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The conversation continues on the cabin’s rickety porch, witnessed only by a symphony of crickets, cicadas and the occasional freight train passing in the night.
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Rachel Hale, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Doing that is like trying to stop a freight train.
—Annie Heilbrunn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
In short, the wheels are not falling off the freight train.
—Dryden Pence, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
In June, a Tesla in FSD mode drove itself onto a set of train tracks in eastern Pennsylvania and was hit minutes later by a Norfolk Southern freight train, according to local authorities who spoke with the driver.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 16 Sep. 2025
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Rachel Hale, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Doing that is like trying to stop a freight train.
—Annie Heilbrunn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
In short, the wheels are not falling off the freight train.
—Dryden Pence, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
In June, a Tesla in FSD mode drove itself onto a set of train tracks in eastern Pennsylvania and was hit minutes later by a Norfolk Southern freight train, according to local authorities who spoke with the driver.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Freight train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freight%20train. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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