pontiac1940
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Post by pontiac1940 on May 27, 2023 15:00:51 GMT
BuckSkin Lots of rail cars. So, I wonder how many rail cars there are in North America. Tankers. Hoppers. Box. Flat. Auto carriers. Lumber carriers. More. One million? Hummm ... Might have to ask Google. Update. Here. About 1.7 million cars. When I went back, the site blocked me because I don't have an account. But I did a screenshot before exiting and can post of you can't get in.
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Post by BuckSkin on May 27, 2023 17:27:27 GMT
I lasted about two and a half seconds before they had greyed over the information and covered the screen with various white squares of "how to see more"; it's only $49/month for a starter account. I will say one thing = this is the first link on this site that I have ever clicked on and not been blocked from proceeding due to vigi-link being on the bad guys list; maybe the powers that be have quit using vigi-link. As for how many? --- it would be a monumental task to account for them all; as, there are so many more rail-cars that are owned by bankers and investment companies than are actually owned by the railroads themselves; and, there are dozens upon dozens of these rail-car owning capitalists. I worked for Norfolk Southern at Danville Yard for a while; I knew a powerful lot about railroads before I started and a lot more after being there. A fact that not many know is that there are a whole lot more rail-cars in America than there are parking places for them. Thousands upon thousands of empty rail-cars are constantly being shuffled back and forth in revenue trains as there is just no place to park them. If the greenie energy freaks knew this; they would be in a panic. The reason for this is due to our government, in all their greedy wisdom, in the 1970s, putting a high tax on every foot of trackage owned. In response to this, railroads went on a spree of abandoning thousands of usable and useful lines, ripping up track and abandoning them; as, the tax was far more than the income the tracks were producing. This was all brought about when they figured out that, unlike trucking companies who use public highways for their business, railroads actually own and hold deed to their "roads" and therefore were not paying any highway usage taxes or fuel taxes (and should not have to since they own the road). And, as they own their roads, the railroads build and maintain them with railroad men and money; and, get things up and running a lot quicker. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on May 27, 2023 17:36:43 GMT
Lots of politics in RRs. I lasted about two and a half seconds before they had greyed over the information and covered the screen with various white squares of "how to see more" About 1.6 million. I was close enough at 1 million. The first visit at that site was not blocked..only when I went back. Took a screen shot the first visit.  |
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