TJT
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- Dec 17, 2017
One of many things that the average person does not realize.So now there are endless miles of railroad trackage that is unusable. It's rusted and warped, bent rails laying in sinkholes, whole sections of track where the rails and ties have been pried up to be used to build some scrap shack. Prime movers and rolling stock sit in abandoned rail yards rusting away, the motors seized, scrappers picking at their massive corpses for who-knows-what.
Much of the railroad track in the USA was laid in the 19th century. Especially the rural areas. Yet nearly all of it still works. I have a relative who works for the railroad doing this. He's a complete retard but a hard working blue collar type. His job for the past decade has been to inspect and repair track across the remote areas of the Pacific Northwest. Replacing unserviceable pieces, piece of rail, nails, and so on. Now you must consider that across the US there are people like him doing exactly this. In every single state. Day in and day out. Every single day for going on two centuries now since the railways became a thing.
In Africa? Lol.