{"id":111096,"date":"2016-03-06T13:21:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T13:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/06\/heavvymetalqueen\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T04:06:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T04:06:18","slug":"heavvymetalqueen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/06\/heavvymetalqueen\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-111096 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/06\/heavvymetalqueen\/attachment\/111097\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o2xd17kJFj1rasnq9o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o2xd17kJFj1rasnq9o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o2xd17kJFj1rasnq9o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/heavvymetalqueen.tumblr.com\/post\/140240288224\" target=\"_blank\">heavvymetalqueen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/official-german-translationen.tumblr.com\/post\/140036309723\" target=\"_blank\">official-german-translationen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/official-sachsen.tumblr.com\/post\/140033115841\" target=\"_blank\">official-sachsen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/official-german-translationen.tumblr.com\/post\/140032431423\" target=\"_blank\">official-german-translationen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/allthingsgerman.tumblr.com\/post\/140031737992\" target=\"_blank\">allthingsgerman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/official-german-translationen.tumblr.com\/post\/140030295118\" target=\"_blank\">official-german-translationen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bibliophile20.tumblr.com\/post\/139990624907\" target=\"_blank\">bibliophile20<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/darthflake.tumblr.com\/post\/139990198837\" target=\"_blank\">darthflake<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/badjewess.tumblr.com\/post\/139989551351\" target=\"_blank\">badjewess<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kaza999.tumblr.com\/post\/139988336099\" target=\"_blank\">kaza999<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ahiddenkitty.tumblr.com\/post\/139960692028\" target=\"_blank\">ahiddenkitty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mothraesthetic.tumblr.com\/post\/139943325411\" target=\"_blank\">mothraesthetic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fandork.tumblr.com\/post\/139943189198\" target=\"_blank\">fandork<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mothraesthetic.tumblr.com\/post\/139943055496\" target=\"_blank\">mothraesthetic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fandork.tumblr.com\/post\/139941913223\" target=\"_blank\">fandork<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dorksidefiker.tumblr.com\/post\/139939845979\" target=\"_blank\">dorksidefiker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iandsharman.tumblr.com\/post\/139939602684\" target=\"_blank\">iandsharman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sebpatrick.tumblr.com\/post\/139838009706\" target=\"_blank\">sebpatrick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/merseytart.tumblr.com\/post\/139806604048\" target=\"_blank\">merseytart<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eddus.tumblr.com\/post\/139805686377\" target=\"_blank\">eddus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lostinmiami.tumblr.com\/post\/139804793702\" target=\"_blank\">lostinmiami<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eddus.tumblr.com\/post\/139803734422\" target=\"_blank\">eddus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mapsontheweb.tumblr.com\/post\/139802831160\" target=\"_blank\">mapsontheweb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A map of about every primary passenger railway in the USA for 2016, commuter rail included.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Surely there are more trains lines about than this ?!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nope. We\u2019re animals. I\u2019ve only trailed by train twice in the U.S., and it was the same line, once DC to Philadelphia, and once DC to NYC for work once I discovered the train was two hours faster than flying and cabbing back into NYC.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I do forget though that you guys fly everywhere and trains might not be practical. I live on an island the size of one of your states !<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fun fact: the busiest railway station in America (Penn Station in New York City) gets fewer passengers than Liverpool Central.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I knew the US had a much less extensive rail infrastructure than us, but bloody hell, the fact that there are ENTIRE STATES that literally don\u2019t have passenger rail is madness.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d still love to travel on it some time, mind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just imagine the jobs you could create by building a decent railway system!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Behold, the end result of graft and political corruption.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I had no idea most of the US had no regional lines? Like, I live in tiny little MA with one of those clusters of red. Does everybody else have to DRIVE???<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>yes. we drive. and it\u2019s terrible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>D:  This is actually distressing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>to be fair some cities do have good bus systems<\/p>\n<p>but\u2026.yeah.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>what the shuddering fuck? \u00a0That\u2019s IT?! \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>actually we used to have a lot more, but as far as i\u2019m aware i\u2019m pretty sure the car companies bought a lot of railways and then destroyed them to force people to buy cars<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also some of those states that don\u2019t have rails also have more cows than people.<\/p>\n<p>Also our trains are slow and it\u2019s usually much faster to drive than to take a train.  We don\u2019t have those speed rail things.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WAIT WHAT? THAT IS ALL?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There used to be more (map of train tracks <a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latinamericanstudies.org%2F19-century%2Frailroads-1870.jpg&amp;t=ZmU2MDhkYjNmZGJmN2ZkZGUzMWJkNWU1ZjczYmNiY2ZiZWY5NTI3ZSxwdUxXWVNKSA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">1870 <\/a>&amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F3c%2F57%2Fee%2F3c57eeffb7e1a3c7869196d7c1a39cea.jpg&amp;t=ZTBmZDJjMGZkNjQzYjJjYWQ4MzdmZmVmMzc4Zjg4MGVkMGU1NjgxYSxwdUxXWVNKSA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">1890<\/a>), but, as @kaza999 pointed out, alot of it was destroyed on purpose by General Motors in the firsty half of the 1900s to, ahem, pave the way for the primacy of the car. \u00a0And, since then, <a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fboingboing.net%2F2015%2F05%2F19%2Famericas-terrible-trains-are.html&amp;t=YWY1YWNiMjZkMWYzZGQ5YWM0NTQ4OGQ1NTcyNGUzNWI5NTI4OGNlYyxwdUxXWVNKSA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">any investment in rail infrastructure (or any infrastructure at all, for that matter) has been opposed on ideological grounds by the conservative wing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When you suddenly understand Sheldon\u2019s train enthusiasm<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And then there\u2019s Europe:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/fcdd51353705faa160a96264ec0acf96\/tumblr_inline_o35v94CDEY1r7gwfo_540.jpg\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>And because that looks a tiny bit cluttered (and because we\u2019re a German blog), here\u2019s a railway map of Germany:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/cbabc7a2aaf2e65253471411252f08e1\/tumblr_inline_o35vejJPwt1r7gwfo_540.png\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In red are the high speed InterCityExpress lines, blue are the InterCity lines and the grey ones are smaller regional lines.<\/p>\n<p>And for Americans who don\u2019t know how large Germany is: It is half the size of Texas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Consider that this map does not show local lines, for example:<br \/>This is Hamburg<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/581e6aaa74896cfffe19adbae150c3a1\/tumblr_inline_o35vvxwwVS1rr916q_540.jpg\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>This is Berlin<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/cfbeb05b755609294bd743b092a6ab83\/tumblr_inline_o35vy4l5bs1rr916q_540.jpg\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>This is Cologne<\/p>\n<figure>External image<\/figure>\n<p>And this is Munich<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/2b4d5ea347f14224feac062e08070486\/tumblr_inline_o35w3p3zvf1rr916q_540.jpg\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>(Aesthetic.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>this is Dresden (bus&amp;tram)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/c7379419396dddd05a129f62ce987289\/tumblr_inline_o35x0cZ3BJ1t6abk5_540.jpg\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>and we have\u00a0\u201conly\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>525.105 inhabitants<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/b67386762f021ca8192d954b3f7c18bc\/tumblr_inline_o360hvklSL1rr916q_540.jpg\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember being weirded out when Fred told me she\u2019d never been on an actual train before traveling to Europe but now I understand<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>heavvymetalqueen: official-german-translationen: official-sachsen: official-german-translationen: allthingsgerman: official-german-translationen: bibliophile20: darthflake: badjewess: kaza999: ahiddenkitty: mothraesthetic: fandork: mothraesthetic: fandork: dorksidefiker: iandsharman: sebpatrick: merseytart: eddus: lostinmiami: eddus: mapsontheweb: A map of about every primary passenger railway in the USA for 2016, commuter rail included. Surely there are more trains lines about than this ?! Nope. We\u2019re animals. I\u2019ve only trailed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/06\/heavvymetalqueen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13526,983,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111098,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111096\/revisions\/111098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}