Longer trains might have a second locomotive to push the train from the back. This is primarily due to the fact that you can’t push anything from the front.
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In Japan, if someone uses a train to commit suicide, his family can be sued for damages; however, if he gets a train pregnant, he is under no legal obligation to support the offspring.
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The name “monorail” for a single-tracked train comes from the inventor’s favorite virus.
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Steam engine inventor James Watt created the term “horsepower” to allow those unfamiliar with technology to visualize how powerful an engine was. The term was also chanted during a brief period in the 1960’s when horses and mules demanded the right to vote.
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The longest direct train route is the Trans-Siberian Railway at nearly six thousand miles. Worst destination on that line? All of them.
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The heaviest train ever recorded was a 7.2 kilometer-long freight train in Australia that weighed as much as twenty-seven full-grown elephants, forty teenage elephants or half a blue whale, two rhinoceros and a couple of apples.
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Railroad systems help alleviate congestion on our highways… so, if you have a chest cold and find yourself on a highway, find a train.
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In the nineteenth century, many scientists thought that, if a woman traveled at fifty miles an hour, her uterus would fly out of her body; but, it turned out that, the few times it DID happen, it had nothing to do with how fast they were going.
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The fastest magnet-levitated trains are in Japan and can travel at 375 mph. It takes quite a distance to come to a full stop but most Japanese high-speed trains manage to stop before they get past New Zealand.
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In 1993, a sixteen year old boy managed to impersonate a conductor and drive a subway train for three hours before he was caught and forced to join a union…
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The dragons put the horses and mules up to that. They were being asses
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They ARE trouble-makers. All that fire-breathing makes them cocky.
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Yeah, I was going to draw one, but I didn’t want to inflate their egos
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Now that you’ve said it, you HAVE to draw one. BTW, I’ve just about finished How to Get Rid of a Body…
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Nah, I’m drawing a Pallas cat now, thought extinct but just slumming it in Antartica. I’m glad you’ve nearly finished HTGROAB. I might need it soon 😃
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You may need piranha, Deb…
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Why?
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I would love to have your gift of funny, C 😂 Alas, SOMEONE has got to be the audience 🤓 And note to self: NEVER take a trip to the last destination on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Like, EVER…
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Take solace in the fact that you are a WAY better writer than I am, Patti…
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Well dang, C… 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💕
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When push comes to shove, you can push someone from the front who’s trained not to push back, but then some might think you’re on track to be a MAGA Republican and the other guy is a wimpy Democrat.
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But, if he is pushed backwards, that backwards becomes forwards…
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This is timely—I’m taking the train on Sunday (and back again on Monday).
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Amtrak?
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Yup!
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Cool! Let me know how it goes…
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Will do!
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I’d like to know how 19th century scientists determined 50 mph was the magic speed for flying uteruses. I can’t see many women volunteering for that test…
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It was a simple extrapolation of what they already knew about a woman’s “humours” being bilious and often producing hysteria.
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I dare any man to have 20 surface of the sun hot flashes a day and remain sane.
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Wait, you CAN’T push from the front?… Well, that clears up a few of my life’s mysteries …
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I didn’t say that you can’t TRY…
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Oh, I found it very trying, yes… 😏
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The title, alone, is brilliance.
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