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Re: Pacific Rim, Railroad to announce contractor
Author: Dave Smith
Date: 07-13-2008 - 11:44
July 14, 2008
(UPI)
It has just been anounced that former NBC television executive Fred Silverman, creator of the hit series "SuperTrain" back in 1979, has been brought out of retirement to take over the post of Chief Visionary Engineer for the Pacific Rim Railroad. One of his first acts will be to construct the PRR in double-gauge so that he can revive his dream of implementing "SuperTrain" passenger service. He has garnered the interests of investors such as Richard Bransen and Paul Allen, virtually gauranteeing the PRR plans are more than just psychotic pipe dreams.
"People who travel by train are tired of being cramped up in narrow dining areas and tiny roomettes" he is quoted as saying. "With our state of the art proprietary double-gauge trackage we will offer a passenger service that even cruise ships will envy." Freight service may also benefit from the double-gauge technology. "We will be able to carry ocean containers and truck trailers sideways instead of double stack. That will allow our COFC/TOFC trains to be 1/4 the length of standard gauge double stack trains, yet we will carry 30% more containers and trailers."
Environmentalists immediately attacked the plan as unfeasable and insensitive to victims of Nazi Germany. Jane Harripits of the Sierra Club was one of the first to object to the plans of the Silverman Group. "Those double wide passenger train schemes are directly borrowed from Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, who was planning to build giant wide gauge luxury trains for the Arian elite. It is highly offensive to those who suffered under Nazism, namely Communists and others, and as such should be aborted before more are offended." Silverman dismissed such retoric, pointing out that his double-gauge was actually 3 inches wider than the Hitler plan.
The PRR would also run regular standard gauge trains to allow interoperability between other railroads. Bransen has already brought out of retirement R. M. Nixon of Wilkes Montana, the inventor of the leap frog train passage system.
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This will allow standard guage trains to pass right over the tops of the double-gauge trains, which will be equipt with standard gauge rails running over the tops of the passenger cars.
(UPI)
It has just been anounced that former NBC television executive Fred Silverman, creator of the hit series "SuperTrain" back in 1979, has been brought out of retirement to take over the post of Chief Visionary Engineer for the Pacific Rim Railroad. One of his first acts will be to construct the PRR in double-gauge so that he can revive his dream of implementing "SuperTrain" passenger service. He has garnered the interests of investors such as Richard Bransen and Paul Allen, virtually gauranteeing the PRR plans are more than just psychotic pipe dreams.
"People who travel by train are tired of being cramped up in narrow dining areas and tiny roomettes" he is quoted as saying. "With our state of the art proprietary double-gauge trackage we will offer a passenger service that even cruise ships will envy." Freight service may also benefit from the double-gauge technology. "We will be able to carry ocean containers and truck trailers sideways instead of double stack. That will allow our COFC/TOFC trains to be 1/4 the length of standard gauge double stack trains, yet we will carry 30% more containers and trailers."
Environmentalists immediately attacked the plan as unfeasable and insensitive to victims of Nazi Germany. Jane Harripits of the Sierra Club was one of the first to object to the plans of the Silverman Group. "Those double wide passenger train schemes are directly borrowed from Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, who was planning to build giant wide gauge luxury trains for the Arian elite. It is highly offensive to those who suffered under Nazism, namely Communists and others, and as such should be aborted before more are offended." Silverman dismissed such retoric, pointing out that his double-gauge was actually 3 inches wider than the Hitler plan.
The PRR would also run regular standard gauge trains to allow interoperability between other railroads. Bransen has already brought out of retirement R. M. Nixon of Wilkes Montana, the inventor of the leap frog train passage system.
[home.earthlink.net]
This will allow standard guage trains to pass right over the tops of the double-gauge trains, which will be equipt with standard gauge rails running over the tops of the passenger cars.
