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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #25 on: April 02, 2020, 01:04:35 PM »

If you understood what kinds of people inhabit the Left, you wouldn't ask this question.

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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #26 on: April 02, 2020, 02:14:35 PM »
To be clear, he is train operator.  They still retain the "engineer" name even though they don't operate steam boilers anymore.  

I think in the New York subway system train drivers are called "conductors."
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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #27 on: April 02, 2020, 02:22:52 PM »
I think in the New York subway system train drivers are called "conductors."

Driver is called an operator, conductor opens the doors, so forth.

Electric train or trolley driver are called a motor man.

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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #28 on: April 02, 2020, 02:49:54 PM »
Nutters infect both sides of the aisle.


Is that a response to when I said there are no crazy people on our side?

When did I say that?
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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #29 on: April 02, 2020, 04:32:43 PM »
Nutters infect both sides of the aisle.

yOU LIe, YOUdaMNED commieLover !!!!!! !!!111

BTW, having ridden the NY subways for 4 years of high school in Brooklyn, and N>2 years at a job in Manhattan, the guy with his hand on the "throttle" was called the engineer or motorman.  In my experience, usually engineer, you damne d bunch of CoMMieLovers.  This may well have changed in the interim.

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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #30 on: April 02, 2020, 05:34:15 PM »
yOU LIe, YOUdaMNED commieLover !!!!!! !!!111

BTW, having ridden the NY subways for 4 years of high school in Brooklyn, and N>2 years at a job in Manhattan, the guy with his hand on the "throttle" was called the engineer or motorman.  In my experience, usually engineer, you damne d bunch of CoMMieLovers.  This may well have changed in the interim.

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I looked it up on the NYC MTA website, I was curious what they called them. I have one of the few electrified freight railroads in the world in my town, so I am familiar with the term motor man.
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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #31 on: April 03, 2020, 12:47:46 AM »
Ya know if California had ever gotten that high speed rail, our boy might have been able to get the job done.
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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #32 on: April 03, 2020, 07:48:43 AM »
Nothing to see here folks, he just went a little off the rails.
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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #33 on: April 03, 2020, 10:45:16 AM »
Nothing to see here folks, he just went a little off the rails.
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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #34 on: April 03, 2020, 01:11:57 PM »
Nothing to see here folks, he just went a little off the rails.
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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #35 on: April 03, 2020, 02:18:44 PM »
If he just had the foresight to put a little ramp on the end of the tracks he could have caught some wicked air and made it.
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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #36 on: April 03, 2020, 04:04:20 PM »
Gut feeling, do you see a liberal trying to ram a government owned hospital ship with a train?

I think that in cases like this it is best to assume "blue and orange morality", in that they are so disconnected from reality as we know it that we can't really connect it to any school of thought.

The dude suffered a psychotic break, we can leave it at that.

BTW, having ridden the NY subways for 4 years of high school in Brooklyn, and N>2 years at a job in Manhattan, the guy with his hand on the "throttle" was called the engineer or motorman.  In my experience, usually engineer, you damne d bunch of CoMMieLovers.  This may well have changed in the interim.

I'd tend to say that the point is that even though they're called "engineers" due to the legacy of the job, they don't require the education of an engineering degree, or even practical experience these days.  They're little different than a professional driver.


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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #37 on: April 03, 2020, 04:30:46 PM »
I think that in cases like this it is best to assume "blue and orange morality", in that they are so disconnected from reality as we know it that we can't really connect it to any school of thought.

The dude suffered a psychotic break, we can leave it at that.
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Re: Guy tries to 911 a Navy Hospital ship.....with a train!
« Reply #38 on: April 03, 2020, 08:29:45 PM »
 A misnomer "due to the legacy of the job" is a good way to put it, Firethorn.

 A tip of my hat to you.

I remember one "engineer" on the Elevated in Brooklyn seemingly trying to derail the train (20-30 feet above the street) on hitting one particular sharp curve in Brooklyn.  Cars rocked incredibly, scaring everyone on the train, including simpery wimpery 14 year old me.

I thought it was a fluke but a couple of days later the "engineer" did the same thing.  After that, I started to take alternative subway routes home.  I used to love the Ell because you could see stuff, buildings, long views of the city, etc. as opposed to the boring blackness of the subway tunnels.

I 'tested" it out the next semester and that "engineer" seems to have gone, since that curve was approached much more carefully after that.  I can't imagine nobody complained about that "engineer."

Saw a video* of a tragic deadly high speed on curve derailment a couple of years ago which powerfully reminded me of those adventures with a madcap "engineer" in Brooklyn.  

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*This one, if I captured the URL correctly:

https://media.gannett-cdn.com/media/963482463001/201307/1948/963482463001_2565651358001_98a2fb31-2fe4-4235-acb1-6b582855ce94.mp4
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