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Tractive effort
Emus can't even fly, let alone pull trains.
Emus???
When I was in middle school, I had a student teacher who had gone to Australia. She said that emus weren't smart at all and would run straight into fences, not even TRYING to miss them.
EMUs
Electric Multiple Units, like their Diesel Multiple Units counterparts, are trains with no locomotive and localised (one or more motorised carriages pull one or more non-motorised carriages) or distributed (all carriages have motors), all controlled from a driving position at either end of the train.
Down with electrics
I did my initial trainspotting on the Oxted line. Bloody Fairburn 2-6-4T's but their exhaust could blow your ears off.
Ear-MUs
[Rosie] I think we all need some proof of this aural sectioning that you experienced...
*waves from war-torn Paris*
(Bis) The interior of Riddlesdown Tunnel is littered with severed, now largely decomposed, auditory appendages. They are, or were, mine.
[nights] on holiday in the City of Light burning cars?
Yesterday was apparently the warmest day globally since records began. Here in B it was colder than normal, but amazingly windy.
(Bis) Ackshully it was the month of June that was the warmest month in a rather precisely defined area known as Central England. It was also the warmest, unsurprisingly, that I have personally recorded here at Plas Huws (= Hughes Hall) over the 40 years I have been an amateur weather nut and before that a professional one. Gotta be precise.
So tired of this . . .
I wish I could be back in my home, but it's not ready yet. It's not even ready for living in one room. My contractor is trying to get it so I have a room and a bathroom and there's air conditioning and the outside is all okay. My vinyl siding was shipped, but delayed the last I heard.
[KS] oh my... we should bake a cake for the third(?) anniversary of the demise of your house. What's taking so long?
[Bis] Just passing through, back home now in lovely Strasbourg where no-one cares enough to set fire to anything...
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