a-40k-author:

I don’t know but I hope something like this happens to their Primaris compliment;

kinghoagieofhoagiemountain:

kinghoagieofhoagiemountain:

Honestly one of the dumbest moves for American railroads was trying to compete with air travel rather than hit the people air travel misses.

Lemme explain, as the 40′s went on and air travel increased, most American railways would begin to face serious competition from air travel as more modern and faster planes like the Constellation and such began to make it cheaper to take a plane to big cities and over time the progression of air travel would make it more and more efficient there-of. 

Railroads would counter this in three basic ways. 1: The modernization of passenger traffic with more powerful and aerodynamic engines like all the streamliners I posted a few days back that would maximize speed to the highest degree possible. 2: The inclusion of massive rail line spanning express trains like the Broadway Limited, New England States, Pacific Express that would hit certain stops before flatlining the engine and going headlong to the next one as fast as possible. 3: The increasing comforts department of train coaches with things like skyliner coaches, more dining cars and more refined passenger coaches and so on that would theoretically increase passenger traffic and they did.

For a bit.

Jets began to take more and more caveats away as things like LearJets came around. That combo’d with the economic problems of the 1960′s and 70′s and the costs of making all those changes would end up totaling most of the classic railway marques like the PRR, New York Central, AT&SF, Northern, etc. Amtrak would come around due to this big crash and end up making a defacto monopoly on passenger traffic in the US which is why American railroads remain so stagnant because most of the rail lines are just monopolies. The entire US, all 50 states are under 6 major railroads.

6. And only one of those does regular passenger service and that is Amtrak. For reference, pretty much all of the East Coast from Maine to Georgia is serviced by one railroad for freight and one railroad for passengers. Norfolk Southern and Amtrak. And the problem is that both of those names rule full domain over the big classic rail lines of those ancient companies thus meaning a start up has to do the costly work of laying out the rails and ties and setting up connections before hand. If American rail wants to be anything more than a backdrop, these massive corporations have to be curtailed so something else can bud underneath. You can’t have competition when your race is 6 fat dudes sitting at the starting line refusing to move.

fresnel149:

riflebrass:

just-shower-thoughts:

CAPS LOCK has way too valuable keyboard real estate compared to how useful it is.

This only applies to me during GTA V because the game will flip out on me bouncing in and out of windowed mode whenever I turn caps lock on or off because my computer gives a little notification in the corner when I toggle it. I have no idea how to disable that.

Bungie taught me how important Capslock can be, way back in the day…