Pics that make you laugh |OT 2019| Best Friends Forever
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Buddy, you ain't seen nothin till you've seen a real tankie.
I get it, I work in a public library, which is kind of like a communist bookstore. Funded by public money, belongs to everyone, and no food inside.
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I get it, I work in a public library, which is kind of like a communist bookstore. Funded by public money, belongs to everyone, and no food inside.
Fuckin' hell, I probably shouldn't really laugh at this.
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No food inside is a fucking great idea, I think you may have just converted me to communism.
Meme kinda falls apart when a lot of UN Peacekeepers have done some pretty heinous shit too tho
Eric Cantona has caused a storm by posting a very NSFW video which had me laughing. Just search for his name on twitter and you should find it no problem
Haha
This one is slightly ruined by the fact that I know what they're doing.
Most likely unloading and loading (connecting) cars. It's a painful process if you're in traffic and the loading point is near a street.
Small town near us has the same problem. Once got stuck, while in the field, for 20 minutes on one side of the tracks. There was literally no other outlet due to a river on one side and the train blocking both roads out.
I don't know anything about how American roads and railways are built, but why would you ever have them interfere in such a way? Using a railway crossing just to switch cars seems totally unnecessary, especially because everything is generally more spacious in the US compared, e.g., to Europe. Freight trains exist here as well (albeit not as numerous and shorter), but I don't think I've ever seen anything like this.
Care to share what they're doing with the rest of the class.
I actually can answer that, haha.
It's typically due to the fact that we still use most of the old train rails, despite towns/cities growing around them.
The town in my example use to be a town that manufactured clothing and sodas. The train cars would be stored to load the products and then "picked up" as a train comes through. Everyone worked there, and the towns were small, traffic was limited/almost non-existent...so it was part of life. Now all those factories are gone.
The holding areas for the cars still exist, so they're still used in places like this (vs redesigning and relaying track). So now you have busy towns/cities with old small town "loading and unloading" areas stuck right in the middle of them.
With larger train cars, and more movement than 50-70 years ago, you end up with situations like this. Still using old loading/unloading sites in a modern world where there's tons of vehicle traffic.
See the above :)
Huh, thanks a lot, very interesting indeed.
At least in Germany, a considerable part of the routing is pretty old as well (which is why you have a lot of congestion on stretches that became more popular over time but which you can't easily upgrade to multiple tracks). I guess the difference w.r.t. the US comes down to a mixture of continued efforts of separating car and rail traffic (mostly by digging tunnels under the tracks for cars) and higher population density meaning that even back in the day, such a design would just be in the way for too many people to be considered useful. But that's just an educated guess.
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