Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer
The best part of a low IQ public is that you can tell them anything and they’ll believe it.
For those of you who believed the NIST report on WTC-7, I give you the melty rail narrative.
“US Not Prepared”: Extreme Heat Event Risks Damaging US’ Rail Network With Buckling Tracks
A large swath of the US, including at least two dozen states, are under heat advisories or warnings to end the week as a heat wave pushes east. There are concerns extreme heat could risk straining rail networks.
Earlier this month, Amtrak service between New York and Philadelphia encountered delays due to “heat-related” speed restrictions. Those restrictions could return as temperatures in the Northeast are expected to print near triple-digit territory through the weekend.
Brutal temperatures could buckle tracks and result in passenger and freight rail delays, similar to what’s happening in London as Network Rail told passengers earlier this week not to travel by train.
Paul Chinowsky, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, told Bloomberg that “the US is not prepared” for extreme heat and damage it could inflict on rails.
“While the rail system is incrementally being improved, there is significant work to do, and what is being done is not being done fast enough,” Chinowsky said.
The weight and speed of passenger or freight trains are a deadly combination for railroads baking in the sweltering heat. The United States’ railways are mostly made of steel, and with higher temperatures, steel expands and softens. That’s especially true in the Northeast and Southwest, where tracks were not built to withstand or adjust to triple-digit temperatures given the more mild climates, said Chinowsky.
“When it gets significantly hotter, like it is now, it gets soft, and you run a rail car over that, you get what are called sun kinks,” he said. “It’s essentially a deformation [and] the rails just buckle.”
“You can even think of it as a person standing on sand,” Chinowsky said. “When you run on sand, or you put something really heavy on sand, it pushes that sand away from you; the same thing is happening to the rail.”
In June, a train in Concord, California, derailed due to a curve that emerged in the track during an extreme heat event.
A massive heat dome lingering in the US could be troubling for the freight industry for the next five days. The latest figures show that 28% of US freight moves by rail. And if heat-related restrictions were implemented, it would cause even more bottlenecks for supply chains.
Francesco Lanza Di Scalea, a professor of structural engineering at the University of California San Diego, calls for a ‘blood pressure-like monitor’ monitoring system on rail networks to track rail conditions in extreme weather events.
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Strange. Been jogging on a school track outside in TX heat, with others, while seeing kids practice their sports too. While the heat is no fun, no one has “buckled” yet. Pretty sure human flesh is softer than steel.
Let’s see, beet red face, limp hair from the humidity, drenched in sweat, struggling to breathe…not a chance! 😂 Meanwhile the natives are all unaffected.
Sad is exactly what it is. It’s a pathetic sight to behold.
Daughter of an Outlaw – very true. 🙂 Love it.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=warm+winds+blowing+heat+and+blue+skies&oq=warm+winds+blowing&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j69i57j0i512j0i22i30i457j0i22i30.13247j0j7&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:5a45af59,vid:Nn2HezSTeEs,st:0
You go , Queenie.
Thank you, flash. You are a fast learner. Impressive.
I miss rednecks.
There are a few Texans that just might be acclimated to what “July in Texas” is….
Sooooo ….. no one has ever died of heat stroke??
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Human bodies are able to REGULATE/MANAGE body temperature. Human flesh is soft and pliable, steel is not. These things matter.
Why resort to such a ridicules comparison?
Point is that it is all bullshit. You know that, Stucky.
Actually, I do NOT know that. I am not a metallurgist.
But, I do know heat affects materials. I know that parking my Capri in the heat of the Mojave Desert cracked my dashboard in several places … when the car was virtually brand new. Heat will destroy electronics. High temperatures can cause damage to machinery … hoses and O-rings become brittle and crack … cracks become leaks and leaks become an expensive nightmare. So, at a minimum, it does not seem unreasonable that excessive heat affects rails.
Lastly, what BENEFIT is there to anyone in lying about heat-caused rail damage?? Can you answer that without resorting to some conspiracy?
They’re constantly looking for excuses for supply-chain problems. I’m not a metallurgist either, but I have common sense. Just like I’m not a doctor, but knew all the covid & vax insanity was BS…FROM DAY ONE.
You’re telling me that due to summer weather, the rails are in danger of melting?? I just simply don’t believe it. It’s been hot before and I’ve never heard about this problem.
If this story stood alone without all the other BS we’ve been through, then maybe I’d consider it legit & look into it further.
I’m not relying on any advanced knowledge, just common sense & gut feeling.
Prove me wrong if you’d like.
I said no such thing!!
The discussion is about excessive heat DISTORTING steel … to the point that it becomes unsafe.
I believe excessive heat can distort steel. I don’t believe it is excessive enough though. I just drove through the country and didn’t experience any temperatures that felt dangerous. TX is the hottest of any place I’ve been recently, and we’re just fine. Trains are running, my car is running, I’m running…no problems whatsoever.
Heat causes metal to expand, and cold causes it to contract. We have known this for thousands of years. The engineers who build the fist railroads across the west knew what would happen in the deserts of Arizona and CA back then and engineered the tracks to compensate. The combination of proper engineering, construction, and inspections are more than adequate to prevent failures.
The problem is not the heat, it is we have incompetent people managing, and maintaining railroads along with upper management who want to increase profits by underpaying / under-staffing workers and cutting maintenance to the bone, and then blame the consequences on the weather.
If corporate officers were able to be criminally prosecuted for their crimes, you would see a huge drop in deaths and injuries due to corporate criminality.
Question “At what temperature do steel train tracks buckle?” One of many articles from scholar.google-http://kssc.or.kr/wonmun/KSSC_3_2008_8_3_171(C).pdf
A simple fact check and you find: “At what temperature does steel lose all of its capacity? The strength of steel remains essentially unchanged until about 600°F.”
Where in this heat wave (summer) are rails hitting 600+ degrees?
except in certain buildings in new york!
All that “special” steel from the WTC was melted down and reused. Unfortunately its special properties infected all the worlds steel, so it now acts differently…… yup, that has to be it.
Steel doesn’t break down but, like most things that get hot, expands. It is for this very reason that we can not ever have a hyperloop from LA to San Francisco like Musk promised. Engineers have known this is a problem with rail since we put down our first tracks and the expansion and contraction of the steel is taken into account.
When the steel wants to expand but has nowhere to go because of crappy engineering, it buckles.
It’s not just heat; it’s heat plus pressure.
Well of course because all that matters is the ‘feels like’ temps
and especially to some big mac and diet coke eating land whales, the ‘feels like’ temperature is probably 200 degrees or something?
i always thought the ‘feels like’ sort of thing was a gimmick for retarded people that told more about what those publishing such nonsense thought of the rest of us.
Wind Chill/Heat Index are examples for the “feewings” children.
Because actual temperatures don’t scare the sheep.
Exactly
Does steel feel the humidity combined with the heat?
Sure. Just like steel wilts and bursts into flames when you throw kerosene (aka jet fuel) on it and light it on fire.
And you remember what CONCRETE does when that happens. Why, it just turns into DUST!!!
But Muslim passports are still indestructible.
Well, muzzies come from the pit of hell so it is conceivable that their passports are burn proof.
A California driver’s license is equally indestructible and capable of multiplying.
No, but it does feel radiant heat out the wazoo.
The heat will cause problems as does extreme cold.
I hate that feels like crap. Feelings are relative. Feels like has replaced reporting on the actual wind speed, which is a big part of the weather. So now people try to tell me it’s going to be 125° outside today or 58° below zero today because of “feels like.” They don’t seem to realize that feels like is not the actual temperature.
It must be hell for the railroads around the Sahara Desert every day. I never knew that if I left my car out in the sun on a hot day the steel fenders would warp and melt. I must of been lucky so far.
India is one giant railroad. 43,000 miles of track,
4th longest in the world.
And it is blisteringly hot in India all the time.
There is no lie too big that the sheep won’t believe it.
Witness the last 3 years.
wouldnt have anything to do with corners cut in maintenance for years and years, nahhhhh impossible!
this whole modern machine civilization is making itself so over the top ridiculous that future generations will deliberately destroy any remaining reminders of it just to try to wipe away the lingering taste of stupid.
when the hellenistic civilization of classical antiquity collapsed in western europe, the people there continued to idealize and dream about it for fifteen centuries. they continued to strive to restore it for fifteen centuries. they considered everything after its collapse to be an endless decay and decline.
when this machine civilization collapses it will be rightly cursed as a blight of evil finally removed from the earth.
I’m a farmer/rancher and machines are great but liberalism is death.
No doubt. There are just to many people. All that body heat is being transferred to the stratosphere which oscillates into the north and south poles melting the ice which make the ocean colder producing more snow in the Amazon rain forest which pushes all the hot air into mid latitudes thus making it hotter and melting the train tracks into funny shapes and sizes which causes them to wreck off the tracks and when that happens people cant get coal or food so people starve to death and die of heat exposure because they don’t have power for AC. So what I,m saying is lots of people are gonna die and nothing to worry about. This problem will fix itself.
Follow the Money has always been sage advice. $cience tends to chase the money.
Trains aren’t real. Have you ever seen a train? They’re actually buses they blindfold you and put you on to keep up their efficient and cheap transportation lie to prop up the taking rail shipping industry so people ship stuff via and boat instead of planes.
I grew up in SW OK and we had 100 degree days or greater from late May through early September. I do not remember ever seeing melted train tracks. I have seen asphalt getting a little soft under the blazing sun and if you do not have a good solid road bed, the highway will deteriorate quickly.
Helps spread the lie when the photo you attach to the story is of a rail line “warped” by a recent earthquake.
It can even be very subtle (New Zealand earthquake)
Soon they will be known as “temperatures that have sex with other temperatures”.
…and give birth!
There’s always a conflict of interest lurking, isn’t there?
from a google search. Google will probably be changing this soon to fit their narrative.
Those trains are just too big, they should be smaller, lighter and maybe solar or wind powered
Hamster powered for the win. They also make a great snack when served Peruvian style.
Wind powered so the faster they go, the more power they will produce. If they install a bunch of batteries, they can sell the excess power on the grid.
Electric fans would get the windmills going again….
Is this how far science and technology have advanced? No, We are, instead, going backwards.
Considering railroads and steel are 19th century technologies and we are two centuries from the implementation of the practical use of them, obviously the government, scientists, engineers, technologists and railroad companies plus all the other people involved with it are fucking idiots and retards. That is the only conceivable answer to this conundrum of steel rails in the third decade of the 21st century that are warping and getting soft in the heat of summer.
Auntie suspect a similar situation has been encountered in the USSA space program. The folks just plumb forgot how to send people to the moon. Half a century later. Yeah, right.
Just fucking unbelievable.
As there is no way that an aluminum space capsule will protect you from deadly Van Allen Belt radiation, that’s why NASA “forgot” how.
NASA = Never A Straight Answer
Correction: N0t A Space Agency
Yeah sure, they obviously use different steel for rails in the desert. Honestly, how stupid is the average reader of this garbage that this would seem remotely believable? The creation and maintenance of railway tracks has been the same for many decades and does not change one whit whether in Alaska or Arizona. This is just offensively stupid.
It is however consistent with every other part of the plan to normalize and desensitize the masses to the ongoing destruction of the US economy.
Many people have foretold the move from Covid to climate change to maintain the suppression of the economy.
It’s all planned and they continue in their attempt to dispatch us useless eaters. Unfortunately, this is only the beginning. The niceties of articles like this to assuage the masses will soon be gone and they won’t be hiding anything. That’s when the fun really begins. When they drop all the stupid pretense.
Note that the push for a digital ID in the US has begun.
This won’t end well.
I worked for the FEC RR in Miami in the Summer and it was hot enough for this redneck but we never experienced any heat problems; there is a gap between rails (about a quarter inch) and slip plates and electric cables bolt segments together. If us rednecks can run a RR in the heat, I suppose Yankees can learn how eventually.
The definition of serendipity.
Pay no attention to narrative. Focus like a laser on outcomes.
When did it change that RR employees could strike? Back in the ’60s my father told me that they couldn’t. BTW, he retired as Chief Administrator & Budget Director of the US RR Retirement Board.
WTF, Lamont? RR invented labor strikes in this country, practically. The RR have been fucking their employees over in a majorly royal way for years (that hasn’t been seen in over hundred years) and if they can’t strike then what is the point?
If you want to tell me the south couldn’t voluntarily secede, I will fight you.
The strikes were so bad that an agreement was reached during WW1 from what I recall him telling me.
Yes, we should be allowed to leave. The Yankee War decimated our family “farms”, one in SC where we came from & ours in AL. Most of our assets starved to death by 1865.
Sherman’s Army torn my Grandmother’s Grandparent’s house and barn down and stole every ounce of food they had; her Grandfather starved to death as a result. Fuck the Union.
I Second that motion.
There are all kinds of strikes , protests, and threatened strikes of common folks trying to make a stand and the American media ignores them just like all of the other protests around the globe. They are not even close to my backyard, so how can I support them?
This is really nefarious how they compartmentalized, specialized, regionalized, and now it is trivial to deconstruct our country piecemeal.
“Southwest, where tracks were not built to withstand or adjust to triple-digit temperatures given the more mild climates, said Chinowsky.”
So we don’t get triple digit temps here in Texas every fucking year? Really? Fucktard.
Anyone who ever paid to have a class taught by this asshat needs to get a refund. Most of these dipshits have never worked a real job. We only had 2 profs in my ME dept that had ever worked in industry. Classes taught by them were always in demand and full. The rest were all academics.
they all have expansion joints too…
“The United States’ railways are mostly made of steel, and with higher temperatures, steel expands and softens. That’s especially true in the Northeast and Southwest, where tracks were not built to withstand or adjust to triple-digit temperatures given the more mild climates, said Chinowsky.”
Ahem…… BS!
Not only are the standards for railway grade steel far in excess of what is required for normal thermal expansion events, those standards are federal, i.e. same in Alaska as in Texas. Additionally, although railway steel can absorb heat from the atmosphere and directly from sunlight, the resulting temperatures within the steel from weather come nowhere close to “softening” them, even under the additional stress from the mass of moving railcars that can flatten a penny placed on the tracks.
I worked on a few jobs where track panel replacements were required. You know how the joints are welded? With thermite:
4,500 degrees F for most applications up to 5,600 F maximum.
Hot stuff!
Ahhhhh…. Thermite, a little goes a long way. Through. fun memories.
So does the government now stop all train traffic so they can’t derail or do they start derailing them?
Bofe.
They think we are stupid. The problem is that they are largely right.
That’s mostly true. I always have respected you, Mountainrat.
Chinowski/Bloomberg…
{{They}} are trolling you. Ave. temp ranges have not changed significantly in the US since the first rails were laid. It’s simply another fear-porn post to make us afraid of long distance travel. OMFG the WEATHER… (NB, not the climate).
The NIST report on WTC B7, highlighting the fact that the steel in modern buildings cannot melt in an avgas fire, but rather requires the thermite implants (evidence in the report) in order to fail structurally.
What may be happening with the rails is simply deferred maintenance. Ties are secured with spikes in a bed of gravel that is designed to move a little with the passage of trains. Shit wears out and needs to be replaced. Lockdowns and totalitarianism tend to put maintenance at the end of the list, so shit doesn’t get fixed.
Melty rails: gaslighting
Thermite: Fact
Best steel joke since George of the Jungle yelled to the Commissioner, “Steel tracks!” “Yes, George , I know what they’re made of”…then crash!!!
Dr Chicago, the mad dentist from Illinois, had stolen the tracks. George laughed and said, “George make funny pun!”
Heat is taking a toll on equipment because it is sustained triple digits in the south, but talking to old hands this happens often enough that it should be factored into anyone’s management plans. It is just an exceptionally hot summer. They happen.
I used to manage equipment technicians and they had to be extra careful when working in the hot sun and the temperatures of the metal they had to sit/lay/lean/hang off of. Machines tend to not break down under the shed or in the shop. Saw mills are hard on equipment because the saw dust tends to be tacky and sticks in the fins of the radiators. Lots of radiator washing is required.
This one of the many reasons I like this place.
I learn a great deal outside my sphere.
Yes, a lot of knowledge is shared on the Platform that Burns.
I try to share what I know here too.
I have varied skill sets and experiences.
I try to add something I know much about when I can.
This place is like a graduate class in things no one will ever teach you in a structured place.
So, in Colorado (and anywhere else) when the elevation increases another 1,000 feet the air has 3% less oxygen content, which is why some people have a hard time breathing-especially if you are going over a mountain pass at 11,000 feet elevation. Less well understood, but because of less oxygen with altitude increase there is less effective cooling that takes place for things like air cooled engines.
Not exactly.
napa know how
The lower oxygen affects combustion, but not cooling.
The altitude affects cooling, because the air (cooling medium) is thinner and less efficient at transferring heat.
I have always inclined towards the path of finding the smartest person in every room and sticking close to them for as long as you can. Over time the information you accrue free of charge winds up in your databank for future use.
Even the self identified Christian professors in the hard sciences are so compromised by fear of the administration and fear of the grant givers, they may as well be Satanists themselves. People will compromise and rationalize everything that is true, good, and beautiful just to save themselves hardships. They would rather pass them on to their children, I guess.
Not many people in the USA want to work. The civilization is so corrupt that it is difficult to extract monetary value out of hard work.
I have an essay in mind exploring the thought experiment of a moral society and a closed society, and I want to look to the Amish types to see the strengths and weaknesses of the principles I think I know.
“People will compromise and rationalize everything that is true, good, and beautiful just to save themselves hardships.”
So true. I remember a message during a worship service where the speaker said, “You weren’t placed here to be comfortable, get over it!”
I think that many among us need to hear that often until it actually registers.
I think you’ll find the Amish greatest strength to be intolerance in their tribe concerning compromise of doctrine and culture.
I just woke up to deal with a headache. I have been thinking about the Amish a lot lately.
Best Field commander of the modern age.
Patton never lost a battle to him.
Patton was the best tactical general in the entire war.
Perhaps the best in human history.
He was convinced he was a general in Alexander’s army via re-incarnation.
He might have been.
Why Eisenhower relieved him and why he was assassinated.
A man like that who is a true patriot is a threat to every globalist plan.
He wanted to re-arm the Germans and turn them on the Soviet communists.
That would have ruined all the Rothchild/MIC plans for endless war and conflict.
Just like we have now.
Only N. B. Forrest might have been better. The entire north feared that man.
“Get there firstest with the mostest.”
– Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, C.S.A.
Immense respect and pride for this daring, most excellent, military leader.
Legend of cavalry and other military maneuvers, good sirs and madams.
Auntie- Part of my currency collection is a ten dollar denomination obsolete hand signed by N.B. Forrest. The note is a rare Selma Marion and Memphis Railroad Obsolete., N.B. Forrest was owner and president of said RR. At one time I had another note with his signature but sold it at auction. Wonder if his RR ever had the rails melt?
the hottest surface temperature on record is 201 F at furnace creek station death valley. the melting point of steel is 2200-2500 F. so less than 1/10th “softens” steel? i doubt that.
Along the ‘highline’ (as the Union Pacific calls it), the locomotives are pulling trains upwards of 1.5 miles long — utilizing at least 2 locomotives that each weigh in excess of 400,000 pounds — at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. — and those freight cars can weigh upwards of 125,000 each fully loaded (GVWR) …
So … do the math … or, rather, the physics … and that will explain why there is such an enormous amount of track maintenance — especially on curves — throughout many parts of the UP system.
The same goes for the BNSF …
Also CSX in the east with two mile long/two unit coal trains with four locomotives, two up front and two in the middle. The track maintenance outfit is a wonder to behold. More than 20 specialized units, each with its own task.
I asked a CSX employee how they compensated for expansion of the rails in hot weather. He said the rails, which were 1/4 mile long and thermite welded were heated to 150 F before being spiked and welded.
They’re called “Gandy Dancers” for some reason.
Late to the party as usual.
Unrelated this article, I wanted to comment on an earlier article, alleged story about the 10 year old who was allegedly raped.
First of all, unless things have changed, 10 year old girls don’t have periods so they can’t get pregnant. I’m 56 and was 13 when I..well you know…got my .
She was 9, allegedly and you’re right, that story is complete and utter bullshit. They probably sent some operative into the barrio to find someone with offspring and offered them 20K and a free ride on the Government Cheese train if they’d just agree to say si to the errant reporter who might show up in order to back up the Brandon’s off the cuff fever dream.
A 9 year old can indeed get pregnant.
“A woman becomes able to get pregnant when she ovulates for the first time — about 14 days before her first menstrual period. This happens to some women as early as when they are eight years old, or even earlier. Most often, ovulation begins before women turn 20. On average, it first happens when a girl is between 12 and 13.”
A 5 year old Peruvian girl gave birth once.
Lina Medina, a Peruvian girl born in 1933, began menstruating at the age of eight months, was tragically raped as a 5-year-old and gave birth at six years, five months. She is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history. Medina is still alive today. Her son, born by caesarian section, was raised as her brother.
There are other substantiated cases of Andean girls giving birth from 5 to 7 years of age so I have no reason to doubt your story. They used to tell me back in the 80’s I was mistaken or exaggerating when I said you could buy all the 6 year olds you could afford right in downtown Manhattan NYC. Now they say tell me more about it.
Well, I suppose a girl can get her period at any age. Sounds like it is extremely rare, or the reporting of it is rare.
Whether or not the Ohio man rape story is real in all or in part, it is being pushed to elicit a reaction from the public, IMO.
Sus that it came out around the RvW decision and pride month (the LGB plus sign includes MAPs or p3d0$)
Sick that these men impregnated (allegedly) these 5-7 year old girls in Peru. Or it could have been aliens doing experiments.
My girlfriend in the late sixties had a little sister who began menstruating at 7. She was scared out of her witts that first morning. So did Drew Barrymore.
I suppose some Karen will tell me she didn’t really have her period at 7 because the Mayo clinic says the earliest age is 8.
What is Rearden Metal?
“If you’ve read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, then you know this was the setting for the John Galt Line. In the book the JGL is repaired with rails made from a new alloy called Rearden Metal. Rearden Metal is describes as blueish-green in color.”
A figment of Rand’s imagination.
Steel does expand. They used to have expansion joints in the track. I’m guessing they still do..
With the continuous weld track they no longer have them. No more clickety clack unless they are on a siding. I think they solve expansion with long barely discernible s curves spread over miles instead of feet.
I must have been a RR man before continuous welding because there were gaps between rails and click-ity-clack went the wheels. We also used Cabooses and you don’t see them on the ends of trains anymore. I’m telling you folks that we could move more freight faster and cheaper than trucks but for the government rules.
Blacksmiths across to the globe don’t know …steel tracks are melting at 100 F … Who in the fuck needs coal?
When the Natural Gas lines blow up, people will wish the environmentalist had not shut down the coal mines and bulldozed the coal fired generating electric plants, and scraped the railroads.
It is the compressor plants that are burning. I believe it is 4 so far.
Repairing a pipeline is easy compared to rebuilding a compressor plant. That’s why they will go for the sub-stations rather than the transmission lines when they attack the electric grid.
What does his ‘early life’ page say ?
Sorry, I can’t focus. I’m too busy watching Christy Noem’s interview. She got her lips so plumped up she’s making smooching noises when she talks…. I guess she’s getting ready to run… or something…
sCiEnce! tracks have expansion joints, duh.
The rails will expand, like any steel but this article is Bullschiff, that’s why sections are gapped for expansion and contraction. It’s the same as laying a pipeline you break it up into sections, so it doesn’t grow off of the skids or in cold weather shrink and do the same. I’m sure Amtrac being the government professionals they are know this(sarc).
At the intersection of Dairy Ashford and Richmond Avenue in Houston, the northbound side of Dairy Ashford has buckled 2″ higher than than southbound side.
I pass thru that intersection twice daily. It happened quite suddenly.
As I recently had back surgery, I feel every bump in the road.
Auntie is getting sleeepy, very sleeeeeepy, ……
I remember 103 F was common as a kid in north Florida and by heck it still is only now I know it feels like 117 F for whatever that’s worth. Anybody that has touched metal in the Sunshine knows it is a whole lot hotter than the air temp.
I remember playing outside in Kansas City in 114 degree temps. I don’t remember the date but records show that it was July 14, 1954. That was hot and it has been hot every July since then. The warmers must be right.
It gets hot every summer. There are heat waves every summer. Just like every winter it is colder and there are arctic outbreaks of colder temps. Do not allow the left to use the climate change hoax to take our rights away and impose tyranny.
It doesn’t have to be true to work. As long as Joy and Whoopie, the oxy morons of the View say it’s true then it’s true.
Railroads have spent millions to eliminate the clickety-clack of the steel wheels passing over the rail joints. As a lad in 62 I took my last trip by train. The noise was an integral part of riding the rails. Fast forward where the rails are welded together in long unbroken strings. Well the expansion in the steel has to go somehere. Bring back the clickety-clack.
Plenty of 100+ degree days here in SC yet CSX freight trains run nonstop day in and day out.
Have lived here for over 30 years and have never heard of stoppages due to heat related buckling of tracks.