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Trains, transit, industrial & social history. Museum nerd. Infrastructure Week enthusiast. Minnesotan transplant, geriatric millennial, he/him

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Find you a man who looks at you like Steve Trevor looks at @wmata

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@who_shot_jgr All hail the Glow Cloud

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@Null82415144 @who_shot_jgr Lac-Mégantic would say hi, if, well, you know.

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311 in your teens
vs
311 in your thirties

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@timjhogan Lotta people saying Jensen likes Walz’ smile, but maybe it’s not why you think

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1600 cars, $1m per EMU car with a top speed of 100 mph (110 mph on test), but @Amtrak can barely reequip with the Siemens Venture for $2.5m/car.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

The Marathwada Rail Coach Factory at Latur, Maharashtra will manufacture nearly 1,600 coaches for the upgraded Vande Bharat trains with each costing 8 crore to 9 crore - Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

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A brief history of the "Dan Patch Line" (Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern Railway). Seen here is DT-6-6-2000 #23 in service on May 20, 1971. Bob Johnson photo. https://t.co/zj1iKgNiFB

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@peterlewis_jpg @RAILMag In an ideal world, the state of Illinois (or Amtrak) would’ve owned the Alton since the UP/SP merger and lease freight space back to the UP.

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@Ray_Phenicie @alanthefisher But also yes, bus service is a disaster just on the Detroit side.

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@Ray_Phenicie @alanthefisher Three bus systems if you count Transit Windsor; also, I don’t even know whose auspices the Tunnel Bus falls under. Obvious immediate answer is international bus service in the tunnel, on the Ambo & the future Howe, plus a casino ferry. Ideal future service would include LRT.

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A very young coworker just described Labor Day as “the yassification of American labor” and tbh that’s the best description I’ve ever heard

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@dick_nixon You could just pin the phrase, “I’m not going to read the Brooks thing” and retweet it as necessary, sir.

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@DocMcDoom @dick_nixon As long as they’re co-conspirators, yes

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@thejoshp Generally yes, most countries either separate their passenger and freight service onto separate lines, or give priority to passenger trains where they share tracks. The US and Canada are largely unique in freight having the priority.

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This neatly describes the difference between American passenger railroading and world (in this case Indian 🇮🇳) passenger railroading: we’re stuck in our glory days of the 1950s, they’re building thousands of miles of state-of-the-art HSR. @americanrails @IndianTechGuide

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*arf*

Good dog

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If I say “Sit, Ubu, sit,” do you know what I mean?

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@americanrails Wow, they did a lot of work to that USRA Light Mikado didn’t they.

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@DougJBalloon We’re discounting the possibility that @DougJBalloon is a sock puppet for @jmartNYT

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@ImClaaara @JosefFortier @csilverandgold The supply chain is overwhelmingly controlled by the Radical Right though, either on a command level (ex: Uline) or on the individual truck driver level. Couple that with the obvious police sympathy for anti-liberal causes and you can see how cities could be blockaded.

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@AryaSaj @the_transit_guy Would be great, but Sunnyside is still pretty far from LGA by surface streets. You’d have to tie SSD Station into the LGA AirTrain project for it to make sense.

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@Ro12Two @the_transit_guy Brightline Tropicana Universal Studios Madison Square Garden of Mar-a-Lago