GR translation: trains full of their own hanging off the cars that lumber overhead

[David Morris]

I think this imagery is a amalgam of many historic modes of egress from war
zones. All of these people are fleeing in whatever mode is available in
their own times. So, no, there are no train tracks above the Autobahn.

David Morris

On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V549.36-550.3   . . . caravans of Gypsies, axles or linchpins failing,
> horses dying, families leaving the vehicles beside the roads for others to
> come live in a night, a day, over the white hot Autobahns, trains full of
> their own hanging off the cars that lumber overhead, squeezing aside for
> army convoys when they come through, . . .
>
> So the Gypsy caravans are on the Autobahn, there are train tracks running
> above the Autobahn, and the caravans have to squeeze aside when army
> convoys come through.  Is this the correct picture here, or did I
> misunderstand completely?
>
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