BOB2 Wrote:
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> Hutch maybe works in CA, and lives here because
> this is one of the ten wealthiest and best paid
> states in the US, and he makes good money here.
>
> CA has one the largest percentages folks with more
> than a high school degree, and has more college
> undergraduates, graduate, and professional degrees
> (JD, MD, PhD) than the 9 states with higher
> percentages put together. And, is one of the
> highest income states. Which is maybe why CA is a
> "donor" state, that only gets back about 95% of
> the taxes we pay the Federal "gubmint" back,
> because we have to pick up the slack, on about 23
> (what is the latest number on that?) poorer CA
> "welfare" benefitting, recipient states.
>
> Maybe, he works in any industry that has a
> connection to trade, since, CA carries through it
> nearly half the value of imports, and has 3 of the
> most cost effective and direct rail routes to
> transport it to the rest of the country. Where,
> those awful ILWU guys, with a strong union, can
> still knock down a couple of hundred K a year,
> with OT, unloading those containers.
>
> Maybe, he works for a studio, or production
> company, who are based overwhelmingly here. Even
> the teamsters driving the stuff to locations make
> better three of four times the wages most
> non-union truck drivers do in anti-union states.
>
> Maybe he works for SpaceX or JPL? Or maybe,
> Laurence Livermore, or UC Davis, or USC, or
> Stanford, or City of Hope, doing research on
> everything from space, to advanced materials, to
> the cures for cancers?
>
> Maybe he is working on AI? Or, maybe he's working
> for Tesla? Or, maybe he's installing solar
> panels? Or, maybe he's just one of the millions
> of folks supporting all of the folks that are
> doing those things...
>
> Maybe, he works in tourism, one of CA's largest
> employers, at Magic Mountain, Knott's Berry Farm,
> Magic Mountain, Universal, Sequoia, Kings Canyon,
> Yosemite, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, the Redwoods
> State Park, Mammoth Mountain, in cultural tourism
> at the Getty, the Norton Simon, the Huntington
> Library, or even driving the Hollywood Site Seeing
> Buses... Maybe, he works in RR tourism at the
> Sierra, or the CSRM, or Roaring Camp...?
>
> Maybe, he's in construction, a contractor, or in
> some other trade, because we do have the largest
> population and the most building, and the biggest
> freeway system, and water system in the nation,
> with a lot of work, that provides. Or, maybe,
> he's connected to the building homes, or that
> "evil" "in-fill", or even on a new subway line, or
> commuter project like Redlands?
>
> Or, maybe, Hutch just likes the rich rail history
> of CA, and the fact that we have one of the best
> intercity, and urban commute networks in the US,
> and you can sit at the Fullerton depot, sipping a
> cold beer, watching the sunset on a nice spring
> afternoon and see more passenger and freight
> action in a few hours, than most folks have seen,
> in 90% of the country, in the last year.
>
> Maybe, it's just the weather, as one of my
> friends, retired out of CA, to one of these rural
> paradises, just mostly spent last week, shoveling
> snow, so he could get his car free, to drive
> seventy five miles, to the nearest medical office,
> for his appointment...
>
> I don't know why Hutch is here, except for the
> pretty good reasons he gives, work and family.
> But, I do know that he posts some good rail stuff
> he finds, though, and that trolls like you never
> do.
>
> That RR history and action, would be enough, for a
> lot of folks. That's because this is supposed to
> be a rail board.
>
> AP was started as train board. It wasn't supposed
> to be the I hate CA discussion board (or, an I
> hate, "fill in the politics, race, sex.. blank",
> site), for a tiny pile of losers, and the daily
> dose of pus they seem to always spew, about how
> much they hate CA, or whoever else they hate and
> blame for the condition of their pathetic
> lives....
>
> Nope, LOL, maybe you're not from CA... Maybe,
> given the type of content, you could be posting
> from a broken down RV, outside of a tweeker
> shooting gallery and glory hole, somewhere out in
> one of America's rural opioid and meth consuming
> low wage economic powerhouses...? Or maybe, these
> days, even from Moscow, or St. Petersburg...?
>
> And, PDX please stop baiting them... I know it
> can be tempting. They are so predictable, and
> that making fools of them can be like "shooting
> fish in a barrel" (that's a metaphor, too),
> because this handful of trolls are usually such
> pathetic losers, that they make an easy target...
> But try... I'm even trying... Although, I do
> know that when you read some of the stupid crap
> that these nitwits spew, it's real hard....
>
> As Samuel L Jackson said, in that last scene (shot
> right here in CA), "I'm trying real hard..."
>
> But, I couldn't control myself on this one, so I'm
> hitting post....

Dunno Oklahoma has some pretty good railroading. Another state I might consider spending my pension in.


Spent all my life living in California. I used to love it. But the last 10 years the state as a whole just feels like it’s circling the drain. Used to be California had the nicest roads and infrastructure. Not to metion how clean with minimal graffiti. And don’t get me started on taxes.