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To: Crocodile who wrote (50893)	5/21/2000 9:23:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) of 71178

It would, maybe, be interesting to stick 700 cameras on the belly of a train, and ID every sound of wheel and track. You know, ruin it for everyone. Make a new profession. Put sixty at crossings. So where the cars wait, and on summer nights everyone awake sits there and hears and listens really closely at some point. Sheer boredom, you know. So then you put up a little digital screen that displays the exact items making the clack. Or uses laser pointers to highlight them. (This would be a more modern crossing.) We'd need a crew of people who could name noises....that could be the hardest part....might enlist some oldtimers, who must have had to describe an irregularity in the clippershink. Tink. "Round Boise, the hink got noisy. I heard a tip tip tunk." [Gasps from the Foreman.] (Where the heck is the funding? When you need it?) "This is The Orange Blossom Special. The real one." Maybe name them after special engineers. "Upper Clef Jeff." "Swing Low Spindle." "Hot Box Chatter" "Tacoma Tweedle." Grease Pocket." Develop Engine Ears. Just a thot. Get everybody on the same page, and/or ruin it.

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