It betrays a lack of theory of mind, likely indicating they’re below a fuzzy sort of threshold below which you don’t have the cognitive bandwidth to imagine a perspective beyond your own.

There’s a huge variety. Grinding trains usually travel at around 15-30km/h (depending on what model of grinder, how badly the rails need to be ground) and it looks like what Hollywood thinks an emergency brake application looks like

Track POV of a grinding train

They usually have a water tender at the end with a water cannon to spray down fires started by the grinding train itself.

Railway ballast cleaning to remove fines and tamp

This level of cleaning is expensive… Normal freight lines don’t need this level of replacement except maybe every 10-20 years. But they do need their ballast tamped every so often to make sure you compact voids and re-lock ballast together.

Sleeper replacement

Yeah by a long shot. Railroads spend 1-3% of the capital cost on maintenance. So if it cost $3 million to build a km of track they spend roughly $30-90k/year. It might not look like it since tracks are just kind of always “there” but there is a decent amount of work you need to do pretty much constantly.

The stones underneath the tracks and sleepers is called ballast and it needs to be rough, angular rock of a certain size. It’s an engineered fill material that’s designed to lock together and hold the rails in place. Every train that passes by does a couple of things at once. It cyclically loads the ballast and breaks down those sharp edges that lock it together. At the same time the force of the wheels on the rails contributes to fatigue causing microcracks to form on the rail surface.

If you leave rails unmaintained long enough (by gross tonnage BTW. Rail can last a long time if it’s hardly used at all) the track will start pumping, where it compresses and expands as each axle passes over it. You’ll start lifting the subsoil up into the ballast ruining its ability to hold the track in alignment even more. Also, microcracks can combine enough that the railhead begins spalling and eventually the cracks can combine enough that the rail itself can fracture well before it’s service life tonnage.

To fix this you have to tamp ballast every X number of tons, grind the railhead every Y tons, and replace the ballast every Z tons .etc

Basically every part of the permanent way is some kind of wear item that needs maintenance. Mind you, only mainline track needs to be perfect. As long as speed limits are low enough along with an inspection, you can run on degraded secondary rails or spurs safely. It just wears it out even faster.

An American rail section that last saw maintenance when reagan was elected

It’s like carcinization, the tendency for everything to evolve into a crab body plan.

Railinization? The tendency for every hare brained tech idea that touches transportation to evolve into railroads?

The issue is you need to grind the tracks multiple times a year on busy routes, along with ballast tamping or replacement. That’s set by total gross tonnage not by a set time span, and these maintenance items are not optional. Tamping prevents pumping and rail fatigue which can be catastrophic if you allow it to degrade and suddenly fail. Rail grinding removes microcracks created by fatigue due to every wheel passing over it. Grinding deletes the cracks, but if you leave it for too long the cracks grow and can total the rail. 10 minutes per panel is a long time when you need to maintain tens of thousands of kms of track.

Even a short distance between two towns is a maintenance headache. It could take weeks to remove the panels entirely and that’s before you get started doing maintenance at all… All you’ve accomplished is removing a maintenance obstacle you put there in the first place. Then you have to put it all back when you’re done…

A railroad typically spends 1-3% of the entire cost to build a km of track just to maintain it every year. That’s a big operating cost that eats into rail budgets already (part of why I believe they should all be nationalized to better align public incentives with a natural monopoly but that’s beyond this conversation.)

For reference, most rail costs around $1-3 million per km to build, $5-10 million or more within urban areas due to land acquisition. Typical railroad maintenance is somewhere around $10 000-$30 000 per km per year with unrestricted access. 20 mins round trip per panel (probably half an hour with deadtime between panels moving tools and gear) that’s a massive amount of increased costs and more importantly service interruption. You can’t pass revenue traffic when they’re doing this.

I’m guessing that the picture in the OOP article is standard gauge at 1435mm, so I figure each panel is roughly 2m long? 500 panels per km roughly? 5000 minutes to remove, let’s say 15 min to be more realistic on pace, so 7500 minutes. That’s 125 person-hours per km to remove panels. Maybe a team of 2-6 and a backhoe on track wheels? At an average wage of $60/hr for a team of 2 people that should cost $7500 just to remove panels from 1km of track and it would take 5.2 days of labour, at 8 hour shifts that’s 15.625 days of labour, let’s say 16 days. 2 weeks and 2 days at $7500 and you have to do it all over again to put them back in place. You would need to do that at least once a year, probably multiple times though.

I’m also accounting for the cost of machinery in the wage number. Maybe it would be closer to $40-50? But I’ve also always heard to take the wage paid to a worker and triple it for the true total cost once everything is considered (unemployment, health and safety, tickets .etc) so the total bill for round tripping panels off and on could cost almost as much as normal maintenance on the permanent way?

I’m interested to see how it impacts maintenance for the permanent way. I don’t think it helps at all… Reballasting, tamping, changing sleepers, railhead grinding .etc all need to go places where these panels are, so now you have to remove them, do your maintenance, and put them back?

Instead they just put it in a place where they have to be disconnected and removed to reballast or tamp the permanent way, or for railhead grinding, or for sleeper replacement, or for any maintenance task that needs access between the tracks…

I would argue the reason modern media sucks so bad is because of min max writing by focus group in pursuit of a test-tube blockbuster. Any originality or risk taking is a no-go so you write for the lowest common denominator and do reboots and remakes. Brand new stuff has to happen using existing IPs that are already popular.

It’s different from just being collaborative or testing ideas on your intended audience. It’s closer to how companies make dog food than the creative process for making good entertainment or art…

This game is going to be nothing like past grand theft autos. All the people who made the prior games are gone, and now they write by focus group and committee… I think it’s probably going to suck.

When you compare it to the labour participation rate population of the US the number is almost 1% of the work force. 99 people have normal jobs and 1 of them is a modern slave.

YOUNG PEOPLE ARENT HAVING RELATIONSHIPS OR KIDS BECAUSE OF AVACADO TOAST AND LAZINESS

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It sounds like it’s almost ready sweaty 🥰😘 just give it a few more weeks in direct sunlight during this heat dome and it’ll be perfect 😍🎉🥳

Does anyone have the picture without text of just the cat and dinner?

I’ve honestly been using Claude or chatgpt for it and specifically asking for sources. But as they get more desperate for money they’re going to start to have paid sponsorships…

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Oh no sweaty… Did you ferment it for long enough? It should make your 15 cats gag when you open the bottle

Have you tried blending them with fermented piss instead of water? It might also help to drip aged urine in your eyes to detoxify your body.

/s if it wasn’t blatantly obvious