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]]>In the US, except for the northeast corridor (aka the former Pennsy and NYC lines), they don't own their own tracks, they lease... and the freight companies really don't want that extra expense.
As a comparison, during the first half of the 20th Century, the Pennsy and the NYC lines from the east to Chicago ran parallel, within a mile or two of each other, and the engineers would race the other train.
From wikipedia on the run of the Pennsy E-6 (steam) carrying the film of the Lindburgh arrival to NYC:
The train made it to the electric changeover at Manhattan Transfer with an average speed of 74 mph (119 km/h), a record never beaten by steam on that journey, with a reported maximum speed of 115 mph (185 km/h).But then, this was the creme de la creme of the passenger era.
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]]>The US SOSUS system exploited the deep sound channel and could achieve long range detections, particularly against the earlier generations of Soviet submarines, which were noisy. Soviet hydroacoustic systems, because of their hydrographic situation and the quietness of US submarines, did tend to be short range and operated as local barrier systems.
http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/Archives/issue_25/sosus.htm
]]>That's the only meaning of punk, aside from the pejorative one, that I ever encountered. Actually, both together: dry rotten wood used as tinder. (USA AZ middle C20)
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]]>Never have I ever heard of it being used to mean "semen". We put an S in front of it for that, and nobody ever confuses the four-letter word with the five-letter one.
]]>Like you really, really couldn't make this shit up, could you?
]]>I thought they needed to upgrade the lines to use in-cab signaling about 74mph? And signals/barriers at level crossings?
]]>We've had ample reasons since day one. The question is only when the cost of booting out an obviously corrupt and incompetent president is seen as less than the cost of breaking party unity. The far right is all about in-group cohesion and Us fighting against Them, so it's very hard to police the group against bad actors who are identified as insiders.
Although after Donald tweeted about telling secrets to the Russians I can't help imagining the ghost of Saint Reagan materializing in the Oval Office and starting in, "See here, young man, I know I explained this to you..."
]]>Also, it's beginning to look as though POTUS Pence would be better for the rest of the planet, as in instant-sunshine bursts not happening. It would be really bad for the people of the USSA, of course, especially if you are female, brown or want a clean environment. But that's fixable, down the line. Having bright lights all over the place would be worse.
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