I read an article that says Amtrak will begin using Reardon Metal for its rails in the northeast corridor. Taggart Transcontental has been using it for years, but no other railroad has so far.
What do you think of this?
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Posted by MPALMER (Member # 125) on :
Not familiar with Reardon or Taggart. Do they have political ties?
Posted by royaltrain (Member # 622) on :
Obviously Mr. Konstantin has been reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The hero capitalist, Henry Reardon, invented a metal harder than steel that was used by the heroine capitalist, Dagny Taggart, for a new line of her railway, Taggart Transcontinental. I do hope that no railway company would consider using Henry Reardon's fictional metal, after all Amtrak has enough problems running on real metal.
Posted by Konstantin (Member # 18) on :
I am glad to see that someone understood my comments posted on April Fool's Day. Thank you Royaltrain. Yes Mpalmer, there is political ties. The book is an interesting story about the government interfering by helping people who consume more than they are willing to produce.
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Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
Konstantin, the joke is on you since you apparently posted at 12.51pm - long after the noon deadline for April Fools!!!
Geoff M.
Posted by JeffDavis (Member # 1312) on :
I never heard of a noon deadline. Geoff m is just a poor sport.
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Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
*Grin* Maybe that's just a UK thing then. You have to do your April Fool by noon else you're the fool.
Geoff M.
Posted by Kairho (Member # 1567) on :
I would think it pretty much depends on what time zone the poster is in and what time zone the forum clock is in . . .
Posted by Konstantin (Member # 18) on :
I have not heard of the noon deadline either. I was just having some fun for April Fool's Day, and did not intend to offend anybody. Maybe I am the fool!
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Posted by MPALMER (Member # 125) on :
I did not know of any joke deadline either, but obviously did not catch the reference.
I expected to see more plausible jokes, such as Amtrak ordering "new" SDP40F's from some old blueprints located in a long forgotten file cabinet at headquarters, or maybe aquiring some retired cabooses from museums to help ease the space crunch...
Geoffm, it appears you are correct. Historically, the fooling was supposed to end by noon. In the United States, I don't think that is observed anymore. At least I, nor some others on this posting do not know of it. Unfortunately, many holidays and traditions lose some, or all of their meanings over time. Christmas to most Americans is now only a time of snowmen and Santa Claus, something that really annoys me, but that is another story.
Perhaps we should get back to the tradition of the fools to stop by noon.
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Posted by The Chief (Member # 2172) on :
mpalmer writes: Not familiar with Reardon or Taggart. Do they have political ties?