Altamont Press Discussion Board

04-04-2024 - 06:52

Hey dufus

1. Re: McKinsey Pete's forced conversions to EV's is about rationing private auto use. That's why they aren't expanding the elec grid to keep up. Few charging stations actually being built

Hey dufus charge at night. O's Fundamental Transformation Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For all those wondering why there isn't a parallel > push to expand elect
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02-14-2023 - 11:19

Nobody's perfect

2. He's a pretty good critic of the 'news' media's terrible partisanship, but he's way over his skis on this story

I suspect Matt Walsh will eventually back off this story, either soon ignoring it or maybe even issuing a correction in the next few days. Using the phrase 'American Chernobyl' is ridiculous, even
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07-25-2022 - 18:32

Just Sayin'...

3. Re: RDG 2102

Which one of the Reading steamers made it out to Seattle; was it 2101 ? If so, the guy that " owned " ( <- ? ) it was a TOTAL DUFUS. He gave a Booorrriiinnng talk at the old Northwest Railfan Group me
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01-13-2022 - 19:42

Dufus

4. Re: Don't bother clicking, Hey just links to You're an Idiot meme

Hey, Dufus! Standing in a puddle while sticking your finger in a electrical socket is a damn stupid thing to do, ain't it. BIG shock! How many times you done it?
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07-29-2021 - 21:13

XXX

5. Re: totally OT but slow newsday laffs - decarceration

Hey YYY Dufus, why do the Republican's want to sweep the January 6 Insurrection under the rug if it is, as you say, Antifa and the FBI? You think ole Mitch would want that on the front page of the NY
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03-16-2021 - 20:52

WebDigger

6. Re: LAUPT "run-thru" will be finshed by 2028.. Yeah, that's kind of what the meeting needed to clarify and didn't....

On 03-16-2021 - 17:46, BOB2 Wrote: http://www.altamontpress.com/discussion/read.php?1,222915,222919 ------------------------------------------------------- > . . . could someone school me on the pro
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03-16-2021 - 17:46

BOB2

7. Re: LAUPT "run-thru" will be finshed by 2028.. Yeah, that's kind of what the meeting needed to clarify and didn't....

Dept of Fail Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The "mar-hole" won't have started the first EIR by > then! > > That project has so many fingers involved, it'll >
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12-02-2020 - 18:21

BOB2

8. Re: Altamont Press-It's not time for Seppuku..... EGBOK!

AP is an open site, and only on extreme occasions, does David do much moderation. Railroad "regulars" have good discussions and know directly or indirectly many of those who are genuine rails and/or
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06-21-2020 - 08:19

BOB2

9. Re: Now that Amtrak has CEO airline#2 .. This is what "winning" feels like...ain't in great again...?

George Andrews Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't see Amtrak going away In A State And > Federal Election Year. No one wants to be the ( > choose one or more
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02-24-2020 - 22:42

DAVID

10. Re: SP 2472 STEAM WAS NEVER IN LARKSPUR CA

Ivan the Sneak Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > NWP Tiburon Line bridge stuck in up position. > > That's the NWP main line to Sausalito, Dufus. and it covere
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02-24-2020 - 20:06

Ivan the Sneak

11. Re: NWP 2472 in Action

> NWP Tiburon Line bridge stuck in up position. That's the NWP main line to Sausalito, Dufus.
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01-22-2020 - 17:25

BOB2

12. Re: Climate Change activists vs Coal Train

Hutch ain't being cruel, he just needs to roll, and smoke, an Alco... But, this guy in the video is as dubious as some of the folks he's ragging on. He's right about one thing, lead by example, wh
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12-17-2019 - 08:27

BOB2

13. Re: The obvious, affordable solution, instead of a multi-billion $ tunnel? And, it's "obvious" that you've done a cost benefit analysis, right?

So when did you do the cost estimates and cost benefit analysis of replacing the single track, 30 mph. line along the bluffs, with a 110 mph. double track line in a tunnel? And, at what Universit
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03-11-2019 - 20:18

BOB2

14. Re: LaMalfa wants DOT to take back CAHSR money Idioits and grandstanding politicians....birds of a feather?

He's generally a big talking dufus, this is more of the usual grandstanding, and the grant conditions (which were pretty loosey goosey from what I've seen) will prevail, with or without piles of bull$
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11-14-2018 - 12:51

BOB2

15. Re: Another UP Trainning video - Getting off on the Right Foot. I don't think they can show this today....

UP had a series of serious accidents with newly hired young head switchmen and brakemen, over about three year period, and LA for a small part of the UP's workforce, had a large share, including a you
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09-04-2018 - 13:46

BOB2

16. Re: Cox attacks Valley routing of CAHSR OH WELL...?

Does he propose that we should tear out all of those roads, too, they take up about a 1000 times more land than evil the CHSRA fiasco ever could? Of course, this is the same idiot who pulled the st
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07-23-2018 - 22:16

Dr Zarkoff

17. Re: Caesar Salad, Genuine LA French Dip,, Panaoma RR, and CA...... .

> A colleague and I used to debate the proper plural of one of our bosses favorite words "dufus", was it dufus's, or maybe "dufi" (like when you're dealing with a herd of "dufi"), turns out that it's
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07-23-2018 - 10:57

BOB2

18. Good enuff for Chaucer, Shaikespeare, and Franklin....

A colleague and I used to debate the proper plural of one of our bosses favorite words "dufus", was it dufus's, or maybe "dufi" (like when you're dealing with a herd of "dufi"), turns out that it's do
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03-03-2018 - 21:35

BOB2

19. Re: Speaking of RR stuff that none of us really miss?

843, I really don't know what kind of RR you were, and I don't have any comment on that. But, from your post, I already know a good deal more about you. You seem to really like to bad mouth folks
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01-17-2018 - 19:15

BOB2

20. Re: FTA has Not Funded Larkspur Extension-LONP but Not FFA

It sounds to me like SMART is (and have been) incurring eligible project costs with a "letter of no prejudice, but don't as yet have a full funding agreement, with FTA. And, from this article it woul
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04-09-2017 - 15:12

Hutch 7.62 1/2

21. Re: Re:NO let's continue to be idiots.....

BOB2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Actually you, and your paranoid Ken and John > conspiracy theories, make my entire case, we > deserve a free ride, don't have
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04-09-2017 - 13:35

BOB2

22. Re: Re:NO let's continue to be idiots.....

Actually you, and your paranoid Ken and John conspiracy theories, make my entire case, we deserve a free ride, don't have to maintain the roads, the tooth fairy will somehow do it, because of......uh?
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01-01-2017 - 10:42

BOB2

23. Re:The "Great Train Robbery"???????

There have been some occasions of organized looting in the past, but no reports of hoards of machine gun toting Mexican's (today's obvious choice of culprit.....?) somehow stopping trains in the deser
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12-07-2016 - 18:38

BOB2

24. Re: Gold Line/ I-210 freeway shut down due to stupidity

It didn't last long, though. Although, for about a half an hour every friggin' helo in LA was flying over it. Somebody apparently spotted and reported a bundle of cloths or jacket, thrown by the
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09-26-2016 - 20:35

BOB2

25. Re: Drunk? We'll find out soon enough.....

Bob, When I was working on the problems with so many folks running the Blue line gates and causing accidents, before LADOT finally integrated the traffic signals, the "average" blood alcohol of the
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09-02-2016 - 07:13

BOB2

26. Re: SD&AE in trouble, again.-not really....? No more than normal....

This looks to be about the insider scam artists and gullible investors, who are trying to recover their "investment", after years of playing each other off and screwing each other over. And, it would
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06-27-2016 - 08:39

BOB2

27. Re: Are you a just clairvoyant or God himself?

And you're clearly just a dumbass, once again buying into her trolling bull$#it, with whatever your line of currently fashionable "opposite but equal" "right wing" political bull$#it you've been spoon
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05-20-2016 - 09:43

Herman Munster

28. Re: Natural gas, trolls, fools, and even trains

BOB2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And, as to some of the real trolls on here who > make accusations about others motives, based on > pure nonsense and crap t
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05-20-2016 - 07:23

BOB2

29. Re: Natural gas, trolls, fools, and even trains

When NG was finally deregulated coal was actually cheaper, and later when we started doing demonstrations of tier 3 and tier 4 heavy duty engines, diesel was cheaper.... but that has completely flipp
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03-29-2016 - 23:08

BOB2

30. Re: Trainnews - volume 9 - issue 062 Cox????

Wendell Cox, now there's a fairly famous (infamous?)four star attention seeking political hack and rail hating dufus from my misspent youth...... And, of course, he's on Fox....where he now appears
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