#freightcars

[ineffablejaymee]

something something, rex and bucky, something something

[karlstad]

magic chickens

[twosibold]

Lima 303546 Gedeckter Güterwagen mit Bremserbühne

[hanji-coffee]

I’ve decided I’m not insecure anymore. If I have to live with me, you have to live with me, thems the rules.

[ifuckingloveryoshu]

I said Id keep all murder on the warp express spoilers till 8/31 but. *BIG Spoilers FOR MURDER ON THE WARP TRAIN EXPRESS AND DISTORTION DETECTIVE*

I originally just wanted to make a horny post but here we are now, Don post. And keep in mind, all of this is speculation all hearsay and I have not read Don's book.

I might redesign and just redo my self insert oc for one if Bloodfeinds have a thing with masks and if the Pinky Finger has blood feinds? Its only heavy spectulation on my end given the scrapes and blood on the finer from Ryoshu's art. Unrelated but the mask make me thing about Jojo and the Pillar Men. Uhh, more speculation actually, maybe all Kindred in their culture, take the mantel of another role or face? For Don, its the valiant hero. With blood being part of their image, their goal is extending their influnce.

Go further, maybe the Mask and Rocinante can be related in the roles they want to play. The Barber was mentioned and I heard the original Don took the shaving thing used to collect hair from the barber and used it as a hat. I'm thinking for Casstti at least, the technology of that mask after getting enough blood would make him look all human.

From Distortion Detective Chapters 41 and 42 before they axed the series, here we have:

For context: Moses is talking to an older Bloodfeind in this fancy hotel because she wants Moses to murder her. For one, yeah they do feed on human but their not overtly evil? It's a hidden evil but tame for City standards. Elena was just a big exception but popular enough to give the whole species a bad reputation.

From Distortion Detective, we get the information that Bloodfeinds like keeping their numbers low.

There honestly must be cultural diffrences between blood feind populations of diffrent Districts. Don might actually be an Elder.

Also, it's not a new plot point with a bloodfeind who doesn't conciously know their a blood feind.

So does the Distortion inside bloodfeinds have to be awaken? I have no idea, but Rocinante seems to be Don's anchor.

When we meet another Bloodfeind, perhaps an elder one, it doesn't seem in the norm for Bloodfeinds in general to do giant blood bag and conversion things. This is a very hopeful reading of what can easily get retconed but my guess is Elder Bloodfeinds just drink a little bit and then normally let their victims go. But again, we never found out if this person was reliable or not because Project Moon discontinued Distortion Detective. Elena is an outliar among bloodfeinds and Casstti is put into a warp train as a blood feind, in an enviornment that gives as much blood as you want.

Wherever Casstti's from, he was running away to make his own 'kingdom' because where hes from was awful. He had no idea how the Warp Train would opperate. None of this was planned, everything was incidental.

My theory on the events: Cassetti hides in the freightcar to escape wherever he is from and hes been hiding there eversince to get enough blood to make his mask so he can blend in with the City residents, hide his bloodfeind features, maybe fuse with his mask. But, the bus woke him up and maybe he was spotted by the multi-armed fixers where he feels compelled to make Sasha a Kindred after her helplessness. Then our gang comes and fights him. Yeah. So many things to look forward to. And if the connection of the Barber in Don's story, a one off thing, Cassetti might be coming from P Corp. Two things i've just seen from Lob Corp's Shelter from the 27th of March and the Library Of Ruina Wiki:

We're off for a ride next Canto, that is certain. Thank you to anyone who decides to read this. If anyone else would love to build off this or correct me, that would be heavily appreciated.

[soundbord]

𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 — isla wardwell 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 — the railroad tracks

milo used to wait for freightcars to come chugging by and chase them, sometimes feeling bold enough to leap and lift himself into them. he wasn't going anywhere in the end, but it was nice to pretend. it was their idea to come to the tracks, to fantasize about getting the fuck out of here while they were still alive, disguised as a hangout. they were quiet; uncharacteristically quiet for milo, uncharacteristically unsettled for isla. something reminiscent of concern spiked not long after they'd arrived, and he, not having learned his lesson a bit, had placed his scarf on the ground for his friend to sit. he always knew he was too stupid to keep up with isla, but she never made him feel it. so, he leaned into that concern, confident enough to call it intuition for once. after the quiet was beginning to be unbearable, he broke out a persona saved for his siblings "sooo," his heavy leather boot swung lightly to the side, nudging her shoe "heard the whole story about the trail. that's fucking scary, i'd be freaked." anyone would. it's okay to be.

@g0dcountry

[phyrexian-lesbian]

Greetings and hello!

I'm replying to your post about the Holocaust. I'd imagine it's gotten some very unpleasant answers already, but I'm going to do my best not to be unpleasant. I'd much rather assume, and my impression is, that it was motivated by lack of knowledge, not malice or antisemitism.

I'm really most confused by the part of it that says Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, has “more kills” than Hitler. The Palestinian territories, have a population of roughly 5 million, 2 million in Gaza and 3 million in the West Bank if I remember right. Even with if we're thinking only of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, Netanyahu could preside over the killing of single Palestinian and that would still be a million less than were killed during the Holocaust. And that's putting aside 2 million Poles, millions of Soviets, and 3 million Soviet PoWs, among countless more. There were single months were more people were killed over the course of operation Reinhard than have died in Gaza since October 8th. And again, Hitler starved to death greater numbers of people than there are in Gaza. There were individual killing actions which had comparable death tolls to what we've seen in the past 8 months(particularly I'm thinking of Babyi Yar, outside of Kyiv). Even before the intense period of mass killing began in 1941, the Germans went into Poland in 1939 with a list of 61,000 people they intended to kill. I'm genuinely extremely curious as to where the idea that Netanyahu had killed more people from, though I don't expect you to share and make no demand that should do so.

Hitler oversaw genocides, with varying degrees of violence, against not only Jews but Roma, Sinti, the Soviet peoples, the Poles, the Serbs, the Czechs, the Luxembourgish, and that's an incomplete list.

I want to close off by telling you a bit about Treblinka. It was an extermination camp(in German, vernichtungslager, vernichtung can be translated either as extermination or annihilation), built in occupied Poland, near Warsaw. It began construction in Spring of 1942, and began operation on July 23rd. It was roughly 600×400 meters, including the train station, the living areas for the guards, the killing area, and a large amount of open space. It has three gas chambers, 4×4 meters each, connected to the train station and processing area by a curved path of barbed wire about 100 meters long which the Germans nicknamed “the path to heaven.” In the first five weeks of operation, it killed roughly 312,500 people. In the early stages, between 5000 and 7000 people were killed there each day. Later, this number would get as high as 15,000 in a day. One survivor recounted this:

‘When we reached Treblinka and the Germans opened the freightcar doors, the scene was ghastly. The cars were full of corpses. The bodies had been partially consumed by chlorine. The stench from the cars caused those still alive to choke. The Germans ordered everyone to disembark from the cars; those who could were half-dead.

On the way to the gas chambers, on both sides of the fence, stood Germans with dogs. The Germans beat the people with whips and iron bars so they would run and push to get into the "showers" quickly. The women's screams could be heard far off in other sections of the camp. The Germans urged the running victims on with yells of "Faster, faster, the water's getting cold and more people still need to shower.”’

Another recounted the following:

“The square where we sat was guarded on all sides. By a telephone pole were two notice boards. I read the announcements on them printed in large letters: “Jews of Warsaw, Attention.” These were primactions for people arriving at a labor camp; they were told to deposit their clothes for disinfection and were promised that money and valuables would returned. man arrived and selected am young men out of our group; he didn't want older men. A while later another SS man demanded sixty men; I was among that group. They marched us two by two through the square we had traversed when we left the freight cars, then to the right, to a larger square, where we were confronted by a staggering sight: a huge number of corpses, lying one next to the other. I estimate there were 20,000 corpses there. most of whom had suffocated in the freight cars. Their mouths remained open, as if they were gasping for another breath of air. Hundreds of meters away, a scoop-shovel dug large quantities of earth from the ditches. We saw a lot of Jews busy carrying the bodies to these huge ditches. Some of them transported the bodies in handcarts to the ditches at the edge of the square. These Jews did everything at a run. The bodies were laid in the ditches, row upon row. A group of laborers were pouring chlorine on the corpses. I should mention that those buried at this square were not gas-chamber victims, but rather the bodies removed from the transports and those who had been shot at Treblinka. Often we heard pistols shooting and bullets whistling. We didn't hear the screams of those shot; the Germans fired at the nape of the neck, and the victim never even moaned.

The German who brought us to work had the impression that one of the youths in our group was working sloppily. He took his rifle from his shoulder, and before the youth knew what was happening, he was no longer alive. A few minutes later the same thing happened with another Jew, shot by a Ukrainian, who took a packet of money from the man he shot. Within a short time, only ten men remained in our group. At night another transport arrived at the camp. We ran toward the cars. I was shocked. All the cars were filled only with the dead-asphyxiated. They were lying on top of one another in layers, up to the ceiling of the freight car. The sight was so awful, it is difficult to describe. I asked where the transport had come from; it turned our from Miedzyrzec. There was nowhere to place the corpses. Near the railroad tracks were large piles of clothing, and under these were still-unburied bodies. We laid the bodies in layers, near the railway. Occasionally, moans could be heard from under the piles of clothes as people recovered consciousness and asked in a weak voice for water. There was nothing we could do to help; we were dying of thirst ourselves. Those still alive were moved to the side, nearer to the clothes. It was dark, and the Germans didn't notice. Among those living I found a baby, a year or a year and a half old, who had woken up and was crying loudly. I left him by the side. In the morning he was dead. The next day, our first job was to remove the bodies of the people from Kielce from the barrack. Later we had to remove the bodies of people who had drowned in a well.”

Later a pit was dug near the train station, so deportees who couldn't walk to the gas chambers, the injured, disabled, or nearly dead, could be shot. Ten more gas chambers were also constructed, these ones were larger. One of the laborers forced to construct the new chambers recalled:

“The work of building the new chambers lasted five weeks. To us it seemed an eternity. The work went on from sunrise to sunset, under the whips and rifle butts. One of the guards, Woronikov, beat and maltreated us mercilessly. Every day a few workers were murdered. While our physical distress was far beyond normal human concepts, it was our morale that suffered even more. Every day new transports arrived; the deportees were ordered to strip, and then they were taken to the three old gas chambers. The way to the chambers passed near the construction site. Several of us discovered their children, wives, or relatives among the victims. If anyone was moved by his anguish to run to his family, they shot him on the spot. Thus we built the death chambers for ourselves and for our brothers.”

Over the course of its operation, which went on until October 1943, the extermination camp Treblinka murdered more than 700,000 people. Estimates range from 720,000 to just under a million people.

I hope I've managed to convey to you the degree to which the comparison is incorrect, repulsively so. No modern state, even Russia, which is currently waging a genocidal imperialist war of conquest which has earned it frequent comparisons to Hitler, is comparable to the Third Reich. In just 13 years, and really only during 6 of those years, it killed well over 10 million civilians, and countless more soldiers. In a single year, 1942, the Nazi state killed 2.7 million Jews. 2,700,000. I haven't heard an estimate for the death toll estimate regarding Palestinians murdered by the Israeli government which goes above 40,000. The comparison is not just incorrect, but horrifically so.

I decided against sending this anonymously, both because that would feel incorrect given the heaviness of the subject matter being discussed, and because I want you to be able to contact me if you want to. I'm more than willing to discuss this further, especially given my incredibly low opinion of the standard history education across basically the entire world. I hope you've found something valuable here, and that you'll reach out if there's anything you'd like me to clarify, or anything you want to further discuss. Hope you're doing well!

Very nice essay, and obviously well researched. I will admit I heard this a while ago and due to my ineffable autism have forgotten where I heard it. However! One genocide does not excuse another! I feel as though we have definitely established Hitler as the lowest form of human life, but that does not mean Israel gets to kill thousands of people- let alone one person. I don't need research to tell you that carpet bombing rafah after declaring it a safe place is, in fact, a war crime. I don't care about anyone's religion, race, gender, or anything- no one is entitled to a genocide or an apartheid state. And yes, the dictionary definition of a genocide is the systematic dehumanisation and eradication of a culture or people. Which is exactly what Israel is doing.

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

Precision Scheduled Railroading is a blight, (its not Precise or Scheduled, and its barely even Railroading) anyway the logistics of these trains are stupid because it takes them weeks to move a freightcar so millions of tons of freight spend like 2 weeks sitting in Yards around the country because they handle them so inefficiently because that way uses less manpower which means they can slash crews and raise their profit margins while destroying their railroad not to mention blocking passenger trains and grade crossings because theyve single tracked areas that used to be Double or Triple tracked, yeah its a fucking disaster

Fuck the Class Ones, and fuck their Billionaire owners

A story to boost the morale of a broken country.

[rayhaber]

ABD'li Şirket FCA, Meksika'da Vagon Üretimini Artırıyor

FreightCar America (FCA), ticaret risklerine ve ABD ile Meksika arasındaki artan ticaret engellerine rağmen, Meksika’daki üretim kapasitesini genişletmeye kararlı. Şirket, 2025 yılı için yıllık 6.000 vagon üretmeyi hedefliyor ve bu hedef doğrultusunda büyük bir büyüme ivmesi yakalamayı amaçlıyor. FCA, 2024 yılında Meksika’nın Castanos tesisinde 5.000 vagon üreterek %87 kapasiteyle çalıştı ve bu…

[fmarkets]

Fighting Back: Freightcar America Inc Shows Promising Signs of Progress in Recent Fiscal Period https://csimarket.com/stocks/news.php?code=RAIL&date=2023-11-07130127&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

[karlstad]

three from one d-boy freightcar

[twosibold]

Lima 303166 Gedeckter Güterwagen SBB

[gadgetsforusesblog]

FreightCar America appoints Nicholas J. Randall as COO by Investing.com

FreightCar America (RAIL) appoints Nicholas J. Randall as COO Truck America, Inc. (Nasdaq: RAIL) today announced the appointment of Nicholas J. Randall as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the company, effective June 26, 2023. Randall will report to James R. Meyer, President and Chief Executive Officer. “I am delighted to welcome Nick to the FreightCar America team as our Chief Operating Officer.…

[kcvulpinestudios]

A fun Photoshop experiment I did today. Full description on Flickr. Enjoy!!!

[wncrails]

GACX 10135 in Waynesville, NC, 1/15/21