Interurban Era

Narrator: "It would be decades before the UK Realized conveyor belts and bottom dump hoppers existed elsewhere"

An absolutely BONKERS way to unload a coal gondola...

Therapist: the TEMU flex track can't hurt you, it...

The TEMU flex track:

Most definitely. Build the yard there and then cap it with a forest of hong kong height towers.

Cowards, just replace every window with a screen that only shows unskipple ads when driving

screenshot of Manhanote Clockwise line on the PC game Subway Builder

screenshot of Manhanote Counter-Clockwise line on the PC game Subway Builder

had a vision and stayed up late into the night to realize it: Manhattan Yamanote Line. Manhanote Line

You need a yard large enough for an entire fleet of rolling stock in passenger operations or else they'll be problems, Especially when the line needs to be closed for maintenance

Therapist: the TEMU flex track can't hurt you, it...

The TEMU flex track:

VIA No. 622 at Port Daniel You're aboard VIA Rail Train #622 on the south coast of the Gaspe peninsula en route to Gaspe, looking back west from RDC 6118. The two-car RDC train has just stopped at Port Daniel, a short distance ...

the colors on what has to be scanned slides here is wild, I don't think eastern canada is *quite* that blue-green cc @amyhoy.bsky.social @interurbanera.bsky.social @isaiahbishop.bsky.social

Northern Pacific 4-6-0 Runs Again in Washington A recently-restored Northern Pacific 4-6-0 was fired up and moved under its own power for the first time in 73 years in Washington on February 21.

The Northern Pacific Railway Museum in Toppenish, Wash., has been working on NP 1364 for over a decade, and last weekend it ran under its own power for the first time in 73 years. railfan.com/northern-pac...

I love cartoons, I love pinups, and I do love me some graphic design so here's all three in one. Had to crank this one out while he's still star of the month over at @tcmtv.bsky.social

It is just wild that the time taken to travel between Tokyo and Osaka was:

1930: 9 hours with steam
1958: 6 hours with electrics
1964: 4 hours with the Shinkansen

Today, it's under 2h30.

While we probably don't need a fourth type of rail in SF that needs its own yards and backshops, I had a say that ALM would be perfect for Geary.

I could also see that going down 19th or Sunset to meet with the daly City Bart Cross platform so we can upzone sunset finally

Wow, almost wish this had really happened, it looks great.

Fallout legendary weapon vibes

black and white print of Minneapolis in an imagined art deco industrial cityscape, multiple shapes of mills and railroads intersecting

"Minneapolis", 1925 lithograph by Ukrainian-American Louis Lozowick, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Who doesn't love a P-3 Orion?

*cheerful boop boop*

dining cars cafe, buellton, california, 1985

dining cars cafe, buellton, california, 1985

Rumbling over the Butte Slough Bridge, Sacramento Northern #430 leads a small freight train east on the quiet Colusa Branch — June 27, 1945.

Arthur Lloyd, a BAERA founder, recognized the moment's history. Already, SN was discussing ripping up the energized third rail here. By 1946, it'd come true.

I mean, that sounds like a good time! We need more biodiversity. Maybe Cambrian explosion 2?

I can't get over how cute this new depot kit is

Have we tried turning our reality off and then back on again?

Me too. Decision makers have decided nothing is worth doing if it doesn't turn a profit, and then cry/wail/actively try to destroy anything that isn't supposed to be a profit center.

Amtrak ends plans for new bi-level cars - Trains WASHINGTON — Amtrak is scrapping plans for a new generation of bi-level passenger equipment to replace its aging Superliner fleet, announcing that it will instead move ahead with developing a single-l...

folks we are firmly back on the path of amtrak eliminating or significantly scaling back amenities on long distance trains

www.trains.com/pro/mechanic...

Looks like the original was on a Minitrains HOn30 Chassis?

Deliberately understaffing mission critical jobs has to be one of the most evil parts of this era.

Not like there wouldn't be 2-4x the people working today who'd enjoy the pace and challenges of ATC if they weren't run ragged.

Definitely give this a read!

An “Ideal Snow Plow” railroad plow; instead of one front-facing rotor, there are two side-facing wheels on either side of a central plow

A group of men pose in front of a spinning rotary plow. It looks dangerous

1921 Winther rotary plow truck. A massive contraption on spiked steel wheels

A rotary plow where the fan has been replaced by a giant corkscrew

Thinking about rotary plows today