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Train Autists

submitted by Trope to Interesting 1 weekApr 19, 2025 23:48:41 ago (+23/-0)     (files.catbox.moe)

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[ - ] AntiPostmodernist 18 points 1 weekApr 19, 2025 23:58:39 ago (+18/-0)

So they discriminate against the very guys who'd be best at the job. Why?

[ - ] Sector2 2 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 00:21:02 ago (+3/-1)

Because they're "neurodivergent". They would not be good at the actual job and would be high risk, due to the combination of mental illness and heavy equipment.

If you haven't seen one of their train videos, some of them virtually foam at the mouth over seeing #8871 (made up engine number) coming along the tracks.

Random thought: Can a train be considered a 'tracked vehicle'?

[ - ] Rotteuxx 7 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 07:36:48 ago (+7/-0)

[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 1 weekApr 20, 2025 11:16:33 ago (+1/-0)

This is funny as hell. Especially with that head-mounted camera.

Still, I can’t help but be happy for him. Hopefully, he has a career best suited to serve this world.

[ - ] i_scream_trucks 0 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 22:19:07 ago (+0/-0)

Even the 4 year old with grandma be all like 'that bitch got the tism bad'

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 1 weekApr 20, 2025 14:46:17 ago (+1/-0)

*#56098

"Thanks for coming in. We don't have any openings at this time."

[ - ] BMN003 4 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 07:32:09 ago (+4/-0)*

No, because their roadwheels ride a pair of rails rather than continuous linked tracks. I get where you're coming from but "railroad track" is a colloquialism which has nothing to do with track drive mechanisms.

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 1 weekApr 20, 2025 14:41:09 ago (+1/-0)

Tracked vehicles use continuous tracks instead of wheels for ground contact and propulsion. This design distributes the vehicle's weight over a larger area, reducing ground pressure and making them suitable for soft or uneven terrain like snow, mud, and sand.

Friction Drive: The track is driven by friction between the track and the drive wheel or sprocket.

Positive Drive: The track is driven by sprockets that engage with teeth or pegs on the track links.

With friction drive mechanisms, the only difference between the train and the tracked vehicle is the position of the track with respect to the vehicle. Both use powered wheels to advance along the track. With the train, it's literally a track on the ground they must follow. The non-train 'cheats' by looping the track around the wheels. In the friction drive case, I'd argue they both fit the description of tracked vehicles.

The M113 armored personnel carrier (APC) uses a tracked drive system to propel itself. Power is transferred from the engine to the transmission, then to the steering differential, and finally to the left and right final drives which connect to the track sprockets

I used to drive one of these with a 4.2 inch mortar tube mounted in the back. Still rides on 'tracks' like a train, but completely different drive mechanisms.

[ - ] BMN003 0 points 1 weekApr 21, 2025 10:55:08 ago (+0/-0)

You have a point, but that definition would necessitate that the tracks connect to themselves in a loop. The moment a train enters a section of track with a blocker, it would cease to be a "tracked vehicle" on account of the tracks are no longer continuous.

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 1 weekApr 21, 2025 11:13:15 ago (+1/-0)

Tracks don't need to be continuous. If the train remains on tracks it's a tracked vehicle. If a M113 unhooks the track loop and lays it flat on the ground, or hooks multiple sections together, it's still a tracked vehicle.

Arguably, a train is more of a tracked vehicle than a M113 because it both rides on a physical track, and follows "a track" across the landscape.

[ - ] BMN003 1 point 1 weekApr 21, 2025 11:17:49 ago (+1/-0)

That thought occurred to me after I posted, and I think what you've successfully argued here is in fact that tracked vehicles are just trains that carry the track with them. In conclusion, the M113 is a train.

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 1 weekApr 21, 2025 11:30:36 ago (+1/-0)

In conclusion, the M113 is a train.

I have to concede your point.

[ - ] Jinglebanger 0 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 14:41:04 ago (+0/-0)

I assume they tried that, presumably with your rationale, and disliked the results.

[ - ] GeorgeBailey 8 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 06:21:59 ago (+8/-0)

I got another one for you.

I heard a fire captain say that during an interview process if he even gets a whiff of somebody wanting to become a firefighter to save people he doesn't hire them...

Heroes not wanted.

[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 1 weekApr 20, 2025 11:18:19 ago (+1/-0)

Odd, I was under the impression that this is exactly why one would work toward becoming a firefighter.

I’m sure it’s actually to get to ride in the big red fire truck.

[ - ] Storefront 0 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 11:37:14 ago (+0/-0)

I think in this case we are talking about the difference between the kind of person who wants to save people and the kind of person who desperately wants others to view him as a hero, to the point where he fetishizes it. There are firefighters who start fires to put them out, and I'd guess that's the latter category. Same for cops. I kind of understand that. But I don't see the point in keeping a train fan from working on trains.

[ - ] NoRefunds 0 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 12:00:56 ago (+0/-0)

Yeah they always grab wildland fire volunteers

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 5 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 06:41:04 ago (+5/-0)

I didn’t realize it was such a common thing. There was a Black kid in NYC who stole a few MTA trains over the course of like 10 years and had all sorts of keys and equipment that he shouldn’t have.

[ - ] Storefront 0 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 11:29:50 ago (+0/-0)

Wait, let's hit pause on this. He STOLE TRAINS? Like an entire train car? I need these details.

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 0 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 11:49:38 ago (+0/-0)*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwmtJKf24xc

It's not out of malice. It's a weird compulsion. It's funny that nogs let him work in their stead to void work.

[ - ] NuckFiggers 4 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 02:27:24 ago (+4/-0)

Johnny Cash was a train guy. He may have been a lot of things but he wasn't a mental case.

[ - ] germ22 4 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 01:10:38 ago (+4/-0)

So exclude the people who would be very passionate about their job. Seems backwards to me.

[ - ] Master_Foo -1 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 07:08:03 ago (+2/-3)

People who are passionate about their hobby, quickly get disillusioned once they realize they don't get instant gratification from menial tasks on the job.

Foamers don't ever need to clean the shitter on the train because they aren't employees, they are hobbyists.

[ - ] Trope [op] 0 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 11:19:48 ago (+0/-0)

I agree with you but would suspect it would be on a per-person basis.

Like, you might hire a dude like SpongeBob who absolutely loves everything about the job and lingers around even after he’s clocked out.

[ - ] i_scream_trucks 0 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 22:21:26 ago (+0/-0)

Drivers generally dont clean the shitters anyway thats what cleaners are hired for....

[ - ] Master_Foo 0 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 22:47:08 ago (+0/-0)

OK, mr Autism.
Apply the logic to any job/task.
Driving a train is fun on a model railroad.
It gets sucky fast when you are doing it for 12 hours a day every day.
Foamers aren't lasting a week.

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 1 weekApr 20, 2025 09:54:51 ago (+1/-0)

Stobe The Hobo was notoriously famous for using this term in his videos.

RIP hope your riding that great train in the sky.

[ - ] HelenHighwater 1 point 1 weekApr 20, 2025 00:17:08 ago (+2/-1)

Can't help but think of trainspotting. " 1,000 years from now there will be no guys and no girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me."

[ - ] Smedleys_Butler 0 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 13:33:27 ago (+0/-0)

Model train enthusiasts may be worse

[ - ] Storefront 0 points 1 weekApr 20, 2025 11:33:54 ago (+0/-0)

My son is an autist and crazy about trains. But he's quite good at engineering and makes amazing maps of imaginary routes that are far more efficient than existing routes.

He also has studied all the metro lines globally (well the big ones Paris, London, Moscow and ofc NYC because he grew up there). He can name every stop on every line for countries he's never been to, as well as the mechanical characteristics of each train.

I'd rather die than see him work for one of these mouth breathing bureaucrats.