The War in Fayettenam

I want to clarify one issue.  Most people never have experienced "Fayettenam."  Unless you have been stationed at Fort Bragg as a member of the United States military, the phenomenon of "Fayettenam" would be foreign to you.  Simply put the feeling of Fayetteville isn't what was created by enthusiastic pundits of tourism.  "History, Heroes, and a Hometown Feeling."  At times Fayetteville has had a warm subculture driven mostly by money.  With enough money many things can be ignored.  Fancy houses, country clubs, and good jobs are able anodynes for enjoyment.  Over the years Fayetteville has succumbed to the desires of Base Realignment and Closure.  Many in Fayetteville will tout the wonderful benefits of B.R.A.C.  There have been benefits such as military dollars infusing the local economy.  Personally what I have seen is a tipping of the scales in the opposite direction.  I will not argue with the benefits of military expansion, but I'll comment on other effects on the city and her surrounding community.  Largely these are ignored for good reason.  The ill effects of a burgeoning Ground Forces Command have begun to outweigh its benefits for city residents.  B.R.A.C. benefits those who decided Fort Bragg would be the hub of military activity.  Most industrial activity at Naval Weapons Station, Joint Base Charleston was moved to Fort Bragg, and rail traffic increased dramatically.  The Apache helicopter replaced Kiowa, and with its emergence came a new aerial gunnery range.  The mission of the Apache is to attack and destroy.  While those involved with flying the Apaches may not notice, the presence to the community of these menacing birds is significant.  They bring an air of intimidation, which is appropriate for a fighting machine.  They can intimidate the civilian population, when they are not understood.  While military personnel may become accustomed to the low thump of helicopter rotors, this constant drone by itself is intimidating, especially when the source is cloaked.  The sound is classified as infrasonic, and its effects have been well-studied.  The location of Fort Bragg is appealing to the military for many reasons.  One is easy access to Interstate 95.  With the newly built I-295 inner loop, munitions flow easily to Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point via truck convoy.  I-95 is the main north/south corridor of the Eastern Seaboard, and all ready brings its own ills such and drug and human trafficking.  Fayetteville could be nicknamed "Fayettenam" for its railroads alone.  Few places are a logistical hub for three railroads including CSX, Norfolk Southern, and the Aberdeen and Rockfish.  Ironically these three railroads intersect in downtown Fayetteville, and  few days pass without multiple consists in their yard on Russell Street.  Rail traffic in Fayetteville has increased, and the  Trump administration has something to do with it.  The A&R alone has increased their activity often beginning early in the morning and shunting freight into the late evening.  It used to be one train a day from 10:45 A.M. to 1:45 P.M.  Now their activity seems 24/7, and it is of consequence because their tracks transect many local neighborhoods in Fayetteville including the Carolina Inn Assisted Living Facility.  During the Covid "Shelter in Place" protocol by Governor Roy Cooper, when schools were shuttered and students were at home, the Aberdeen and Rockfish capitalized by using this track as a makeshift freight yard.  It was of no consequence that Berean Baptist Church and Academy and Montclaire Elementary School were only a few feet away.  The A&R promptly parked tank cars Labeled "Hazmat" in this location for months.  Only recently have they been relocated downtown next to the aging cotton warehouses.  It is convenient this short line railroad exploits its contracts in Fayettenam but continues to call itself the Aberdeen and Rockfish.  It should be the Fayetteville and Aberdeen, but "Fayettenam" provides them many clients near River Terminal.  What benefits do a short line railroad offer a community?  There is their property tax for the county, but with an extremely small work force, Fayetteville residents see few benefits.  The presence of this railroad is detrimental to Fayetteville's quality of life.  The use of decades old, two stroke, turbo-charged GP locomotives creates a sonic pallet of diesel knock and infrasonic vibration which can't be disguised.  The city knows when they're here.  Let's consider this continual local rail traffic and add CSX and their Milan Street Yard.  Two large clients demand continual freight service, and DAK Americas is serviced by their track in the middle of Russell Street.  Each day a CSX local makes its way on this Vander Line meandering through east Fayetteville until arriving along the banks of the Cape Fear River.  Similarly you know when this local is present, because CSX uses a "rebuilt" GP-38-3 replete with AC traction electronics.  Residents know when any AC locomotive is nearby, because its effects are tangible and negative.  Most noticeably AC locomotives tamp down the power grid robbing current from our homes.  When there is an AC locomotive nearby, our lights are dim and things run slow.  Wabtec, Motive Power Resources, General Motors, and General Electric will disagree touting the wonderful results adding AC induction motors to traction.  These locomotives are ambulent AC power plants, and the necessary precautions for their use largely are ignored.  (Such as the number of AC locomotives in a consist)  High voltage electrical processing is necessary to produce low frequency alternating current, and often these locomotives operate in this range emitting large amounts of EMF radiation.  Imagine a two mile long coal train being pulling by rotating electromagnetic fields.  These are some powerful magnetic fields, and this energy deeply penetrates human tissue effecting the the heart and brainwaves.  This radiation is so rampant and global the world unsuccessfully has tried to acclimate to it.  There are dozens of new tangible  ailments, syndromes, and diseases, and large pharmaceutical companies are eager to accommodate with their own drugs.  It should not be happening, and the appropriate governmental regulatory agencies have failed to police it.  There are deep pockets in Washington, and they don't belong to senators.  The Norfolk/Southern operates incognito, and Fayetteville Block Materials is their largest client.  I-295 is Fay Block's client, so this local business has profited greatly.  "Fayettenam" is created when the drawbacks of the military industrial complex outweigh its benefits.  How does it feel to live in Fayetteville?  It feels like "Fayettenam."