They're gonna have to create a better idea of scariness to help those in need of useless junk to feed on.

Originally posted by Muundoggie
I'm not discounting the fact that these boxcars are real but IF they are for new car transport then why are there no pictures to show this? Surely this is not secret information that can't be photographed. I would like to see pictures with cars being loaded into them.
And why would FEMA need these "auto" transporting boxcars? Are they going to be going in "auto" transport business?
Why are they being stored in remote areas? Shouldn't they be transporting "autos" if that's what they are for?

Get on google earth and zoom in on Port of Los Angles there is a virtual graveyard of brand new cars sitting at the port. I saw some pics of it last year and it was building up everyday they had an area several acres long just packed. There is also the samething on the east coast but not sure of the ports where it is over there. That would be the why of the "auto" box cars being stored.

Originally posted by Michelle129

Perhaps people are seeing them abandoned or in odd rural places because there are not as many cars to be transported these days...

I was just thinking the same thing. With the auto industry completely crumbling right now, no one is buying cars. With no one buying cars, there's no need to transport them from ports or manufacturers. As a result, they would not be needed. The downside with train cars is that you can't just let them sit in populated areas because they'd block the train cars that do need to get through. Rural places where there are extra tracks seem like an obvious choice for storage of train cars that aren't needed. FEMA could probably use aircraft that aren't being currently used for the same purpose if you think about it. There are thousands of perfectly good aircraft sitting at out-of-the-way airports because they don't need them right now.

It's something to think about.

Originally posted by bpg131313
The downside with train cars is that you can't just let them sit in populated areas because they'd block the train cars that do need to get through. Rural places where there are extra tracks seem like an obvious choice for storage of train cars that aren't needed.

You are exactly correct. Railroads will store assets (freight cars) at remote locations rather than clog up busier terminals and yards. I know that in northern Wisconsin there are a number of little-used sidings stuffed with storage cas. In another example, a few years back we stuffed 150+ BRAND NEW coal hoppers onto a spur in the middle of nowhere for storage. Seems the utility company that owned them didn't need them immediately and wanted to take the tax write-off for storing them.

Who even makes shackles these days? I know there are a few specialty manufacturers who make awesome chrome handcuffs for happily married couples. (How do I know this? I have used the Internet for more than five minutes.)

But is there a high-volume shackle manufacturer out there jumping up and down because they scored a huge government contract? Hmmm...

I have just recently been reading the whats going on yellowstone board....then read this one.
in a way i have to say that the gov...would have something ready in the case of a big disaster. they need to put the "uprisers" down...as many as they can.
of course, no one is going to be happy with the gov if something unexpected (or even expected) happens, and of course some people will be angry an ol uncle sam...think big people.....

Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler

Civilian Federal Inmates are broken into 6 categories, home custody, community custody, minimum (low) security, medium security, high security (maximum) and Super Maximum Security. Community custody inmates are kept on Navy, Air Force and Army Bases in segregated portions of the camp. They live in converted dormitories with unlocked doors, and have free roam of a section of the base during non-work hours, except for the six official counts a day when they either have to be in their rooms, or at their work station. It is called community custody because many of them are bussed daily without shackles or guards to smaller satellite military facilities to work in mostly menial jobs for a dollar a day. The rest of the time they are free to utilize the same type of recreation available to the Military personnel on the base, are often fed the same food the Military Officers on the base are, and if they have serious skills that can be used sometimes even given command of military work details and security clearances. It’s what’s known as Club Fed, and if you are a non violent offender, with 10 years or less to serve, and are giving that type of facility recommendation at sentencing that is where they place you. I highly recommend it for anyone who has a wife and five kids, and can’t get a wood be robber to shoot you!

while i have no knowledge one way or the other on rex-84 or whatever it is, i can say that at least one part of this post is garbage. (sorry...) There are no prisoner camps on military bases with the exception of "restricted" barracks which consist of military servicemen who have found themselves under NJP Punishment for doing somehting dumb. i have been stationed on/ a guest of multitudes of military bases from Chambers field, Langley AFB, Keesler AFB, NAS Fallon, NAS Oceana, FT Eustis, Little Creek, NAS Pensicola, Jaxonville, Camp David, NAS Bahrain, Naples, Rota, even Jebel Ali in Dubai (its called the sand box, not much of a military staion... lol)

there are NO US civilian prisoners of any security on any military base.

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and on the pictures... i have been digging and digging. unless the US contracted for several different versions of these doom cars, there seems to be a discontinuity amongst exactly which cars have the shackles. Some of the pictures i saw were pictures of FEMA emergency trailers like the ones i seen in Biloxi right after katrina (and are still there with people still in em.... :barf others look very similar to livestock cars or auto transport cars.

I still cannot seem to find a reason for there to be glass windows in a prisoner car.. but i am no prison car engineer.

and as far as the guillotines go... i can think of a million and one less messy and/or desease prone ways (not to mention effective) to irradicate people in mass quantity. I am not a neo nazi nor do i in any way advocate it, but the ovens of WW-II were about the most efficient way to get things done. fuel costs were covered by the gold and silver in the teeth that were left in the ashes of thier remains.... (*shiver*)

if anything inhumane was being designed and TPTB were using prison cars for it, i would tend to believe (and hope for) mass transit of illegal immigrants to somewhere outside the US. ....... lets hope anyway.

-A

I haven't read all of the replies to this thread and am too tired to tonight, but I read this article again today and bounced it off of a co-worker who too said the site seems a little crack-pot'ish if you will. Almost like the guy was jumping to a list of conclusions with little evidence. Just an opinion.