If you want to hitch your steam train to the back of an Amtrak train and have it towed then you can follow the same rules as a private car.
If you want to actually drive your steam train then you'd need to negotiate with the track owner, which may be hard, particularly if they run on PTC (there's literally one ERTMS-compliant steam train in the world, for example). There's no public right of way on railway tracks for randoms, only for Amtrak (and even they have limits).
That particular train seems to have an arrangement with Amtrak where they run Amtrak services sometimes. But it will certainly be the result of a bespoke negotiation.
ask UP - I'm sure they will agree to run big boy for you for a price. I'd guess $100k/day but I'm not going to ask. Of course if you have something historic and are going where they want to show off big boy anyway it could be much less.
Well, the fuel - typically coal - heats a big container of water to the boiling point. The vapor is collected, and used as a force (because steam expands) to move the pistons, just like the ones moved by gas explosions in your car.
Then the conductor pulls the chain, and the train makes that whistle sound and spouts a lot of white smoke, which means you are nearing an old-timey town.
>As Certified B Corporations and leaders of this emerging economy, we believe:
> That we must be the change we seek in the world.
> That all business ought to be conducted as if people and place mattered.
> That, through their products, practices, and profits, businesses should aspire to do no harm and benefit all.
> To do so requires that we act with the understanding that we are each dependent upon another and thus responsible for each other and future generations.
I worked at one. The BCorp label seemed to do a lot of good in establishing organisational culture and attracting people who were a good fit. The organisation did (and still does) a lot of good.
For a bit more color here: a B Corp designation really is just a marketing tool. Unlike the name implies, it's not some special corporate structure, it's just a certification you pay some company to get and pinky promise that you'll be good.
Nonprofits and public benefit corporations at least have some "teeth" to them: they both allow you (in different ways) to do things that aren't directly in the interest of your fiduciary duties, and that single-minded money chasing is what incentives a lot of "bad" corporate behavior.
For those big corps, the large sum of money is mostly hiring consultants to fill the paperwork needed to pass the certification
But what I see here in France is mostly young companies getting certified as a proof of them being built better than the big ones that they are competing with
For instance, most of the new IT consultancoies are B Corp certified and promote it a lot, even though they work for the same customers as the big old ones
So now there are companies that are getting rid of their B Corp cert because they say it lost its meaning and being BCC is getting more and more a sign of being a bad company doing virtue signaling
Overall I think that business certifications can't work above a certain scale, because then they become just a hoop that needs to be addressed and not an actual engagement leading every business decisions.
I wrote B corps an email highlighting the issue and asking if this actions align with their principles.
They seem to be very busy. It seems showing that your corporation accompanies positive social impact, fairness, and responsibility is in high demand.
> Thank you for reaching out and for you interest in the B Corp Movement! Despite our high ambition for an inclusive, equitable and regenerative economic system for all people and the planet; we are still a small team. So kindly allow us to come back to you within 2-3 weeks
> Due to a high level of inquiries recently, it may take us longer than usual to respond to your message. We will answer questions in the order received. Response times may be up to 2 weeks.
>As our [1978] trial started, witness after witness from security sites tried to claim that openly published information was in fact secret. In a typical interchange, one Sigint unit chief was shown a road sign outside his base:
> Q: Is that the name of your unit?
> A: I cannot answer that question, that is a secret.
> Q: Is that the board which passers-by on the main road see outside your unit’s base?
> A: Yes.
> Q: Read it out to the jury, please.
> A: I cannot do that. It is a secret.
>Official panic set in. The foreign secretary who GCHQ had bullied into having us accused of spying wrote that “almost any accommodation is to be preferred” to allowing our trial to continue. A Ministry of Defense report in September 1978, now released, disclosed that the “prosecuting counsel has come to the view that there have been so many published references to the information Campbell has acquired and the conclusions he has drawn from it that the chances of success with [the collection charge] are not good.”
>My lawyer overheard the exasperated prosecutor saying that he would allow the government to continue with the espionage charge against me “over [his] dead body.” The judge, a no-nonsense Welsh lawyer, was also fed up with the secrecy pantomime. He demanded the government scrap the espionage charges. They did.
GCHQ and Me, My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers -- Duncan Campbell
https://bikerouter.de/ is running brouter-web and has some gravel routing profiles installed. The FFMbyBicycle profile has an experimental car-avoiding option.
>Are “consent or pay” business models compliant with data protection law?
>“Consent or pay” models can be compliant with data protection law if you can demonstrate that people can freely give their consent and the models meet the other requirements set out in the law. This guidance provides a set of factors to assess whether people can freely give their consent or not in the context of a “consent or pay” model.
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