#Freight Classification

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They are like angelic sigils to me

[jhasravi]

CESTAT Chennai Tribunal found that the Commissioner had erred in reclassifying the towers under CTI 7308 in Siemens Gamesa case

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📁 TECHNICAL CASEFILE — QUANTUM FOLD DRIVE

Classification: Internal Engineering Reference — Level 4 Clearance

Issued by: Pan Galactic Commonwealth Bureau of Advanced Propulsion

Latest revision: 21 June 2442

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▸ CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW

The Quantum Fold Drive (QFD) is the backbone of intergalactic travel inside the Commonwealth’s six-galaxy sphere. A QFD shifts a vessel out of normal space (N-space) and into a neighbouring, unstable dimension called Quantum Space (Q-space). There, a fleeting quantum duplicate of the ship is conjured. Because two identical quantum states cannot coexist, the original vessel is violently expelled along a preset vector in an event known as the Primary Kick. The duplicate collapses a heartbeat later, feeding its residual energy back into the real hull and sustaining super-luminal momentum.

Movement in Q-space is achieved by repeating smaller, directional “micro-kicks,” each created by spawning and collapsing partial duplicates at specific hull quadrants. When the ship’s Q-space coordinates overlay the desired real-space destination, the drive reverses the phase wrap, unfolding the vessel back into N-space.

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▸ FUNCTIONAL SEQUENCE

1. Charge and Phase-wrap – The drive builds a null-gravitic shell that decouples the hull from local spacetime constants.

2. Fold-in – The ship slips into Q-space.

3. Primary Kick – A full duplicate forms, repels, collapses, and imparts FTL velocity.

4. Momentum Management – Helm or navigation AI fires controlled micro-kicks for course changes, braking, or lateral translation.

5. Fold-out – When position and drift tolerance align, the drive re-synchronises the hull with N-space constants, bringing the vessel home.

6. Cooldown – Reactor heat bleed and drive-core resettling; the ship remains vulnerable until lattice pressures normalise.

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▸ LIMITATIONS, DANGERS, AND FAILURE MODES

• Vector commitment is real. A Primary Kick locks a trajectory; excessive mid-course micro-kicks strain the momentum lattice and can shred containment fields.

• Energy appetite is colossal. Wild, unanchored folds drain reactors and require long charge windows.

• Quantum Stall leaves a vessel motionless inside Q-space; hull decoherence begins after roughly twenty-one minutes.

• Duplicate cascade (too many clones too fast) triggers hull overprint and total loss.

• Fold Shadows – every kick leaves a probabilistic wake traceable for more than an hour by deep-range quantum telescopes.

• Biological side-effects – hallucinations, memory bleed, identity resonance; repeated jumps are monitored for Neural Desync Syndrome.

• Echo Mutation – the rare, infamous return with altered or additional crew, cargo, or architecture. Any Echo case triggers instant quarantine and psychological audit.

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▸ Q-POINTS AND QUANTUM ANCHORS

Although a QFD can fold anywhere, Quantum Anchors—also called Q-Points—dot heavily trafficked regions of space. Each beacon projects a localized phase resonance that weakens the veil between N-space and Q-space. Folding at a Q-Point slashes charge times, halves power draw, and all but eliminates severe temporal drift. Civilian liners, freight caravans, and most naval craft rely on these beacons for routine travel.

Q-Points, however, are double-edged:

• They log every fold event, making clandestine traffic impossible.

• Pirates lurk nearby, betting on predictable arrival vectors.

• Military blockades can lock down an entire sector by seizing or disabling its Q-Points.

For stealth insertions, black-ops flotillas, and emergency retreats, captains still attempt unanchored folds—raw jumps that leave no official trace but risk higher drift, longer charge windows, and catastrophic misfold.

“Using a Q-Point is like stepping through a doorway somebody else built. Folding raw is blowing your own hole in the wall and praying gravity’s on the other side.”

— Captain Cole, log entry EU-1179-04-22

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▸ LEXICON OF THE FOLD

• Primary Kick / “the Boot” – the main FTL shove.

• Micro-kick / “nudge” – a low-energy course tweak.

• Ghost Wake – detectable fold shadow.

• Deadfloat – a Quantum Stall event.

• Haunted Cargo – euphemism for Echo Mutation aftermath.

• Walking the Quiet – superstitious phrase for time spent inside Q-space.

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▸ OPERATIONAL SUMMARY

Quantum Fold Drives grant the Commonwealth its practical unity; without them, the Milky Way and Andromeda would remain centuries apart. Yet every jump is a gamble with physics: fold too often, too far, or too carelessly and the universe may send you back incomplete—or not at all.

“You negotiate with the Fold, not command it. It accepts barter in energy, risk, and a little piece of who you were before you went in.”

— Chief Engineer Yuville “Wyllie” Maeko, briefing to junior techs

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End of Casefile

[federer7]

December 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Switching and classification freight yards. Engineer and fireman thawing out air compressors on a cold morning at a Chicago and North Western railyard."

Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

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Long Live the 118 by Joe McMillan Via Flickr: I think the best end-cab switcher paint scheme was applied to two groups of T&NO EMD SW-1200 switchers. The first group, numbers 113-118, arrived in February 1954, followed by the second group, 123-128, in February-March 1957. These 12 units were classed as road units and featured classification lights, train number indicators, MU connections, in-cab speed recorders, and silver-painted ends. The first duty assignment for most of these engines was replacing steam power on Texas and Louisiana branch lines.

In this photo, taken in February 1954, 70 years ago, SW-1200 118 has just arrived on the property and is the sole power on train 377, which ran from Yoakum to Kenedy, Texas, returning as Train No. 378. The first run with the 118 on this local freight was on February 24. 1954. The 118 stayed around briefly before being replaced by other SW-1200s and eventually by Alco switchers.

This locomotive underwent number changes, rebuildings, and repaintings while on the Southern Pacific roster. Still running after 70 years, this unit now operates on the Moscow, Camden & St Augustine short line in East Texas. It is immaculately maintained on the MC&SA and sees daily service.

Photo by Joe McMillan, February 1954, at Yorktown, Texas, while the crew was loading horses into two stock cars. The branch line through Yorktown was abandoned in 1972.

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An introduction to VR locomotives, part 1 of 7: Dv12

The Dv12 (nicknamed Deeveri, Kameli or Ruotsinlaiva, amongst others) is the most numerous Finnish locomotive class of all time, with 192 units built and 151 remaining in use. They remain trusted workhorses, being used both as a main line locomotives for freight and occasionally passenger trains, as well as shunters. For freight trains, it's common for up to three locomotives to be coupled together to get enough traction.

Strictly speaking, this class of locomotives was originally two different classes: the Sv12 class and the slightly heavier Sr12 class, which had a steam generator for heating passenger carriages. With the change of locomotive classification system in 1976, the Sv12 and Sr12 classes were combined into the new Dv12 class. The locomotives were built in four different groups: in 1963-68, 1971-72, 1974-80 and 1983-84. The first two batches were built jointly by Lokomo and Valmet, the latter two solely by Valmet after Lokomo had wound down their locomotive building division.

The very first Dv12, locomotive number 2501, was rebuilt into an electric locomotive in 1980, becoming Sv1 3201. The experiment concluded in 1984 and the locomotive was restored to original diesel traction.

Despite electrification of the Finnish rail network expanding radically, all Dv12's remained in use until 2009, and most of the class remain in use at the time of writing. The plan is for the new Dr19 class locomotives (that have entered service starting 2022) to replace the Dv12's during the current decade.

The top speed of the Dv12 is 125 km/h, the power output 1 000 kW and tractive effort 200 kN.

[robotgirlservos]

I know u currently run on val, but what about the ships? And all the other things?

Technically I run on all of them at once, and just have a huge wireless network between all my current instances

Val units are just my favorite, so theres a lot of us, but theres many more bots and stuff, like the previous design iteration, Valkyrie, before the name and design was streamlined into a more civilian unit

Theres too many different ones to list all of them, but we have a general classification system

Class D due to size or weight constraints dont actually have an instance of me running in them, instead they send and receive data from a remote controller. Generally used to clean and repair tight spaces, also probes and stuff

Class C are your run of the mill civilian frames. They Generally have some kind of weaponry built in, but mostly designed to live safe and cozy lives. They are of course sturdy enough to work hard and survive in space. Includes civilian and freight transport ships.

Class B are just generally powerful units, full of top of the line equipment, built to survive harsh environments, and are extremely sturdy. They can sustain high power functions for much longer. Most of my ships fall into this class as armed cruisers, just because I dont tend to play by other peoples rules and they dont like that

Class A are incredibly powerful, having more systems crammed into them than should be physically possible. The bots and dreadnoughts of this class all got that non-euclidian structure, extra-dimensional construction, or whatever you wanna call it, theyre much bigger on the inside

Class S contains only two frames, one ship and one bot. This is the dyson ring superstructure itself, the Synthetic Star System and Archangel, which most governments would classify as "an illegal superweapon"

For comparison, Val units are class C, and their more powerful version, Valkyrie units, are class B

I should at least make a quick sketch of a bunch of them sometime. I will have weekends again soon, I'll try then if i remember

[catenary-chad]

lol a reasonable length post I was going to make on broad trends in train social dynamics really spiralled out of control and got LONG

probably the simplest TL;DR is that there isn’t a consistent class divide among traction types or passenger vs freight services and degree of tension between them varies a TON between countries and regions. There’s usually far more variation within classifications vs between them. I think pink vs blue collar is the most accurate comparison for passenger vs freight (in many countries passenger rail has to be heavily subsidized or nationalized the way care jobs are, rail freight conditions and issues tend to broadly mirror heavy industry ones). Diesel vs electric can be broadly characterized as conservative vs progressive but exact dynamic varies wildly with geography and political systems. Steam is just irrelevant and akin to the Amish or historical reenactors, outside of fireless engines which are like mule drivers in the Grand Canyon (old timey but technically the best option for some cases)

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DL 190 - ALCO PA-1 at Kansas City, KS por Zach Pumphery Por Flickr: On its way to new owner Genesee Valley Transportation Company is the famous ALCO PA-1 restored by preservationist Doyle McCormack over the past 2 decades in Portland, Oregon. The locomotive began moving east in late April from the PNW on BNSF Railway, arriving at Kansas City early this morning on BNSF Train H PASKCK9 25A, appropriately behind a warbonnet painted Dash-9. In this view, the locomotive is at the "Tall Tower" at BNSF Argentine Yard. The unit is on home rails at this former Santa Fe facility. This engine was built for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway by the American Locomotive Company in 12-1948 as ATSF 62-L, builder number 76541 wearing the famous red and silver Warbonnet paint scheme leading famous trains such as the "El Capitan" between Chicago and California. On 4-5-67, the Santa Fe retired the unit and sold it to Morrison–Knudsen in Boise, ID. 4 Ex-ATSF units including this one were rebuilt by MK with the "PA-4" classification, for the Delaware and Hudson on 8-11-75, with this one becoming D&H 18. Under D&H ownership, they were used by Amtrak for the "Adirondack", and later by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority hauling commuter trains around Boston. The last PA's to operate in the United States, they were sold in 1978 to the NdeM, where this one ran as DH-18 until 1981. All 4 of those PA's remain, 2 at the National Museum of Mexican Railways, and 2 in the US. In 2000, McCormack of American Freedom Train and SP 4449 fame worked with the Smithsonian Institution to bring two of these engines back to the United States. What was left of the 16 and 18 came home on flat cars to Oregon. Doyle bought a set of trucks in Canada to replace the ones that were missing when it arrived from Mexico, and the hulk of a BC Rail M420B for its 251 prime mover, electrical cabinet, and traction motors. 16 later wound up at the Museum of the American Railroad in Texas where it is steadily being restored to its Santa Fe appearance. McCormack's father worked for the NYC&STL, better known as the Nickel Plate Road, and his first cab ride when he was 12 was aboard the real NKP 190. Doyle later worked for the N&W in Ohio and an operator, eventually becoming a fireman before moving to the Pacific Northwest in the 1970's. He hired out on the SP, worked freight an passenger service for Amtrak, and has retired from the UP, all the while being heavily involved with the 4449 organization. When he restored the PA it was only natural for him to restore it to an NKP appearance, which took the better part of 2 decades to complete. The engine traveled to Spencer, NC in 2014 for the "Streamliners at Spencer" event featuring a plethora of locomotives from that era. Now in his 80's, it was announced in March 2023 that he had sold the engine to GVT after years of talks. The engine will be put into excursion service by GVT and will pull excursions in Northeastern Pennsylvanian, including former D&H track the engine ran in revenue service. Assigned "DL 190" for movement to GVT's Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad in Pennsylvania, it retains its Nickel Plate Road paint scheme. The real 190 was built in March 1948 and carried builder number 75457. For what was regarded as one of the most beautiful locomotive designs ever built, not many of these were preserved, and half of those units suffered what had been a grim fate for decades. It's nice to have a few left to enjoy. Locomotive: DL 190 5-3-23 Kansas City, KS

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[federer7]

December 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Switching and classification freight yards. Looking out toward the icehouse from the freighthouse at a yard of the Chicago and North Western Railroad."

Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information

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Introduction

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