Marvelously Crazy

This “notice” is posted in the window of the former Marvelous Market. It is complete and splendid jibberish.

There is no such thing as the “Right of Way Authority”. Or the Federal Registry System. 40 Mass Ave. is Union Station, which is where the “Railroad Police” might be expected to locate, if they were real too. There are such people as railroad police officers, but they work under the banner of their specific organization, like the Amtrak Police or the Union Pacific Police. There’s no federal “Railroad Police” agency. 425 1/2 North Broad St., Philadelphia is the address of a “RR Reading Railroad”, which was formed in 2014 and has two employees. This presumably has nothing to do with the famous Reading Railroad, which went bankrupt in the 1970s.

49 U.S.C. 20157 states that all railroad systems will adopt positive traction control by December 31, 2015. (This is a system that helps prevent train crashes). 18 U.S.C. 13 is about federal jurisdiction over waterways. The other citations are roughly in line with the context, yet ultimately don’t really stand together as any cogent legal thought.

All this is to say that this flyer taped to the window of the Marvelous Market is the product of a troubled mind. But it sure is a fascinatingly troubled mind. A similar flyer was on the former Grill Kabob restaurant at 33rd and M.

What either property has to do with the railroad system is beyond GM.