Have you seen them track laying machine. Hoo boy!
Have you seen them track laying machine. Hoo boy!
Oh, I remember that din. I lived next to the #1 subway line in Harlem for 22 years. All jointed rail and always one that wasn't joined evenly. Add those heavy subway cars of the 1960s-70s and some square wheels* and you had the mix for a sleepless night. Where we were, there was an elevated line and it was over a swamp (and fault line) with nowhere for the force of the cars to go but sideways. Oddly enough, I always knew when there was too much snow to go to work. I'd wake up at 3AM because the subway stopped running. Go figure.
*Square wheels were caused by an emergency stop or one emergency stop too often. The sound was a loud BANG!-BANG!-BANG! that went on and on.
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“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
Funny how no one considers that until it's too late
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For example, the 'pee out the window' thing from above. If you were parked in one of those auto transporters and suddenly found yourself having to pee, well, peeing out the window might be the only option you had. Not that 'they' are going to let that happen (you park in one of those rail cars, let alone stay in the car) in the first place.
"What kind of things have you thought about ... after it was too late?" Oh Charles, some of it would make you blush I'm certain! Others, like me signing up for this online associates degree, is a great example. Math has never been my strong suit, and in order to earn the degree one has to pass a certain level of proficiency in math. Of course, after enrolling and accumulating several thousand dollars of school debt, I've now come to realize that maybe I feel I don't have what it takes to finish this thing after all and now saddled with this debt, do I quit at this point and just eat it or get everything but the math and still lose out.
Stuff like that. Heavy on my mind as I kill myself trying to comprehend pre-algebra enough for the final in a week
I'm fucked
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LOL yep... :) I remember that well. Talk about noise, when I was living in East New York Brooklyn I used to feel a bit sorry for those folks that lived right next to the structure (the el) where the J and Z trains pass through the infamous S curve between Cypress Hills and Crescent Street. It a 10 mph timer enforced speed restriction along the whole distance and damned those trains SCREECH loud and long as they negotiate those curves. As a kid it was deafening when I was in my parents car or walking underneath that section of the el. People who lived in the apartments adjacent told me you never get used to that sound nor do you ever forget it.
Train horns bother me a little bit. Around here when I start hearing train horns it means that the morning rush is just getting underway and it means hat within a short time I have to get up and out. Maybe when I retire and if I live near a freight line I'll get to liking train horns again,
Actually I wouldn't mind living next to an elevated subway line. The #2 ran past behind my Grandpa's house in the So. Bronx. In some ways I miss that distinctive sound of a train roaring along on the structure.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.