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Hildegard (she/her)
lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Joined: 2024-12-07
Posted:   Subject: The most important rule Quote

an american freight train with a black boxcar with yellow all caps lettering that says "DO NOT HUMP"
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Drewmeister
lemmy.world
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Joined: 2025-04-04
#2 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

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Remember_the_tooth
lemmy.world
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Joined: 2025-01-23
#3 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

Instructions unclear. Boxcar is pregernant

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Hildegard (she/her)
lemmy.blahaj.zone
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-12-07
#4 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

Instructions unclear. Boxcar is pregernant

Only way to make new cars after the Budd company went bankrupt. RIP.

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Remember_the_tooth
lemmy.world
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-23
#5 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

Only way to make new cars after the Budd company went bankrupt. RIP.

That is some really deep train lore that you just shared of the top your head. Much respect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Company

Edit: I'm learning something today:

https://docshipper.com/glossary/humping-rail-definition-logistics/

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yetAnotherUser
discuss.tchncs.de
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Joined: 2024-06-01
#6 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

Dragons humping train carts

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Tanis Nikana
lemmy.world
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Joined: 2023-07-19
#7 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

Instructions unclear. Boxcar is pregernant

Preganté?

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rockSlayer
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Joined: 2025-02-24
#8 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

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dhtseany
lemmy.ml
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Joined: 2023-08-08
#9 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

I mean ok fine but what is the car actually for and why can't I hump it?

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Hildegard (she/her)
lemmy.blahaj.zone
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-12-07
#10 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

I mean ok fine but what is the car actually for and why can't I hump it?

Its the track inspection boxcar its full of cameras.

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atomicbocks
sh.itjust.works
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Joined: 2025-02-16
#11 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

I mean ok fine but what is the car actually for and why can't I hump it?

Apparently humping in train terms refers to the act of using a small hill at the decoupling point to force the cars apart using gravity. Supposedly this is hard on the cars and their contents especially when coming to a stop afterward.

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teslekova
lemmy.ml
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Joined: 2026-08-05
#12 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

Its the track inspection boxcar its full of cameras.

Ah, so if they hump it the stress might break/misalign the cameras and all that tasty equipment?

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egrets
lemmy.world

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Joined: 2023-06-14
#13 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

I mean ok fine but what is the car actually for and why can't I hump it?

"Humping" in this context means pushing the trailers onto a small hill and releasing them one by one to send them onto different tracks to make up new trains.

It's efficient but it can damage delicate cars or fragile contents, hence the warning.

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maria ~
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-05
#14 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

nono you are allowed to hump, its okay. you can hump all you want <3

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germanatlas
lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Joined: 2023-06-26
#15 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

JoJo Well wrote about this in 1984

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myyass
lemmy.world
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Joined: 2026-09-02
#16 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

I went to a nature park once. They had signs "Don't Molest the Alligators." as there's a reason for that sign.

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Hildegard (she/her)
lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Joined: 2024-12-07
#17 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

nono you are allowed to hump, its okay. you can hump all you want &lt;3

No. No humping that car. 😡

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maria ~
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-05
#18 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

No. No humping that car. 😡

well.... at least put a pillow inbetween.

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Hildegard (she/her)
lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Joined: 2024-12-07
#19 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

well.... at least put a pillow inbetween.

That would destroy the pillow. Knuckle couplers are not gentle.

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maria ~
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-05
#20 Posted:   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

love the hand drawn angry eyebrows <3

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maria ~
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-05
#21 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: The most important rule Quote Reply

That would destroy the pillow. Knuckle couplers are not gentle.

oh... well then... i guess not. no humping near this car.

~but~ ~otherwise~ ~go~ ~ahead~

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