• Abrslam
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    I worked for for the railroad. Nothing is fixed ever. I witnessed hundreds of code violations every day for years. Doesn’t matter if a rail car or locomotive meets code as long as it “can travel” its good to go.

    When an employee inspector finds a defective rail car management determines if it will get fixed. If the supervisor “feels” like “it’s not that bad” then the rail car is “let go”.

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      Oh, so like ambulances in the USA.

      “The ambulance had issues making it unsafe (or even illegal) to drive? But it can still drive down the road? Doesn’t seem too bad: keep an eye on it.

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        You’d think they’d have money to keep it pristine, with how much a short ambulance ride costs in the USA

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          With the amount of money a 3 mile ambulance trip costs, you could buy a beater car and drive yourself there.

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          Just like hospitals, that money is going straight to the top and staying there.

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      US? Or somewhere else? Not saying that it doesn’t happen other places just curious.

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        The use of ‘railroad’ instead of ‘railway’ would seem to indicate American English

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          There’s three ways to do a job. The right way, the wrong way, and the rail way. Also it was the great white north!