Katrina fall-out

What 100 city buses could do in a non-emergency situation when the
freeways had normal traffic flows is totally irrelevant to what they can
do when every major route is running at parking lot speeds.

16 hour drive from New Orleans to Houston according to a namesake I
frequently communicate with from there. Course they didn't need to take
them that far, but any the city buses could have removed, would have
been more than doing nothing until now with imported buses...

What about trains?
Are there rail lines that run into New Orleans?
You can move thousands with boxcars and flatcars and a couple engines.

john smith wrote:

What about trains?
Are there rail lines that run into New Orleans?
You can move thousands with boxcars and flatcars and a couple engines.

6 class A rail lines I think the mayor stated...

Darrel Toepfer wrote in message
...
john smith wrote:

What about trains?
Are there rail lines that run into New Orleans?
You can move thousands with boxcars and flatcars and a couple engines.

6 class A rail lines I think the mayor stated...

I don't know exactly where this is, but some of those rail lines have turned
into shipping lines:
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/274104

- Rick

You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.

"john smith" wrote in message news:Y2NRe.61330
What about trains?
Are there rail lines that run into New Orleans?
You can move thousands with boxcars and flatcars and a couple engines.

"sfb" wrote in message news:_aPRe.18405$um2.5851@trnddc03...
You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.

"john smith" wrote in message news:Y2NRe.61330
What about trains?
Are there rail lines that run into New Orleans?
You can move thousands with boxcars and flatcars and a couple engines.

Hardly,

Using railcars to take people TO life is the antithesis of the Holocaust.

Jay B

sfb wrote:
You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.

"john smith" wrote in message news:Y2NRe.61330

What about trains?
Are there rail lines that run into New Orleans?
You can move thousands with boxcars and flatcars and a couple engines.

Yes, I did realize that, which is why I did not include a reference to
it in my original posting.
The difference being that the boxcars would not be locked in this case
and the conditions at the destinations would be significantly better
than those of the previous reference.
If the passengers are too small minded to realize these differences and
choose not to escape then one has to question their intelligence.
Take the train and live, or stay in New Orleans and suffer or die?
Personal choice determines their fate.

back In The Day,
Marine days that is , they would move us all over the place in "cattle
cars". Yep , behind a big old truck! It was hot and pretty dern miserable
during the summer, but it beat the heck out of walking ! I never really felt
like a steer either. Most of the folks needing that ride out of New Orleans
probably do not have a clue to what the holocaust was. If they knew alittle,
they probably didn't know about the "Death Trains". Remember in the last
survey of Americans, 50% did not know George Washington was the Commanding
General of the Continental Army
Ok OK OK , maybe I did get alittle nervous when we would pass a sign
that said KANSAS CITY...

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

"john smith" wrote in message
.. .
sfb wrote:
You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.

"john smith" wrote in message news:Y2NRe.61330

What about trains?
Are there rail lines that run into New Orleans?
You can move thousands with boxcars and flatcars and a couple engines.

Yes, I did realize that, which is why I did not include a reference to it
in my original posting.
The difference being that the boxcars would not be locked in this case and
the conditions at the destinations would be significantly better than
those of the previous reference.
If the passengers are too small minded to realize these differences and
choose not to escape then one has to question their intelligence.
Take the train and live, or stay in New Orleans and suffer or die?
Personal choice determines their fate.

sfb wrote:
You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.

I doubt that many of the poor in NO remember the holocaust.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Maybe, but the President Bush's good friends on the left will only be
too happy to explain it to them. The Jesse Jackson's and Al Sharptons of
the world would be all over TV screaming about a lily white government
loading black people on box cars to haul them away from the homes to God
knows where.

"George Patterson" wrote in message
news:iPPRe.10783$wE1.1200@trndny01...
sfb wrote:
You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.

I doubt that many of the poor in NO remember the holocaust.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person
to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

sfb wrote:

Maybe, but the President Bush's good friends on the left will only be
too happy to explain it to them. The Jesse Jackson's and Al Sharptons of
the world would be all over TV screaming about a lily white government
loading black people on box cars to haul them away from the homes to God
knows where.

Jesse was in South America, easing tensions...