on a saturday of a long weekend but still :isaac-pog: :isaac-pog: :isaac-pog:
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was at a dinner with a bunch of pmc types last night. this one person there was telling me about this innovative project shes working on for her resources company. their plan is to take the leftover carbon from the 'carbon capture' of doing 'clean' coal burning, and then to process it somehow and ship it to india to feed to pigs in factory farms.
so theyll subsidise the very worst method of energy production, where the greenwashing veneer of 'clean coal' is already paper thin, and then instead of doing even the bare minimum to sequester the tiny amount of reduced carbon emissions by burying it or whatever, theyre just going and using it anyway (but in another country!) to make the already-unbelievabily-horrifying lives of pigs in factory farms even more hellish by switching out their feed and feeding them industrial waste instead. just all the most dystopian bits of capitalism all wrapped into one, presented proudly as 'innovation' from their companys 'sustainability' department
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When I was about 5 or so I remember waking up and seeing a easter bunny hopping down the street. It was probably my neighbor in a suit but it seems super out of character and probably why no one believed me. It was super fucking weird.
I have/had this weird dream, I'm not even sure if it was a dream or it really happened, when I was super young of a baby that looked like Jesus flying though the sky outside of my house, way far off in the distance. I want to think it was a dream during my formative years when Christianity was weird and new to me but it was so vivid and I can still picture it 30 some odd years later. Did I see a fucking UFO or something as a kid?
That's fucking nuts, more than likely it's was a vision of some sort of deity or extraterrestrial
Easily the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me and I never talk about it to anyone because even thinking back on it weirds me out. The only person who knows about it outside of hexbear now, is my one ex. Probably why I find aliens/UFOs so intriguing. The "dream" I'm outside with my grandmother and I think an aunt, who are talking to me, and I see baby jesus in his basket going through the sky, miles away. :scared:
I ate roasted parsnips today. I know they're a Christmas thing but may Allah forgive me they taste so good
had a little bit of a cough, so I did a test and it's not covid 🎉
wonder how I got it, because I mask the fuck up 24/7. I guess a mask only does so much when literally 1/20 people on public transport are masked up (I know, because I count)
man, thank god for this stockpile of free NHS tests I have. defo keeps the anxiety away when you can just test yourself in the bathroom in 2 minutes
What kind of mask are we talking about here? Unless it's a properly fitted N95+, you're doing more to keep your germs from getting to other people than you are preventing their germs from getting to you.
