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Is the current paint job original from the NKP? Or is it a museum paint from some years back?

Hold on there. If this was legit, shouldn't they also have tested a brand new car seat (similar model) under the same conditions? Shouldn't they have shown "before" pictures of this car seat showing how you couldn't tell it was gonna break? Shouldn't we have seen "after" photos of exactly wha...

It's a good thing. It fixes an important part of containment. Open a door on a (nonbroken) nuke, air blows inward. A big fan is pulling all the air in the buildings to a scrubber house, which filters out the airborne radiation and sends the cleaned air up a smokestack. That's what the smokest...

wide girl is wide

@bismarck LOL! dumbbuff is not kidding, There are 103 preserved.

Google " electric cars roster". Pick "Erie Lackawanna" out of "previously owned by". You'll get the list, 31 motors, 72 trailers.

The trailers look just like coaches. The motors look a little weird but tourist lines used ...

War is a total lose, UNLESS, you contemplate the cost of NOT fighting it. We could have avoided war in 1991, 1941, 1861 and 1776. And then--?

As for public works projects, it really depends. Our parents got robbed for banana split money so they could build the freeway system.

The 'advantage' if you could call it that, is that maglev track is completely incompatible with everything. It cannot use existing rails into downtown terminals, hence it cannot get delayed by other trains. It cannot possibly have a highway crossing or run in the street, so it cannot be delayed...

@jesdot2440 Peak electrical demand is 3-6pm on the hottest weekdays of the year because industry and retail are running, and people's home A/C just clicked on. All other times there's surplus generating capacity, especially at night. Two government studies confirmed there's plenty of surplus t...

@BuffaloChipSucks1 OK, suppose he moves all the electric gear to a 3rd-gen Camaro. which we know for a fact was built in America because the paint came off in sheets after 5 years. Would you still be rippin on him?

@metraF40PH163 Sheer luck you happened to catch it the one week the rail was out. (maybe 10 days I don't recall). It was soon thereafter replaced. Last week the crossing got a complete rebuild with welded rail.

@805031 That's an ugly fate. Most Alcos and Baldwins on freight shortlines get scrapped in secret. If you're very lucky, you get a week's notice to raise some profiteer's crazy asking price.

A museum's mission is to collect, preserve and teach. I agree it's a shame that most museums take so lo...

@TheMrBlinx They probably got out, and the train punted the jeep right into them. happens all the time, often with people who got out in plenty of time and are standing there watching the impending collision.

@robeconrad What facts? There are no facts. That's the entire point. Airplanes have not been thoroughly tested for the effects of radiation from consumer devices. What we do know is that there's a LOT of radiation. The lowest TEMPEST standard calls for shielding so an eavesdropper 100 METER...

Oh wow... the putt-putt, the extra-loud, the two-gear shifter. Sounds like a Fairmont ST-2. Nice machine. Nice railroad too.