zugmann Think they'll use regular boxcars, or spring for plug doors?
Think they'll use regular boxcars, or spring for plug doors?
Plug doors - the better to muffle the moans coming from within...
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Where's the 102000 recall notices. They forgot the shackles and chains!
The fun part of this for those of us familiar with railroading (even at the hobby level) is understanding that what these conspiracy theorists see as gospel is, in fact, not only unlikely, but near impossible. Or at least highly implausible.
But that's never stopped 'em before!
Have fun with your trains
BaltACD SALfan Seems like I've seen pictures of 85-foot boxcars (or maybe it's my meds kicking in again). Anyway, an unbroken cut of 102,000 of the 85-footers would be over 1640 miles long. If 65-foot is a more common length, 102,000 of them coupled together would be over 1250 miles long. Either way, that's a LOT (like a quadruple sh**load) of boxcars. To put it in terms of distances at least some of us have thought of lately, 1640 miles is both tracks of UP's double-tracking project from San Antonio, TX to Los Angeles. If someone ordered that many cars from a carbuilder, that carbuilder's executive staff would all croak from heart attacks. If we were building 102K cars that might be enough demand to even fire up a steel mill or two in the US
SALfan Seems like I've seen pictures of 85-foot boxcars (or maybe it's my meds kicking in again). Anyway, an unbroken cut of 102,000 of the 85-footers would be over 1640 miles long. If 65-foot is a more common length, 102,000 of them coupled together would be over 1250 miles long. Either way, that's a LOT (like a quadruple sh**load) of boxcars. To put it in terms of distances at least some of us have thought of lately, 1640 miles is both tracks of UP's double-tracking project from San Antonio, TX to Los Angeles. If someone ordered that many cars from a carbuilder, that carbuilder's executive staff would all croak from heart attacks.
Seems like I've seen pictures of 85-foot boxcars (or maybe it's my meds kicking in again). Anyway, an unbroken cut of 102,000 of the 85-footers would be over 1640 miles long. If 65-foot is a more common length, 102,000 of them coupled together would be over 1250 miles long. Either way, that's a LOT (like a quadruple sh**load) of boxcars. To put it in terms of distances at least some of us have thought of lately, 1640 miles is both tracks of UP's double-tracking project from San Antonio, TX to Los Angeles. If someone ordered that many cars from a carbuilder, that carbuilder's executive staff would all croak from heart attacks.
If we were building 102K cars that might be enough demand to even fire up a steel mill or two in the US
Johnny
"As a forced laborer, Krzemieniecki was compelled to work as a "sorter and tabulator" 10 hours per day for two years. He never realized that his work involved the transportation of Jews to gas chambers. "I only know that this very modern equipment made possible the control of all the railway traffic in the General Government," he said. Krzemieniecki recalled that an "outside technician," who spoke German and Polish and "did not work for the railroad," was almost constantly on-site to keep the machines running, performing major maintenance monthly. IBM's tailored railroad-management programs, several million custom-designed punch cards printed at IBM's print shop at 6 Rymarska Street, across from the Warsaw Ghetto, and the railway's leased machines were under the New York-controlled subsidiary in Warsaw, not the German subsidiary, Dehomag."
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/black.html
The government is already in the railroad business. Amtrak. Julie has your name. Julie has your number. Your reservation awaits.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
zardoz Considering how well FEMA has performed in the last few years (think Katrina and Sandy), I doubt we have too much to worry about.
Considering how well FEMA has performed in the last few years (think Katrina and Sandy), I doubt we have too much to worry about.
Although they're probably in the same boat as the Red Cross, which got complaints for not being responsive - people said they hadn't seen them at all. Of course, if they'd walked a block or two over - there they were...
102,000 boxcars -- where in the world are there enough tracks to store that many?
One thing our government has always excelled at is using any power we give it, often to excess.
Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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NittanyLionYes, actually.
In that case American freedom is in no danger. Even if those white box cars were to round us all up our government could never accomplish the task.
John WR BonasAssuming that the Gov. wanted to round folks up...just think of the logisatial nightmare this would be. Does our freedom depend on government incompetence?
BonasAssuming that the Gov. wanted to round folks up...just think of the logisatial nightmare this would be.
Does our freedom depend on government incompetence?
Yes, actually.
Assuming that the Gov. wanted to round folks up...just think of the logisatial nightmare this would be. America just does not have the experatise and efficancy that Germany had.
greyhounds OK, don't do this, but... Get a photo of some boxcar, a reefer would be best, with some unreadable stenciling. Then computer generate a "close up" of the stenciling on the photo. Have the fake stenciling read something like:
OK, don't do this, but...
Get a photo of some boxcar, a reefer would be best, with some unreadable stenciling.
Then computer generate a "close up" of the stenciling on the photo. Have the fake stenciling read something like:
I like Houston Ed's idea - a little more obscure, but right up these folk's alley:
Make a small stencil with lettering about 1” tall, one that reads… “Leased to FEMA under the REX 84 plan, ownership vested in a security agreement registered with the Federal Government”. Now, take some black or white sidewalk chalk…and right about eye level….
Make a small stencil with lettering about 1” tall, one that reads…
“Leased to FEMA under the REX 84 plan,
ownership vested in a security agreement
registered with the Federal Government”.
Now, take some black or white sidewalk chalk…and right about eye level….
Carefully planted about the 'Net, I'm sure the images would be quickly embraced bought, hook, line and sinker by those so inclined.
Anybody with any ability in Photoshop or another such program could easily turn such images out. Not that I'd encourage such, but.... Sure is tempting!
102,000? are there actually even that many real boxcars still in actual revenue service today?
greyhoundsFarmington, NM, of course, has no rail service. It was on the D&RGW narrow gauge.
You haven't heard of the secret vacuum tube line that goes there?
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
NittanyLionWe were somehow going to take down the government and install a new, sinister government.
A new, sinister government? Okay. I am getting tired of our old, sinister government.
Of course, the railroads don't help their cause when they put unintelligible words (like "ARMN") on the sides of these cars. That just has to be a code for something sinister!The Greenbrier Companies (owners of Gunderson, the plant mentioned in this piece), just was bragging about having orders for 5400 new railroad cars of all types. You would think that an order for 102,000 cars would be cause for celebration. And box cars...I don't think there have been that many built over the past 25 years (of course, "box cars" could cover everything that isn't a flat car in the dumbed-down coverage of the day). What really grinds me is the labeling of this as a "Christian" perspective on the news to lend it an air of authenticity.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
"Shackle/Guillotine equipped car. When empty return to FEMA, Farmington, NM. Do not move empty unless all hurman remains, including detached heads, blood and/or guts have been removed"
Post it on the Internet.
Some folks would believe it. So, as I said, I don't think anyone should do it. But it's a funny thought.
Farmington, NM, of course, has no rail service. It was on the D&RGW narrow gauge.
BaltACD samfp1943 cat992c "...Just read this on google.Can any shed any light on this?Who is making them and what railroad is goin got handle all this?.." OMG! This must really be true! I just searched Google [White Railroad Boxcars with Shackles]: it Came up with 22,300 results in 0.23 seconds! You just know it must be true....Cause they cannot post bogus stuff on the Internet! Here's one of the links @ http://americanholocaustcoming.blogspot.com/2009/02/unfema-prisoner-boxcars-with-shackles.html FTA: "UN/FEMA Prisoner Boxcars With Shackles, Guillotines, And the NWO AGENDA for "AMERIKA" "UN/FEMA Prisoner Boxcars With Shackles, Guillotines, And the NWO AGENDA for "AMERIKA"NO LONGER Considered "URBAN LEGEND" "The FEMA Boxcars Are Now CONFIRMED REALITY"-by Pamela Schuffert, providing investigative journalism with a Christian perspective Complete story at posted link. What makes the above scary is that not only do they vote - they breed!
samfp1943 cat992c "...Just read this on google.Can any shed any light on this?Who is making them and what railroad is goin got handle all this?.." OMG! This must really be true! I just searched Google [White Railroad Boxcars with Shackles]: it Came up with 22,300 results in 0.23 seconds! You just know it must be true....Cause they cannot post bogus stuff on the Internet! Here's one of the links @ http://americanholocaustcoming.blogspot.com/2009/02/unfema-prisoner-boxcars-with-shackles.html FTA: "UN/FEMA Prisoner Boxcars With Shackles, Guillotines, And the NWO AGENDA for "AMERIKA" "UN/FEMA Prisoner Boxcars With Shackles, Guillotines, And the NWO AGENDA for "AMERIKA"NO LONGER Considered "URBAN LEGEND" "The FEMA Boxcars Are Now CONFIRMED REALITY"-by Pamela Schuffert, providing investigative journalism with a Christian perspective Complete story at posted link.
cat992c "...Just read this on google.Can any shed any light on this?Who is making them and what railroad is goin got handle all this?.."
"...Just read this on google.Can any shed any light on this?Who is making them and what railroad is goin got handle all this?.."
OMG! This must really be true!
I just searched Google [White Railroad Boxcars with Shackles]:
it Came up with 22,300 results in 0.23 seconds! You just know it must be true....Cause they cannot post bogus stuff on the Internet!
Here's one of the links @
http://americanholocaustcoming.blogspot.com/2009/02/unfema-prisoner-boxcars-with-shackles.html
FTA: "UN/FEMA Prisoner Boxcars With Shackles, Guillotines, And the NWO AGENDA for "AMERIKA"
"UN/FEMA Prisoner Boxcars With Shackles, Guillotines, And the NWO AGENDA for "AMERIKA"NO LONGER Considered "URBAN LEGEND" "The FEMA Boxcars Are Now CONFIRMED REALITY"-by Pamela Schuffert, providing investigative journalism with a Christian perspective
Complete story at posted link.
What makes the above scary is that not only do they vote - they breed!
Maybe a FEMA boxcar would be a better alternative?
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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Something occurred to me the other day. You don't suppose that these FEMA cars and the plans for the Omaha to Grand Forks passenger corridor are somehow related?
Jeff
Will this ever just die and go away?
What really makes me laugh is that supposedly UN troops are going to "take over" the US.... the same UN that cannot maintain control over some tiny half-a$$ third world African nation that has more bananas than guns, here in a country who's citizens are better armed than all of Europe combined. Oy Vey!
Sam, I called the link up, and it astounded me that anyone could have been so taken in.
I wonder what was mistaken for guillotines.
edblysard Shhhhh….they monitor this stuff you know.
Shhhhh….they monitor this stuff you know.
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