History Repeats Itself

Not only am I angry, I am depressed.  I can't pull myself out of the hole.  My brain and my emotions cannot be conned this time.  Both they cry out for the truth.  The truth is America has regressed to a time when the railroads ruled the country.  They took your property.  They spewed coal dust on your belongings.  They fill your homes with invasive and unwanted electricity.  I have wondered why the Norfolk Southern Railroad did not invest in AC traction when it became available.  The other large rail companies did, because they were concerned with hauling timber out of the Pacific Northwest and coal out of the Appalachian Mountains.  AC traction is more efficient than DC for these applications.  Norfolk Southern did not purchase AC locomotives at the onset.  Now they have.  They are rebuilding their DC locomotives into AC's.  For the layman that means a C40-9W at 4000 horsepower now becomes 4,400 horsepower replete with a power inverter (insulated gate bipolar transistor, or thrysistor), a device that with the aid of a PC processes electricity.  I have described this phenomenon before.  Instead of utilizing traditional direct current traction motors, with the now available technology of Siemens and GE, locomotives can use alternating current.  To move the train AC current must be processed by the computer to change its frequency.  It does not remain consistent like AC current in our homes.  (60 cycles)  The frequency of the AC current is the speed of the motor and thus the locomotive.  When it travels slowly low frequency AC current is required.  Therefore as a train "switches" or moves car, constantly it is speeding up and slowing down.  AC current constantly is being produced at varying frequencies most of them low.  When the train reaches traveling speed, the AC current increases.  For the life of me I cannot figure out why Norfolk Southern sends two of these behemoth AC locomotives to Fayetteville.  Back in the day, in a time of modesty, conservation, and honesty railroads would use a small switching locomotive to put trains together.  I have seen two DC traction locomotives pull a large military train out of Fort Bragg with no problem, and yet N/S 9408 and 9745 putt into downtown Fayetteville to pick up one car.  Mind you that is 8,800 horses, 4,400 HP apiece.  Other than the AC 6000 these are the most powerful freight locomotives in existence.  Why would Norfolk Southern be using these in Fayetteville?  The answer is irresponsibility, arrogance, and ignorance, the same adjectives which describe Washington, DC.  How is it possible that a pathological liar was elected president?  It is because the electoral college is antiquated and false.  The "popular" vote, the actual vote of Americans should decide who is president.  Two million people thought Hillary Clinton should have become president.  An electoral college, a group of people whom we know nothing about, elected Donald Trump president.  Who are these people?  How are they chosen?  Why was the future of America in their hands?  Why is America in the hands of incompetent lawmakers in Washington, DC?  Both my brain and my emotions want to scream at the injustice in America today.  My house is filled with vibration and electricity from CSX-T, Norfolk Southern, the Aberdeen and Rockfish, the Cape Fear Railway, and the U.S. military.  Trump wants to start a war with North Korea, the way W. started a war in Iraq to save face for his daddy.  These are not smart people, just like the people that own and run the railroads.  We better start understanding that our lives are at stake, as they always have been in America.  We are fighting for our lives, and not against ISIS.  We are fighting the rich.