What Holo would do if they were all like me

[kildone]

Split like the monopolies of railroads and telephones were forced to. Then there could be four potential guilds fighting for raid mobs. Just seems like so much more fun to me.

[kildone]

Cause I love to inspire posts like yours. Come back and Pvp sometime.
/who all Ridez

[kildone]

Or just send me a tell I can port I will come to you.

[Kergan]

why dont you make like a tree and leave

http://img.fark.net/images/cache/300/f/f4/fark_f4fe_VJr7bgWm106k1yToc6S7PI.gif?t=lPExm44VkJ1 hMU0KpKSLgg&f=1427083200

[Zalaerian]

Railroads still have a monopoly.....

[krazyGlue]

Railroads still have a monopoly.....

Not true

[Zalaerian]

O really? Currently is split regionally with a "you stay in your area, I'll stay in mine" mentality that will always be backed by the gov't. NS controls the NE, UP the PAC NW to Chicago, BNSF So Cal to Chicago. CN is your only real Canadian option w some UP. Yea you have guys like CSX but they are paying NS and BNSF to run on their lines majority of the time anyway.

[Colgate]

tbrz dropping mad railroad knowledge

feels weird tbh

[Zalaerian]

The majority of freight that is moved across north America is done via rail. Alot of people think the railroads are some relic of the past for transportation. Those people are very wrong.

[kildone]

http://img.fark.net/images/cache/300/f/f4/fark_f4fe_VJr7bgWm106k1yToc6S7PI.gif?t=lPExm44VkJ1 hMU0KpKSLgg&f=1427083200

Because people like you never have and never will have an influence on my actions.

[kildone]

Railroads still have a monopoly.....

The key word is were. Referring to the original intent not the result.

I am sure if Holo, or the past guild of the same type or the yet to come version, were forced to split they would form little monopolies as you mentioned the railroads resulted in.

The key in what I would do if they were all like me is that it would be voluntary for the purpose of having more real pvp on this pvp server.

I do think that would be a great time for all. But they are not all like me. Someone recommended I try guild wars 2, looks pretty neat. Might try it if I get bored here.

[Bardalicious]

Someone recommended I try guild wars 2, looks pretty neat.

Surely this person is not your friend and is trying to troll you.

[Kergan]

Because people like you never have and never will have an influence on my actions.

Relax wasn't even referring to you.

[kildone]

Relax wasn't even referring to you.

Ok my bad. In retrospect didn't seem like your style. I was just having fun and jumped to conclusions.

[mrproudbeard]

O really? Currently is split regionally with a "you stay in your area, I'll stay in mine" mentality that will always be backed by the gov't. NS controls the NE, UP the PAC NW to Chicago, BNSF So Cal to Chicago. CN is your only real Canadian option w some UP. Yea you have guys like CSX but they are paying NS and BNSF to run on their lines majority of the time anyway.

Huh interesting... Is the cost of shipping on each line regulated or do they each charge their own rate?

[kildone]

Surely this person is not your friend and is trying to troll you.

Oh damn really? Or maybe your trolling its sometimes really hard for me to tell. But I tend to believe you because I was just checking it out some more and it seems kinda like WoW on steroids and just a money making machine geared towards a wider market rather than a true world Pvp experience.

Although I must say I really enjoyed WoW during beta and early days on thunderlord before battlegrounds came out. I wasn't to crazy about the Pvp limitations of teams, no talking to the other side and protected zones but it seemed like a half decent way to stop "griefing"

I still wish someone would release a game line UO which I never knew existed until it was over.

[Jimmybones]

The majority of freight that is moved across north America is done via rail. Alot of people think the railroads are some relic of the past for transportation. Those people are very wrong.

Railroads are the second largest mode of transportation of freight in North America. Trucking is still the largest.

"Trucks carry three-fifths of U.S.-NAFTA freight and are the most heavily utilized mode for moving goods to and from both U.S.-NAFTA partners. Trucks carried 59.2 percent of U.S.-NAFTA freight in July 2014, accounting for $30.5 billion of exports and $29.3 billion of imports.

Rail remained the second largest mode, moving 14.8 percent of all U.S.-NAFTA freight, followed by vessel at 9.1 percent, pipeline at 8.5 percent, and air at 3.4 percent. The surface transportation modes of truck, rail and pipeline carried 82.4 percent of the total U.S.-NAFTA freight flows (Table 2)."


Source - http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/press_releases/bts045_14

[Jimmybones]

THIS HAS NOW BECOME A LOGISTICS THREAD

[Zalaerian]

Domestic freight possibly. Add in steamship containers, no way.

[Zalaerian]

Also until just recently, only like a handful of Mexico carriers could meet DOT regulations, making inbound Mexican freight a pain in the ass due to the needed cross boarding. Most companies didnt want to put up w that BS and just railed into the US.

[Zalaerian]

Huh interesting... Is the cost of shipping on each line regulated or do they each charge their own rate?

Technically no, the rails were deregulated in 1980s with motor carriers. Collusion creating a monopoly is a better description

[kildone]

My post was half joke but we are so far from Pvp this thread needs to be moved to off topic. Kinda interesting but I'm a nerd irl that way.

[Jimmybones]

Here are the statistics for inter-us shipping. Trucking is still by in large the most common way to move something across the United States. Railroads are more efficient but not as prevalent as the government would like it to be. The DOT has a ongoing campaign to shore up the railroad infrastructure in the U.S in order to make the leap from trucking to RR's.

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/freight_shipments_in_america/images/figure_03.gif

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/freight_shipments_in_america/html/figure_03.html

[Zalaerian]

Also, currently the rails are running at like 28%. Norfolk and the rest of them want to keep it as low as possible while doing just enough that the gov't doesnt get involved and force them to increase cap.

[Zalaerian]

Also Ames, they are defining rail as rail cars,tankers, ect. They are pulling intermodal out of that data (also old data @ 2002).

[Nirgon]

Cazadero and San Pablo Railroad was a 60-kilometer (37 mi), 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge line built in 1896 as the Ferrocarril Cazadero La Torre y Tepetongo from an interchange with the Mexican Central Railroad (Ferrocarril Central Mexicano -- Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México after 1909) at Cazadero La Torre southwest through Nado to the sawmill community of San Pablo in Estado de México. Passenger service began to Nado in 1897. The line was reorganized as the Ferrocarril Cazadero y Solis in 1906. Lumbering and railroad operations were suspended during the Mexican Revolution; but the line resumed operations in 1922 as the Ferrocarril Cazadero y San Pablo. Thirty kilometers (18.6 mi) of logging branches were constructed around San Pablo. The forests were completely harvested, and operations ceased after World War II. Three locomotives surviving the revolution were sold to sugar plantations, but rails remained in place for another decade.

[Kergan]

This thread has been derailed.

[JackFlash]

This thread has been derailed.

Or maybe "railed"

confused.

[hatelore]

wtf did i just reed~

[Akalakamelee]

Blackburrow had some good trains.

[Pikrib]

lol great thread. I just watched this shit literally get derailed.

Note to self~ Never bring up anything having to do with trains, rails, or maybe even Ayn Rand.

[blammo]

when they were passing out brains you thought they said trains so you got on one and started riding around on it

[krazyGlue]

I give up . I work for the railroad and didn't know all of that nor do I care . You must be some kind of rail buff

[Genedin]

lol great thread. I just watched this shit literally get derailed.

Note to self~ Never bring up anything having to do with trains, rails, or maybe even Ayn Rand.


Nice

[fred schnarf]

thank god we have unemployeds like jibekn and ames to google these topics and cut and paste the text here

what would we do without these guys i mean really?