Marco Chitti

Yes. With buffer wagons usually. I think the latest London underground's trains were delivered by mainline rail too, in a freight consist through the Chunnel iirc.

For example: the new trains for Milan's metro spotted in various locations on mainline rail. It helps that older metro networks had direct rail connections. Not very common nowadays.

They often are. Not in North America though.

Look, the Americans turned fascists last time they had to pay a bit more for eggs.

That's enough to turn them into flesh-eating aliens if it lasts more than 3 weeks.

Icy St-Laurent

Icy tracks

Nope. Charlevoix.

The Good ICE.

Which book is this?

Is it reciprocal?

I never really typeset it myself, our Palestinian colleagues did. The few times I had to type something, I used word symbols, lol.

Yes. For 1 year & half.

Nothing will beat the "ponts-par-million" metric though.

Ridership models, baby! Especially the very outdated ones the AMT was using (and still uses)

Generally B, even though there might be a split between one doing the machine loading more often while the other (me) does most of the folding

They already went as far as Chicago! Exotic!

It's a bad project, even worse executed.

But don't worry, we are going to make an even worse project for the East now!

I fear it's unfixable without major investments and someone willing to confront CN.

Arab works so well with this! We did multiple presentation in this double arab + english column format when I was working in the West Bank. It really produces visually beautiful documents.

We need this meme, but for negotiating with the US.

Never accept tea from Putin, nor a negotiation with the US. They are both poisonous.

For a US city, you don't even have that many! Even though a European city of a similar size probably has half, a third or even less.

I don't know what to call this...a map, a hierarchy, something else? Either way, putting some thoughts on transit signal priority together. I think this covers all the strategies used in Madison, but there are likely more.

Transit Costs Data – 2026 Update What the data is telling us Most recent update: 02/28/2026 Here we present some visualizations of our data. The data covers only a portion of rail projects in each city/country and, in many instances...

My colleague @eensari.bsky.social has updated Transit Cost Project data, including my additions for Japan and the UK.
transitcosts.com/new-data/

I've been rewatching Andror lately and I've reached the point when the Empire is "acquiring the territories and ressources" of Ghorman.

Or at least that's what the New Coruscant Times is probably writing...

I agree. FSSF is great if you have a range of prevalently suburban/regional/fast regional/mid-range intercity traffic. But higher speed, higher frequency long-distance trains are better on their own and freight is a wild card.

That's an interesting point because many rail enthusiasts in Italy I talked to would point the FS/RFI approach of building Slow and Fast tracks as de facto separate lines as backward and wasteful compared to an S-F-F-S 4-track configuration.

Substantial nationalization of half of the railways. And done in an emergency after a major bankruptcy, not as a strategic choice as far as I understand it.

I honestly wouldn't take Berlin, a city that lost most of its major stations to WWII and then was divided between two hostile countries for half a century preventing any major modernization as a "paradigmatic" example of railway stations evolution to compare against.

French just before it, in 1937. But France's regime prior to nationalization was similar to the Italian 1885-1905: the private railways owned the trains and operated on a regime of concession on publicly-owned fixed infrastructure.

Accidentally, these generous station precincts are why Brescia could add 3 new platforms to host HS trains a few years ago (and 2 more tracks into the station from the West) by leveraging the unused service tracks, with a pricetag in the few tens of millions.

I think we have a growing consensus that @alonlevy.bsky.social 's thesis that the beginning of the North American rail passenger's sector falling behind international peers is not a post WWII thing but rather an interwar thing. And not nationalizing the railways is the main reason.