The Irreverent

By the way I am so disillusioned.  You know my love for the Dash 8 and the Dash 9.  [sic] Grunge music as a product of the l990's is an artistic asset to humanity and American pop culture.  Ironically it is possible grunge music was a necessary byproduct of both the Dash 8 and the Dash 9.  It seems classical composers suffer from a variety of mental disorders.  Possibly Kurt Cobain, an inhabitant of the Pacific Northwest known for its logging industry, didn't respond well to the infrasonic pollution created by AC traction.  Fully I understand Norfolk Southern opted out of the AC traction movement, while Union Pacific and CSX-T invested in this newly created technology.  Untested.  Unstudied.  Unregulated.  Fully I understand that both the Dash 8 and the Dash 9 do not utilize AC traction motors and thus power inverters, until now.  They are the most powerful DC traction freight locomotives in existence.  With a 16 cylinder turbo-charged diesel four stroke engine, horsepower of between 4000 to 4400 is their mark.  If that isn't insult enough to the population, in an attempt to promulgate their aging assets GE is recommending that their fleet of Dash 8's and Dash 9's be "upgraded" to AC traction.  Not only are they an infrasonic nightmare, now they can be an electromagnetic nightmare as well.  Cheers.  It won't be long before the our meager earth reaches the event horizon of electronic pollution and disappears into a giant black hole with nary a blip.  Maybe then GE will realize after we are all dead and the planet is destroyed.  I guess they have some great plan of how they are going to relocate on God's chosen planet before the apocalypse.  Maybe that is why our federal government is handing Sierra Nevada Corp. hundreds of millions of dollars in non-bidded contracts through the Department of Defense to create a network in space.  Maybe NASA has found God's chosen earth-like planet, and the powers-at-be are trying to figure out how to get there leaving the earth behind to decay in her own human-created filth.  It's kind of like globalization having left America behind to decay in her own human-created filth, until China succumbed to her own unique indigenous infrastructural problems.  (Such as massive pollution worse than America)  We stunk her up, so what's next?