Let Jimi Take Over!

The world seems a very scary place, and I'm not sure why.  In North Carolina the vaccination rate is thirty-one pecent.  (That means not many residents of North Carolina are getting the Covid vaccine.)  Whatever the reason, a disbelief of the authenticity of the vaccine, a distrust of Big Pharma, or a perceived infringement of personal freedoms, it is frightening.  It is frightening when your fellow man can kill you.  We have enough violence all ready.  Murders abound.  You would think we would want to be on the rebound, but things seem more foreboding than usual.  The Marines have have left Fort Bragg, but there was a flurry of activity today.  I have come not to mind the howitzers.  At least you know what they are, when they fire, and who is doing it.  What is more disruptive is the AC4400CW in the Milan Yard assembling a freight train consisting mostly of DAK America's product.  They make plastic bottles.  PET Resin.  Pellets.  I drove by today and that hulking, wheezing, whale of a machine was determined to get 'er done.  It is no surprise I don't like these things.  I have proven my case over and over in words.  Why has this particular several weeks been so oppressive?  It flipped on like a light switch, that low frequency wave which is comprised of air pressure, electricity, vibration, and possibly magnetism.  It has stayed in the low frequency range for two week, and all the while I have speculated they are putting together trains.  It was not until I drove by the Milan Yard today I saw it in person.  There was 434, Mr. Lightening Bolt, doing his thing.  I came home and Googled the number, and the result was no surprise.  It wasn't an ES44AC, the GEVO engine that replaced the previous 7FDL to comply with EPA Tier standards of emissions.  It was a Circa 1990 AC4400CW, the most invasive of all of the locomotives.  It simply is a DASH 9 on steroids, that being a C40-9W, a DC locomotive but with the 7FDL prime mover.  This wonder of the world is four thousand four hundred horses with a power inverter for each axle.  That makes six inverters each controlling an AC brushless traction motor.  Imagine the amount of tractive control when the computer can control each axle of two bogeys, three axles per bogey.  I guess this is why Mr. Gung Ho chose to use this highly tuned and powerful machine to assemble his DAK pellets.  Maybe it was something else.  DAK has their own yard, and it is large.  Many DAK Americas plants have their own engines.  'Round these here parts, they have their own custom sorting yard.  It  is amazing how one machine can leave such an environmental footprint.  Maybe they have lessened its carbon emissions, but the greater emissions now are electronic.  We are living in the ensuing "Electronic Age."  It has been predicted many times.  Microwaves all over the place jumping around, intermodulating without anyone really knowing it.  This stuff.  This low frequency alternating current.  This is a different matter all together.  When Mr. AC4400CW is out on the road hauling coal, it is not of such consequence.  Even at a whopping four miles an hour, those traction motors pull themselves out of the infrasonic range.  Putting trains together in a switching yard, back and forth, over and over, "Please let Jimi take over!"