Snek...

(Arguably, no pipeline? OK, we'll just carry this stuff down the rocky hillside, next to the curves of the river...)

...and excess rolling stock is parked all over the country including the Adirondacks and on a couple rail lines near here. On the same issue, they're compressing gas and trucking it over the road into NYS because the pipelines are being held up. I'm not a big fossil fuel guy but a rational distribution plan would be preferable.

We haul fuel.

Why?

Because we need a lot of fuel.

Why?

Because we haul a lot of fuel.

Wh--wait. Whut?

Canada...

Kinda Vader-y...

This Day In Choo Choo History
 

April 26, 1958

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue,

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one of the first major electric trains in the U.S., made its final run.

That's a Steam Engine.

Beautiful machine.

Uh, that's Bluetiful. :haha:

His last run...

I never thought of that dep't: In 1857, before time zones were invented, every town had its own time.

(Not in Britain, where a more civilized nation had Greenwich posting an agreed-upon time for everyone by 1852...)

It was the railroads that forced a common time to happen. Suddenly there was a need for everyone to understand the same time. The agreed-upon time used to be called "Railroad Time". But people agreed to call it Standard Time. And we still do.

http://cellar.org/2017/1857timezones.jpg

It's interesting which are the principle cities in the US, Toronto's inclusion implies a pretty porous border. With the trains running they probably didn't mess around with border checks.

Hell, in my time, driving through the border meant a 30 second stop to hear welcome to Canada.

When we crossed about a hundred years ago, the guy said "Ya got any guns, eh?"

We said "Uhh--"

He said "Welcome to Canadia, eh."

It wasn't that strict crossing back.