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02/14 – NEWS FLASH
Photo by Nick Nunziata.
What if a train derailment didn’t affect passengers? Even if they aren’t physically mauled by the derailing doesn’t ANY train derailment affect the passengers of another train?
“Hmmmm, that train flew off the tracks and into the woods. I’m on a train. There’s the woods buzzing by me at sixty miles an hour. I’m in a metal box hurtling through the world without a seatbelt on surrounded by poles and glass and pointy things. Good thing I’m on a train and not something unsafe like a train.”
What if the Amtrak train derailed? Would THAT affect them?
“I am figuratively and literally being shred alive by shrapnel and intrusive chunks of nature. I suppose Unbreakable wasn’t about me. Ow!”
Derailed trains affect us all, not just the traingoing public. It’s 2010 and large metal boxes are shooting around on rails. We should be riding Nutrient Beams across Sky Tubes whilst sipping Electric Jazz Juice, yet we’re having freight trains interfere with our already shoddy train journeys?
Yeah, we’re all affected.
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Electric Jazz Juice is On the Corner by Miles Davis flavored.
Uh, maybe you should read that headline again, Nick. It says "freight train" affects Amtrak passengers. There are no passengers on freight trains. They carry "freight". Passenger trains carry passengers. It obviously means that the derailment affected the other passenger trains that would be using the tracks after the freight train derailed and would cause delays. Just sayin'.
Uh, maybe you should try reading my article again, Ben. I make a point saying that ANY train derailing would affect folks on a train because of the similarity of their situation.Then, I say "What if the Amtrak train derailed? Would THAT affect them?".
Yep.
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