mango:

a tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry

Along with intramodal mergers, intermodal carrier buy outs and diversification into businesses completely divorced from transportation, rail megacarriers continue the "rationalization* of their lines.

[H]e rubbed [his hands] with Bag Balm to help the cuts heal and keep the skin soft, a trick he'd learned from his grandmother, who told him when he was eighteen and getting ready for a date that no woman wanted to feel rough hands scratching up her chichis.