Thin Lizzy and the Taos Hum

It is interesting when stars collide.  It is interesting when shit goes down which validates your personal opinion.  It is interesting when disparate elements are juxtaposed revealing a greater understanding of an seemingly unknown nuisance or even murderer.  Tonight was such a night.  To the dismay of my mother she and hundreds of other Fayetteville citizens  first hand were exposed to the Taos Hum.  The Taos Hum.  I'll say it again.  The Taos Hum.  The Taos Hum is a combination of annoying low-frequency sound and vibration produced by a General Electric-built slow moving conveyer belt buried beneath the ground in New Mexico.  It transports the mined element Molybdenum.  How did this annoying General Electric-built slow moving conveyer belt buried beneath the ground in New Mexico find its way back stage at Festival Park in Fayetteville, North Carolina?  It was puzzling for about half an hour.  The hum was there louder than anything on the stage (a Journey cover band) and louder than the ambient noise created by traffic flow over the Rowan Street bridge.  The crowd was noisy, but you couldn't hear them for the hum.  The hum appeared instantly first perceived to be in the P.A. system of the Festival Park concert.  It was masked by a large freight train traveling on CSX-T's mainline directly behind the stage.  There was a combination of elements (noise) juxtaposed revealing two trains.  One was traveling, and the other was sitting downtown near Festival Park.  When the traveling train passed the hum increased in intensity until we could see its source.  Another train.  This train (or rather locomotive consist) pulling a very long stretch of evidently very heavy cars was giving birth.  Electricity had built up in its electrical processing to a massive level to create a strong enough magnetism to pull these cars.  Traction motors.  AC traction motors.  DC traction motors.  Tesla.  AC induction motors.  Blah blah.  No one in the Federal Railroad Administration or the EPA could give a shit about this hum.  Ho hum.  Taos Hum.  Humbert Humbert.  Hummmm, hmmmm.  Where's my mum? Delores Hayes would not like the Taos Hum, and she would not have liked this incident completely overshadowing the musical performance of the Army Ground Forces Band.  The interesting thing was this hum was omni-directional.  Low frequency sound is omni-directional.  While the train squirted low frequency alternating current to its traction motors to make their rotors turn (axles), that massive amount of built up electrical power created a yet undiscovered phenomenon.  It was the Taos Hum.  It was a black cloud of angry, pulsating, vibrating, electrical energy louder than anything in the entire park or the whole city of Fayetteville.  Then it just stopped.  Poof.  The train is moving, the dangerous electrical "harmonics" are lost, and it speeds on its merry way at frequencies of far less consequence to the human organism.  Cancer is caused by the irradiation of healthy cells by electromagnetic energy.  Electromagnetic energy is an indispensable juxtaposition of electricity and magnetism.  Thus it creates an electromagnet, a rotating electromagnetic force that is strong enough to turn the axles of lengthy, heavy, fully-loaded freight trains.  That is some magnetism, and anyone living within a few clicks of it might take heed.  It ain't for the light of heart.  I have been cursing it for decades, yet tonight for he first time in full glory, the hum about which I have been ranting made itself known in a grandiose way.  It was the mysterious oeger behind the Festival Park stage.  Because it is transportable, CSX-T can send it wherever they please.  That is a fair amount of power for a transportation company.  I am positive it is not included in the mission statement on their corporate website. For sale.  The Taos Hum, but we will send it to you for free as a parting gift for enjoying the energy we produce by hauling coal to Duke Energy power plants.  We are responsible for destroying the Ozone and your body's cells at the same time!