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catenary-chad · 19 days ago

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Looks like this had a pretty good spread, I’ll do a post eventually about him vs 20th/21st century US freight railroad politics. Probably have different sections for really basic stuff (longass trains and diesel everything ), current and historic issues that are relevant to the show (or could be interesting to incorporate), and maybe some more specific thoughts/headcanons about Greaseball (like how being unable to go backwards is an underrated Achille’s Heel for him, or the concept of him being one of the heritage fleet E9s often used to pull corporate trains)

Pure curiosity, how much do you know about modern day US freight railroads? I could do a post on how Greaseball is a great parody of them (both in the 80s and now) but I have no clue what level of knowledge people have of them and if that would be useful or not.

#19th century stuff is a WHOLE NOTHER cans of worms especially with western railroads but that’s pretty far removed from what’s in the show #revisionist western train musical is uhhh… a concept i guess but issues that dark in a medium that silly isn’t a great fit #but I mostly just really want to give a better picture of how UP really is because whew the heritage fleet propaganda goes hard #meanwhile they’re often considered the worst of the major railroads especially on the employee side #(to be fair they DO have the best heritage unit paintjobs)

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