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Marcin Wichary
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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Leslie Molson‏ @lesliemolson 21 Jul 2018
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      Leslie Molson Retweeted Marcin Wichary

      Any ideas, @JimbauxsJournal?https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1020694766105722887 …

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      Marcin Wichary @mwichary
      (My next goal is to find a railway museum where a tour guide could explain all of the strange markings and words on train cars and locomotives, and the stories behind them.) pic.twitter.com/ljdO9GurWW
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    2. J B X‏ @JimbauxsJournal 21 Jul 2018
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      1.) @mwichary The car was build in September 1975. The "BLT" is how you tell the age of the car. "LUB" is for lube or lubrication. "INSP" is for inspection.

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    3. J B X‏ @JimbauxsJournal 21 Jul 2018
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      2.) The colored bar-code-looking thing is just that, a bar code, just like on any item that you buy at the grocery store. It is the unique identifier for that particular piece of rolling stock, a way to track it as it moves throughout the continent.

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    4. J B X‏ @JimbauxsJournal 21 Jul 2018
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      3.) It has since been replaced by something that is far less eye-catching, a little laser-read device covered in a small piece of plastic. Modern railroads have "readers" along the track to record movements of rolling stock, and shippers can check on their shipments this way.

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    5. J B X‏ @JimbauxsJournal 21 Jul 2018
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      4.) Employees being on roofs of equipment could cause problems! It's an obvious safety hazard. The need to make the admonition likely is due to old habits being hard to break, as employees once needed to be on roofs to brake the equipment.

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Jul 2018
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      Whoa, that’s awesome, thank you. Why was braking on roofs once? Was it where the levers or controls were?

      9:18 AM - 21 Jul 2018
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        2. J B X‏ @JimbauxsJournal 21 Jul 2018
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          Yes, before Westinghouse invented the automatic brake about a century before, the cars had to be braked while the train was moving, and one brakeman was assigned to a certain part of the train and had to walk via the roofs from one car to another to loosen or tighten the brakes.

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Jul 2018
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          Jesus.

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