#railway board

[townpostin]

Railways to Launch Affordable Amrit Bharat Train in 2025

New Service to Offer Vande Bharat-like Amenities at Lower Fares Key Points: • Amrit Bharat train targets middle and lower-income groups • 121 Vande Bharat trains to operate soon across India • Sleeper coaches coming to Vande Bharat Express • Plans for Bullet trains and Vande Bharat Metro underway JAMSHEDPUR – The Indian Railways is set to introduce the Amrit Bharat train in January 2025, catering…

[rightnewshindi]

रेलवे के शीर्ष पद पर पहुंचने वाले पहले दलित बने सतीश कुमार, रेलवे बोर्ड के नए अध्यक्ष और सीईओ हुए नियुक्त

CEO Satish Kumar: IRMS यानी इंडियन रेलवे मैनेजमेंट सर्विस अधिकारी सतीश कुमार अब रेलवे बोर्ड के नए अध्यक्ष और मुख्य कार्यकारी अधिकारी (CEO) नियुक्त किए गए हैं। इसके साथ ही वह रेलवे के शीर्ष पद पर पहुंचने वाले पहले दलित अधिकारी हैं। रेलवे में उनका अनुभव 3 दशक से ज्यादा समय का है और वह महाप्रबंधक समेत कई अहम पदों पर सेवाएं दे चुके हैं। मौजूदा अधिकारी जया वर्मा सिन्हा 31 अगस्त को रिटायर हो रही हैं,…

[swastikbangla]

এই প্রথম রেলবোর্ডের শীর্ষে বসছেন মহিলা আধিকারিক, জানুন জয়া ভার্মা সিনহা কে?

রেলবোর্ডের নতুন মহিলা চেয়ারপার্সন তথা সিইও হলেন জয়া ভার্মা সিনহা। বৃহস্পতিবার কেন্দ্রীয় সরকার তাঁকে নিয়োগ করেছেন। সরকারি নোটিফিকেশনে উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে, ক্যাবিনেটের নিয়োগ কমিটি জয়া ভার্মা সিনহার নিয়োগকে অনুমোদন দিয়েছে। তিনি রেলওয়ে বোর্ডের চেয়ারপার্সন ও সিইও হচ্ছেন। যেদিন থেকে তিনি দায়িত্ব নেবেন অথবা ১ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে তিনি এই দায়িত্ব নিচ্ছেন। রেলবোর্ডের একেবারে শীর্ষে বসছেন কোনও নারী। রেলের দীর্ঘ…

[rebel-bulletin]

गोंदिया से दौड़ेगी वंदे भारत ट्रेन, अलग होगा कोचिंग डिपो

गोंदिया से दौड़ेगी वंदे भारत ट्रेन, अलग होगा कोचिंग डिपो

गोंदिया : वंदे भारत ट्रेन के लिए बिलासपुर और छत्तीसगढ़ की सीमा से सटे गोंदिया में कोचिंग डिपो का काम शुरू हो गया है. इस आधार पर रेल अधिकारियों का कहना है कि छत्तीसगढ़ को दो वंदे भारत ट्रेन की सुविधा मिलेगी. पहली ट्रेन बिलासपुर से संपर्क क्रांति रूट से दिल्ली जाएगी. दूसरी ट्रेन गोंदिया से चलकर रायपुर-बिलासपुर होती हुई झारसुगुड़ा (ओडिशा) जा सकती है. दिल्ली जाने वाली वंदे भारत ट्रेन रायपुर नहीं…

[thegreatyin]

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

YES... HAHA...

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[eulaliasims]

Lately my gaming time has been spent on Stardew Valley (this run I'm finally gonna ask Krobus to be my platonic life partner/roommate 🥰), but also I started poking at this project again, which is a neighborhood that will theoretically become a vacation destination for Middleground.

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[intensivestimunit]

Make way for James, hooray for James! ~♫

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[trainmaniac]

Steam Engines and Gravity Power in a 1950s Colliery by Michael Alford

[drmopp1966]

i was at model rail scotland today and i got a triang M7!!

it has an opening smokebox door and a little light in the firebox!!

it literally cost. £20

absolute steal

[theramblingvoid]

MR FIRES?

STUPID IDIOT MOTHERFUCKING MR FIRES GOD DAMN FOOL FACTORY COLLECTING NIGHTSOIL EATING BAT OLD BASTARD SHITHEAD IDIOT MASTER OF THE WHORE BIGGEST CLOWN IN THE BAZAAR LAUGHED OUT OF LONDON COWBOY MOTHERFUCKING MR FIRES

STOP [Scandal is rising...] ME WHEN I TALK ABOUT MR FIRES I HATE IT SO MUCH WHY DOES IT HAVE SO MANY FUCKED UP FACTORIES WHY DID IT DECIDE TO FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT JUST GIVE THEM WORKERS RIGHTS IS IT DEAD IS IT A BASTARD BAT HAS SUCH A VISCERAL AFFECT ON ME NOT EVEN IN THE ROOM NEVER SEEN THIS BATS FACE AND I KNOW IT HAS THE WORLDS SHITTIEST BEARD GET AWAY FROM ME

if I wanted to get across the river and the boatman said mr fires is waiting on the other side i would piss on the sun just for the sole purpose of getting sent back across

if i have to deal with mr fires speaking one word in person on voice at my lodgings not only will i close the door I will delete my address out of spite and have to break out of new newgate and start new in london again for the experience of being able to skip all the times when it is mentioned or alive

i dont even know why i hate it so much. it collects OSHA violations but i am just mad because i am angy

it better have some fucked up backstory to explain this if it’s just some rich shithead whos a fan of union busting and wanted the irl version ill go ham

BETTER have had a correspondence plaque to make it kill a man cuz if it didnt im going to make it

echobazaar.com/IFuckingHateMrFires

railway projects not even about it. vaguely mentioned what is supposed to maybe be its factory holdings and I lost it

where the fuck is mr fires if its still alive im going to so deeply wish it wasnt

crusty old man

ill bite fires and its sad frail old man twig bones will simply flake apart under my epic huge replica Vake teeth and it will disintegrate until all thats left is one final factory invoice it kept on it at all times simply titled Now You Fucked Up in ancient Second City hieroglyphics

im not breathing im hyperventilating at this point

i hope theres a date given for when fires died or will die so i can make it a reminder on my calendar

everyday once a 1899 i will see it and do anything but pay respects to the bat who had so many fucked up and unethical factories

[townpostin]

Surinder Pal Appointed as Senior Deputy General Manager of South Eastern Railway

Surinder Pal takes charge as the new Senior Deputy General Manager of South Eastern Railway, Kolkata. Surinder Pal has been appointed as the new Senior Deputy General Manager of South Eastern Railway, bringing extensive experience and qualifications to his new role in Kolkata. JAMSHEDPUR – Surinder Pal has taken over the role of Senior Deputy General Manager of South Eastern Railway, Garden…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Big Business can't stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping

Seven years ago, I called Leonard Cohen’s Everybody Knows “the perfect anthem for our times.”

Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows

https://memex.craphound.com/2016/11/11/leonard-cohen-wrote-the-perfect-anthem-for-our-times/

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/16/compulsive-cheaters/#rigged

That was just after Cohen died, and while the world seems to want to settle on Hallelujah as his totemic song, Everybody Knows keeps inserting itself into the discourse, in the most toxic, hope-draining way possible. Whenever some awful scandal involving the great and the good breaches, we’re told that “everybody knew” already, so let’s move on.

This current has been running through our society for decades now. Remember when the Snowden leaks hit and a yawning chorus of nihilists told us that they knew already and so should anyone else with the smallest iota of sophistication? Back then Jay Rosen coined a rejoinder to this counsel of despair: “Don’t savvy me”:

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/344825874362810369

Everybody knows. It’s what we heard after the Panama Papers. Swissleaks. Luxleaks. The Paradise Papers. Everybody knows! It’s what the nothing-to-see-here crowd said about Propublica’s explosive IRSLeaks, back in 2021:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/15/guillotines-and-taxes/#carried-interest

The leaks revealed the tax-dodges of the richest and most powerful people in America, which were jaw-dropping in their audacity and shamelessness. Sure, maybe you suspected that the 400 richest people in America paid less tax than you — but did you really guess that the means by which they did this was through taking massive deductions on their elite hobbies?

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/13/taxes-are-for-the-little-people/#leona-helmsley-2022

Maybe “everybody knows” that the game is rigged, but did you know how? Like, did you know that REITs — a tax shelter for mom-and-pop investors who buy an income property for their retirement — have become a primary vehicle for gutting unions at hotels, slashing wages and imposing brutal, dangerous working conditions?

https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/01/reit-modernization-act/#reit-makes-might

The leaks are cumulative. By combining data from one leak with another, we can build out a far more detailed picture of the conspiracy — and it is a conspiracy — among the utlrawealthy and their Renfields in the law, real-estate and accounting trades to duck their responsibilities and mound ever-more treasure on their hoards.

Take the Jersey Offshore leaks (2020), comprising the internal memos of La Hougue, a fantastically crooked firm of fixers on the Isle of Jersey, one of the lawless tax-crime jurisdictions that the UK pretends it has no control over. La Hougue has a playbook, 11 tactics for lying about your taxes. The remarkable thing about these 11 tactics is how flimsy they are, how easy it is to penetrate their lies. When Parliament says it can’t possibly do anything about the criminal havens in the Channel, remember the Jersey Offshore leaks and remind yourself that not even Parliament is that credulous. They know. Everybody knows:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/20/la-hougue/#complexity

Why do working people think the Democrats are just another party for the ultra-rich? Maybe it’s Pelosi’s relentless opposition to meaningful curbs on insider trading. Or maybe it’s the kinds of politicians that the Democratic Machine likes to rally behind — like Tali Farhadian Weinstein, who raised millions in 2021, in large-money donations from Democratic finance-sector donors in her bid to become the DA of Manhattan. Farhadian Weinstein and her husband have more than $100m in annual income, and yet, paid no federal tax in 2013, 2015 and 2017. In 2014, they paid $6,584:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/17/quis-custodiet-irs/#trumps-taxes

Propublica isn’t done with the IRS Files. Today, they published a long investigation into ultra-rich corporate executives who buy and sell their competitors’ stock for massive profits with suspiciously precise timing. The data comes from 1099-B filings, which brokerages file with the IRS with each trade, but which the IRS doesn’t share with the SEC:

https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-irs-files-trading-competitors-stock

Here are some examples:

Ohio billionaire August Troendle, CEO of Medpace, repeatedly bought and sold shares of $Syneos — his company’s archrival, timing the transactions with a management shakeup that dropped the stock by 16% in one day, and an SEC investigation that crushed Syneos’s stock by 25%. His precision timing made him at least $2.3m in profit.

Isaac Larian, CEO of Bratz-maker MGA, made $28m trading shares in Mattel, MGA’s nemesis and frequent litigant — during a period when Mattel stock crashed by 57% (!). Larian boasts that “I made a LOT more money shorting Mattel stock than they did running a $4.5 billion toy company.”

Larian’s trades also involved some very precise timing. Sometimes, he took positions just before his own company announced its upcoming products, and others positions immediately preceded major disclosures from Mattel. Larian’s subordinates told Propublica that he is “is a boss with an endless appetite for information about his company and its competitors, constantly grilling subordinates on minutiae about the industry.”

Larian couldn’t explain the timing of these trades. His lawyer told Propublica that it was “false and defamatory” to suggest that he “possessed material, nonpublic information that Larian knew was obtained in breach of a duty.”

Next up is Gerald Boelte, founder and chair of the massive oil company LLOG. LLOG partners with other companies for its oil drilling. Companies like Stone Energy. Boelte bought a huge position in Stone the day before the company’s 2015 earnings report, in which they revealed an increase their reserves’ value, pulling in a 65% one day profit. He’d never bought shares in Stone before.

Boetle told Propublica, “I do not and have never traded on any material, non-public information of competitors, business partners or others… Any implication that I was investing based upon advance knowledge is therefore clearly false.”

Jim Sankey is CEO of Invue. He bought $3.2m worth of shares in his rival Checkpoint, while checkpoint was in secret negotiations to be acquired by CCL Industries. Sankey was already thoroughly connected to Checkpoint, having sold a $150m product line to them in 2007. There’s no record that he’d ever traded Checkpoint before. He made $2.3m. Sankey says “he did not know Checkpoint was going to be acquired.” He says that his company was not approached by Checkpoint as a potential acquirer.

Barry Wish was a board member of Ocwen, a company he co-founded. After the Great Financial Crisis, Ocwen bid unsuccessfully to buy $215b worth of Bank of America mortgages. The winning bidder was Nationstar. Three weeks before Nationstar’s winning bid was announced, Wish bought $600k worth of Nationstar shares. After the bid was announced, he sold them for for a $157k profit.

Wish told Propublica that he never traded competitors’ stock: “No, not at all.” Propublica read him the details of the trade from his leaked 1099-B. He said “You might see it, but I don’t have any recollection” and hung up.

Steven Grossman is a cardboard heir — a nepobaby who inherited Southern Container Corp from his grandpa. After he sold the company to Rock-Tenn for $1b in 2013, he stayed on as a senior exec. Over the next 5 years, he traded large blocks of shares in Rock-Tenn’s competitors, companies like Temple-Inland, a company that he made a 37% profit on after its acquisition was announced in 2011, one week after Grossman started buying its shares.

Grossman falsely told Propublica, “I haven’t traded stock since then.” IRS records show that Grossman continued to trade. Grossman also told Propublica that he had no role with Rock-Tenn, despite being on their payroll for five years. When asked about his extremely lucky timing buying and selling Temple-Inland, he said “That was 10 years ago” and hung up.

As Propublica’s Robert Faturechi and Ellis Simani write, Securities regulations have their origins in the crash of 1929, and the subsequent collapse in confidence in markets and capitalism, the sense that the system was rigged for the wealthy and political insiders. That is a pretty good summation of sentiment today:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-les-guillotines/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout

It’s not just that corporate executives are corrupt, it’s that they’re lavishly, shamelessly, endlessly, incorrigibly corrupt. Take Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, the sixth- and seventh-largest Class I railroads in the USA, whose merger was just approved by the Surface Transportation Board.

There are plenty of good reasons for the STB to have blocked this merger. The rail industry is already excessively concentrated, and its top execs are so convinced that they’re both too big to fail and too big to jail that they’re rendering entire towns permanently uninhabitable in order to eke out a few more points in profit:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/11/dinah-wont-you-blow/#ecp

But there are specific reasons to have blocked this merger, starting with the whistleblower report about CP and KCS executives illegally coming together for a three-day “retreat” at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach, a notorious site for Republican operatives to collude with the business lobby:

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2023-03-16-canadian-pacific-kansas-city-southern-rail-merger/

As Luke Goldstein writes for The American Prospect, both companies spent millions in 2020 and 2022 on campaign contributions to “grease the skids” for the merger — in particular, ensuring that the combined company could transport Alberta tar sands oil (the filthiest, most energy intensive oil in the world) to US ports.

Though the STB was informed of the illegal meeting — in which the two companies behaved as though the merger had already been finalized — STB chair Martin Oberman told Goldstein that the Board did not write to the companies for an explanation before waving through their merger.

Instead, Oberman dismissed the complaint on the grounds that “Railroads have to be able to talk to one another to function.” Typically this takes place over a free phone call, though — not on a three-day executive junket at a hotel where the rooms run $1,500/night.

Oberman knows what happened at that meeting.

Everybody knows.

It comes as no surprise to learn that before FTX imploded and destroyed the savings of its depositors, it paid out $3b to its top executives, including the criminal Sam Bankman-Fried:

https://gizmodo.com/sbf-ftx-crypto-sam-bankman-fried-1850232043

It comes as no surprise that Silicon Valley Bank paid out bonuses to its execs and employees hours before it collapsed:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-employees-received-bonuses-hours-before-takeover.html

Everybody knows.

It’s comforting to think that the tax code loopholes that the ultrawealthy exploit are an epiphenomenon of complexity, an unavoidable consequence of the technical requirements of a big regulation that spans 300m+ people. But the truth is, the loopholes in the US tax code were inserted by politicians who got massive campaign contributions from donors who directly benefited from those loopholes. Senator Ron Johnson got $20m from the owners of Uline (Dick and Liz Uihlein) and roofing magnate Diane Hendricks, then he blocked the Trump tax bill until his fellow lawmakers inserted a loophole that produced $215m for the Uihleins and Hendricks, in just the first year:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the-canada-variant/#shitty-man-of-history-theory It’s not even surprising that a sitting US Senator amended a bill to give hundreds of millions of dollars to billionaires who gave him tens of millions of dollars.

Everybody knows. It’s weirdly comforting to think that everyday people vote for demagogue wreckers because Facebook hired a legion of evil sorcerers to fashion a mind-control ray out of Big Data and AI, but Facebook lies about everything, and everyone who ever claimed to have a mind-control ray was a liar.

Maybe people vote for demagogue wreckers because they believe the system is rotten, and maybe they believe the system is rotten because the system is rotten. Maybe the self-described evil sorcerers of Big Tech aren’t “hacking our dopamine loops” — maybe they’re just helping opportunists target people who are justifiably angry:

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

The problem with this explanation is that it requires “progressive” parties to actually do stuff to demonstrate that they are on the side of people, not the side of paperclip-maximizing immortal colony organisms and the corporate executives who pretend to run them:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1184004730722217984

I try to have hope — that is, I try to believe that if we can only make changes to our material circumstances, however small they may seem, that we might attain a new vantagepoint that reveals more possible changes within our grasp:

https://gen.medium.com/hope-not-optimism-943e88291b

Some days, it’s hard to have hope. Some days, it’s so obvious that everybody knows, all that I can muster is fury. Fury is not a full substitute for hope, but it’ll do. It’s a far superior alternative to the fatalism that “everybody knows” and thus nothing can be done.

Some fights you win, and other fights, you just fight, because surrender isn’t an option. Everybody knows, right? If everybody knows, then everybody might just decide to do something about it.

Next Monday (Mar 20), I’m doing a remote talk for the Ostrom Workshop’s Beyond the Web Speaker Series.

[Image ID: A smoke-filled room lit by candles. Around a large formal table sit various 19th century gentlemen-type people. One of them stands and reads from a memo. The shadow he casts is in the shape of a dollar-sign.]

[palatteflags]

Captain Schwanhelt Bulge from Galaxy Railways based moodboard~ ^^ For an anon!! Hope your friends like the boards a bunch!

Want one? Send an ask! -mod Jay

[ladychandraofthemoone]

What is Ashima's story in this universe, considering that she's now owned by the CFR?

Hi! 👋

Ashima’s story is quite peaceful, she was well taken care of even when times were difficult and tough (here she won the shunting competition for the metre gauge section so she earned money and gold.) Since sodor at this point didn’t have any metre gauge sections yet unless you count the Safari Park (The Pier Railway/“Spirited Away” 3ft line where Hiro and Gator I’m still thinking on when it was bulit but my take Ashima loves going high up and the thrill of it all so I feel like she’ll eventually get tired of the flatness despite it being in the sea.

I got mainly inspired by demonofnowhere’s take on her especially with her struggles with her identity hence for her desire to stand out, and is self-conscious about her appearance but then she sees others and is slowly learning to accept herself. She and Thomas are penapls and kept chatting even when Ashima and some of the other engines were on flatbeds and kept at the museums cause of what was mentioned above and Ashima just loved the change in scenery.

The Culdee Fell Railway is actually quite longer in my instead of the actually 4ft irl ( I say it’s about 10ft-12ft) so when Ashima decides to stay to help them out, Crovan’s Gate Works just degauged her so she can fit and made her able to work there.

[thegreatyin]

giggling kicking my feet blushing madly

[bonguri]

20240719 Iida line 1 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: 飯田線の乗り鉄旅。名古屋から飯田駅まで高速バスで移動してからの飯田駅。 Photo taken at Iida station, Iida city, Nagano pref.