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FEMA has just ordered 102,000 boxcars

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Posted by edblysard on Sunday, March 31, 2013 10:05 PM

I am so tempted, just this once…. Devil

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Posted by zardoz on Monday, April 1, 2013 8:29 AM

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Posted by Lake on Monday, April 1, 2013 2:48 PM

Shiny side out. But you must have the rabbit ears antenna attached to the top with  #14 wires.

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, April 1, 2013 8:19 PM

I was looking at a model railroad supplier's catalog today and realized that there's another group of "white boxcars" on the railroads.  Instead of perforations for ventilation, they've got air conditioners, which would probably help keep the occupants cool enough that they would cause trouble. 

Not only that, but they're insulated, to they screams and moans won't be heard outside...

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 6:44 AM

tree68

I was looking at a model railroad supplier's catalog today and realized that there's another group of "white boxcars" on the railroads.  Instead of perforations for ventilation, they've got air conditioners, which would probably help keep the occupants cool enough that they would cause trouble. 

Not only that, but they're insulated, to they screams and moans won't be heard outside...

And a lot of them run between Florida and the New York area on a regular basis.  Heard something about the contents of the cars being juiced.

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Posted by zugmann on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 7:36 AM

BaltACD

tree68

I was looking at a model railroad supplier's catalog today and realized that there's another group of "white boxcars" on the railroads.  Instead of perforations for ventilation, they've got air conditioners, which would probably help keep the occupants cool enough that they would cause trouble. 

Not only that, but they're insulated, to they screams and moans won't be heard outside...

And a lot of them run between Florida and the New York area on a regular basis.  Heard something about the contents of the cars being juiced.

Fema would probably only need the cars a few months out of the year.  The rest of the time, they may be able to lease them to the Soylent Corporation.

  

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Posted by eagle1030 on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 8:02 AM

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BaltACD

tree68

I was looking at a model railroad supplier's catalog today and realized that there's another group of "white boxcars" on the railroads.  Instead of perforations for ventilation, they've got air conditioners, which would probably help keep the occupants cool enough that they would cause trouble. 

Not only that, but they're insulated, to they screams and moans won't be heard outside...

And a lot of them run between Florida and the New York area on a regular basis.  Heard something about the contents of the cars being juiced.

Fema would probably only need the cars a few months out of the year.  The rest of the time, they may be able to lease them to the Soylent Corporation.

Speaking of Soylent, maybe that's the explanation for those black and white tank cars?

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Posted by edblysard on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 8:23 AM

Shhhhh….they monitor this stuff you know.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 10:13 AM

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"...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!Tongue Tied

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!  Bow

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.

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:55 AM

edblysard

Shhhhh….they monitor this stuff you know.

I really hope that none of us gets pulled in by FEMA; it would be a sad event to know that one of us has been arrested for exposing the truth.

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:57 AM

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.

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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 12:24 PM

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! 

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 3:35 PM

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!Tongue Tied

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!  Bow

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.

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Posted by jeffhergert on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 4:39 PM

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?

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Posted by Geared Steam on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 6:41 PM

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!Tongue Tied

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!  Bow

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.

MischiefMischiefDevil

What makes the above scary is that not only do they vote - they breed!

Maybe a FEMA boxcar would be a better alternative? Laugh

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Posted by greyhounds on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:57 PM

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:

"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.

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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 9:11 AM

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.

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Posted by oltmannd on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 9:23 AM

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A new, sinister government?  Okay.  I am getting tired of our old, sinister government.

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Posted by oltmannd on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 9:26 AM

greyhounds
Farmington, 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?

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Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 10:19 AM

102,000? are there actually even that many real boxcars still in actual revenue service today? 

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 10:31 AM

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:

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….

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!

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Posted by Bonas on Friday, April 5, 2013 3:32 PM

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.

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Posted by John WR on Friday, April 5, 2013 7:05 PM

Bonas
Assuming that the Gov. wanted to round folks up...just think of the logisatial nightmare this would be.

Does our freedom depend on government incompetence?

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Posted by NittanyLion on Saturday, April 6, 2013 5:44 PM

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Bonas
Assuming 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.

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Posted by John WR on Saturday, April 6, 2013 7:50 PM

NittanyLion
Yes, actually.

[Our freedom depends on government incompentence].

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.  

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Posted by edblysard on Saturday, April 6, 2013 8:32 PM

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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Posted by cacole on Sunday, April 7, 2013 7:46 AM

102,000 boxcars -- where in the world are there enough tracks to store that many?

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Posted by zardoz on Sunday, April 7, 2013 9:08 AM

Considering how well FEMA has performed in the last few years (think Katrina and Sandy), I doubt we have too much to worry about.

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Posted by SALfan on Monday, April 8, 2013 8:36 PM

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.

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, April 8, 2013 10:45 PM

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.

Actually, Sandy didn't go all that badly, as I understand. 

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...

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