Reply #40: And the engineer is thinking,

[Rabrrrrrr]

Do we really need to bring an economist, a physicist, and a mathematician into the country? Wouldn't it be more efficient to bring just me and the phycisist? And hasn't the railroad done any statistical analyses of riding data and realized that they could have used just 6 passenger cars, and not 7? How much money would they have saved on fuel by eliminating the unneeded car? Unless they HAVE done analyses, and are bringing the extra car beccuase they actually need it for a run somewhere else and this was the most economical and efficient way to get it to the needed starting point, in which case the railroad company is genius for thinking of it... and that cow, that brown one - what's the purpose of the brown coloring? Is it brown because it's ancestors needed a better heat retention coloration....


Sorry folks, but as engineer I can say, that's what our minds are ALWAYS thinking.