A newly manufactured Amtrak Cascades locomotive waits to leave the factory in California. The frame around the windshield is gold. The nose is evergreen to represent the PNW trees and most of the locomotive is cream, the white color representing the cream in your coffee. The updated Amtrak Cascades logo is large inside the cream portion. Blue sky and thin white clouds create the backdrop.

A new Amtrak Cascades Business Train Car waits to leave the manufacturing facility for testing. Cascade mountains are featured on both ends of the car. BUSINESS is printed on the top middle portion of the evergreen background. The mocha color frames the plentiful windows and there's a stripe of cream color below the windows. The Business Car sports a gold door which matches the mountains in the Amtrak Cascades logo. The door is open and the steps are down, waiting for you to hop onboard!

Interior photo of a new Amtrak Cascades Business Car showing two seats on one side of the car. The leather seats appear comfy with tall, puffy headrests. Some seats are facing and have tables between them. You can see the edge of a table on the single seating opposite side of the car. The windows are large to view the spectacular Northwest scenery. The floors are carpeted. The end wall has wood paneling with a white Amtrak Cascades logo.

New spacious Amtrak Cascades Cafe Car features windows on both sides. A large service counter sits in the middle. Evergreen and cream colors with gold accents match the Amtrak Cascades logo, a reflection of the Pacific Northwest. White and green shadow lighting create lovely hues on the ceiling.

Drumroll, please... The first new Amtrak Cascades train is leaving the Siemens manufacturing facility in Sacramento today and heading to Pueblo, CO for testing! Following a year-long testing journey, they’ll arrive home to the PNW in 2026—stay tuned for more photos! #trains #PNW

Well, that's because the T didn't want to spend the money to put a larger transformer in at the time so Amtrak said don't use our stuff then. So for it to happen today they'd need to put in a few substations.

Glares at the @mbta.com not putting the damn wires up...

It's why community members decide to run @mbtasubwayalerts.bsky.social and @mbta-alerts.bsky.social. People got fed up and did it themself.

@mbtasubwayalerts.bsky.social @mbtaslowzonebot.bsky.social @mbta-alerts.bsky.social exist, community ran but they exist.

Boston pre-recorded announcements on the subway are nice, when it works...

I follow the photos tag so that's why I see your content. I'm mainly a lurker so I tend to not like/engage.

Lenovo. We use it in enterprise.

summoning the midwestern known as @techconnectify.bsky.social

PUT THE DAMN WIRES UP IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE

As another National Train Day passes, the bittersweet reminder that a talented artist, J. Craig Thorpe, has more vision than every single president, representative, and Amtrak appointee since 1971 about what US railroad infrastructre already should be, not some distant hope.

Yeah but I need food and housing dawg.

"You're okay." #savedyouaclick

Kindly point out to the rest of us where that lane is.

“He is facing three charges, including mischief endangering life, assault with a weapon, and assault causing bodily harm.”

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Keeping your personal data safe Why government agencies don’t just share everything they know about you with every other government agency.

The DOGE vision for government technology involves centralizing Americans’ private data. But this isn’t a new idea: it’s one that has been considered, reconsidered, and left alone many times over the years—for good reasons.

MBTA W

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"Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways"

Mitigating the impacts of street lighting on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning Street lights are not only a major source of direct light pollution emissions, but stock has been transitioning to light-emitting diode (LED) technology in many parts of the world, resulting in increa...

Listen, the temperature of the lights actually matter for wildlife at night. The newer pure white LED lights are actually causing a lot of light pollution. Warmer = better. Opinion piece: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Bezos funds this one tho.

‘It’s a failure’: South Coast Rail service disruption leaves riders stranded, skeptical of commuter line - The Boston Globe The MBTA attributes the cancellations to staff shortages, and is extending fare-free weekend service through May.

Last month, eager locals celebrated the arrival of the South Coast Rail service. Since then, issues have cropped up on the commuter line.

Boston's Chief of Streets Reminds Business Leaders That 'Our Roads Are Not Getting Bigger' - Streetsblog Massachusetts The city's business leaders have convened for a series of talks on Boston's transportation challenges, which impede the region's growth.

@boston.gov's Chief of Streets Reminds Business Leaders That ‘Our Roads Are Not Getting Bigger’ - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/04/22/b...

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@universalhub.com

Maine farmers call on Trump administration to restore USDA funds and staff They said the cuts threaten the livelihood of Maine's small farms.

"Our government needs to stop supporting billionaires and start supporting farmers."

@planetside2.bsky.social Dude Connery is unplayable. We had an alert at 7pm US Eastern and the the server crashed and continues to crash. Pop has not gotten above 94 players. We cannot get past the launcher and there's no errors. If we get past the launcher we end up crashing in sanctuary.

AYO WE SHARE THE SAME BIRTHDAY. APRIL 13TH SUPREMACY.

Any news on the Connery lag spikes we all keep getting? Server latency went to about 67000ms last night multiple times.

I wish the same kind of attitude would be applied for repainting lines on the road, fixing lights, or replacing broken bollards. Takes months or years.