November 22, 2018 By James Mullin
I recently picked my nephew up from a suburban train station just outside Philly at 5:55 P.M. one evening. Reassuringly at five minutes to six, I saw a train coming toward the station, but then shooting past it. So I assumed this train was an express and the local train would be soon behind it. But then I noticed that the train I saw shoot past was actually stopped about a hundred yards past the station. Then, it started slowly, seemingly reluctantly, backing up into the station. When my nephew got off, I asked him what the conductor said about why it overshot. He was told that “leaves on the track” were causing trains to be unable to brake properly. I noted this explanation for future reference to myself to not cross any tracks in the months of October and November, while also pondering the absolute imbecility of the statement..........
In the socialist theatre-of-the-absurd that has overtaken our major cities in America, there could only be two reasonable explanations for said train missing its station by a hundred yards: 1) the engineer is high/on a cell phone/completely inept; or 2) the brakes don’t work. As one who often drives over train tracks, I must say I like explanation #1 much better, because #2 implies we are in an even worse mess. Failure to maintain equipment in a high-tech society is the bell-tolling-in-the-distance that push is coming to shove for us as a nation. ........ Read more
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