@benjaminturon.bsky.social
Upstate New Yorker
Stew's U.S. High Speed Rail News Nov 2025 | CAHSR Brightline West Northeast Corridor High Desert www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRpb...
#HSR #passengerrail #HighSpeedRail #Gateway #Amtrak #MetroNorth
"The Ecuadorean Navy has two submarines in its fleet. And the cartels? No one really knows, but definitely many more."
@mercoglianos.bsky.social #navy #shipping #drugwar
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/w...
American companies are racing to build machines more intelligent than humans. China’s A.I. industry is not obsessed with artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I. Chinese entrepreneurs are focused on applying A.I. to services, devices and manufacturing. #AI #China
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
Miniature Steam Railway in the Bay Area #steamengine #trains www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd-e...
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"So, you want to see the President?" 🤔
— BY Norman Rockwell (1943) 🎨
#POTUS #FDR #normanrockwell #art
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/a...
Views of the Livingston Ave Bridge with ongoing construction of new rail bridge across the Hudson River #EmpireCorridor #Railroad
23.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Private Cars #Railroad
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Some views of Rensselaer from Early October...
#EmpireCorridor #Amtrak #Rensselaer #Railroad
Stew's Rail News Bites 10/21/25 #highspeedtrain #china #newyork #canada youtube.com/shorts/fbZIG...
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His "City on the Edge of Foreclosure" is the best one so far 🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=n69x...
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Stalled Trek: The Dumbsday Machine — Full Movie
youtube.com/watch?v=9MzQ...
🖖 #StarTrek #TOS #lol
To be clear, NO, the MTA Taxing District is NOT being extended to Upstate NY for one daily round-trip by Metro-North to Albany-Rensselaer from Grand Central Terminal, despite rumors on social media.
#Amtrak #MetroNorth #AlbanyNY #MTA #Tax
CITY & STATE ARTICLE
www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
"Avoiding legal and logistical headaches by sending the men home seemed to contradict the administration’s stance that suspected drug smugglers pose such a severe danger that Mr. Trump can have the military summarily kill them."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Even the Imperial Navy in Star Wars gets this right! 😅
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhtT...
"Trump’s blow-them-out-of-the-water approach seems, at least, like some kind of course of action."
-- Bret Stephens, NY Times #Navy #USCG
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...
⬇️ My angry ranting response 😡
The Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief #ErieCanal
buffalomaritimecenter.org/erie-canal-b...
Higher Quality Footage from Someone Else's Drone 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fk-...
#ErieCanal #SenecaChief
The Buffalo Maritime Center's full-sized replica of the Erie Canal Boat 'Seneca Chief' — which first traversed the Erie Canal upon its opening in 1825. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfOC...
#ErieCanal #SenecaChief
One ‘Really Big One’ After Another | The disaster caused by a predicted large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could be compounded by shaking along the San Andreas fault in California, scientists warned. #earthquake #SanAndreas #cascadia
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...
I turned a Brightline Florida Infographic for a big "Empire Corridor Express Track" video I am working on into a short video... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmkQ...
#Brightline #HSR #PassengerRail #Intercity #Florida
Train Time at Utica Union Station | Eastbound Amtrak 'Empire Service' train at Utica Union Station on a Friday afternoon in August 2025
#Amtrak #EmpireCorridor #Utica www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnMC...
Low Angle Shots of FirstGen ACELA and NextGen ACELA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ak...
#Acela #NextGenAcela #Amtrak #NEC
"FirstGen" ACELA meets NextGen ACELA at Miner Lane Crossing 😃
#Acela #NextGenAcela #Amtrak #NEC #Trains #Railway
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJD6...
"These ever-shifting sculptures of vapor and light are among nature’s least appreciated marvels. That’s why 20 years ago, I started the Cloud Appreciation Society, to remind people to look up."
#clouds #sky #climate
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"Trump is the first president in our history to invert Lincoln: He speaks with malice toward all and charity for none. He makes Nixon look like Churchill." — Bret Stephens, NY Times
#Trump #CharlieKirk
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
Passenger Trains at Rocky Neck State Park 🌊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkB...
#Amtrak #NEC #Acela
An interesting "what if"? 🙂 HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik 🛟
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcVx...
Looking fit to make Freddie Mercury's rocking world go round, HMS Glatton sits in dry dock. It's very very definitely all about that bass. Wooden keel blocks enable the ship to improbably levitate above the floor of the equally massive dock.
This thing here, exhibit A in "the danger of leaving our ships to melt in the hot sun", is HMS Glatton.
And on this day in 1918 things went even more pear-shaped than they already were...
An interesting "what if"? 🙂 HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik 🛟
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcVx...
US Military Conducts 2nd Op Against Venezuelan Vessel in International Waters | Impact on Shipping? 🛟
www.youtube.com/watch?v=slTw...
#venezuela #unitedstates #caribbean
