Jim Maurer

@akramcodez 56 years for me.

how long have you been using computers?

@JeffCharlesh @pr0ud_americans Big Boy was in Roseville last week.

@pr0ud_americans THAT is spectacular!! I'd like to catch Big Boy pulling a string out West one of these Summer road trips.

May 8, 1989: Union Pacific No. 844 (the mighty “Greyhound”) and Southern Pacific No. 4449 (the iconic red “Daylight” GS-4) settling the score on Cajon Pass 🔥 Two legendary 4-8-4 Northerns doublehead hard up the grade in this classic Pentrex footage. Pure steam drama — who do you think won? 👀

@DysfunktionalFU @WallStreetApes No, it won’t be going through here.

@WallStreetApes Let me guess, the fast railroad will go through there when they build it right?

California is considering building a brand new city an hour away from San Francisco that will be called ‘California Forever’ 22,000 acres of farmland will be eliminated for this new “walkable city” that could house 400,000 people The total amount of farmland could be as much as 55,000 acres eliminated to become the city “The group hopes to build a new city the size of Oakland, complete with thousands of affordable homes, the nation's largest manufacturing park and a shipyard — California Forever Group CEO says he's encouraged by the new numbers and is determined to make his vision a reality. He hopes to break ground in 2028” A new walkable city…. The conspiracy theorists were right again…

@TrampaTruckin @DudespostingWs They are in places like Denver, Omaha, and Saint Louis.

@DudespostingWs What are the other 7?

This guy filmed Big Boy No. 4014, the largest steam locomotive still operating anywhere in the world. It's one of eight, the only one still running today.

@BurtThompson86 @DudespostingWs UP 4014 is the only Big Boy that can run. There are 7 others still around, but they are still in museums.

@DudespostingWs Is it one of 8 still running or the only one ?

@SpireDomePillar @LampsOfValar I don’t believe it was intended to be temporary. It did last for 50 years. The track level today is the old one.

The 1963 destruction of the original Pennsylvania Station, NYC. It was originally constructed in 1910 as a ‘temporary’ grand gateway to the city - however these photos suggests the structure was never supposed to be temporary.

@mnolangray A lot of the San Francisco coast line is bay fill. Not very stable for tall buildings.

While Canada is fine with high-rise residential even in otherwise low-slung residential areas, California insists on chunky midrise even in other highly urban areas. What explains this?

@droidbuilds IT for the IBM 650

without using grok or chatgpt name a programming language older than Python

@deygee @WebUndefeated There are 8 Big Boys in existence. This one was in a museum in Southern California. UP reaquired it and restored it in operation.

@WebUndefeated How on earth is this Artifact still in operation. The parts should be in museum for reference and not on the rail anymore.

Big Boy No. 4014 is the world’s largest operating steam locomotive. Of the eight remaining Big Boys in existence today, No. 4014 is the only one still in operation.

@NickRicci5 @sentdefender Aviation Week has long been known as AvLeak.

@sentdefender Whoever is leaking national security information should be tried for treason

During the opening stages of the Iran War, the U.S. Army, specifically the 1st Battalion, 121st Field Artillery Regiment of the Wisconsin National Guard, which operates the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), fired the Pentagon’s entire inventory of next-generation long-range Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), with replacements quickly being produced by Lockheed Martin, according to Aviation Week.

@Quakeprediction @earthquakejapan LA is still standing even though you have said many times it was going to have a big quake.

Earthquake risk expanding rapidly in the San Francisco Bay and California during the next 48 hours.

@GracklePhD @andreas_nigbur That’s the tender. It carries fuel and water.

@andreas_nigbur What's this thing?

The Mistery of Tartaria's Self-Powering Locomotives - That Vanished From History. 👇 A glass plate photograph from 1867 shows locomotive #447 departing Philadelphia for a 305-mile journey to Pittsburgh pulling six passenger cars with no coal tender visible. I found this image misfiled in a railroad museum basement along with forty-two other photographs showing the same impossible configuration—trains that shouldn't be able to move running documented routes that required six tons of coal they had nowhere to store. When I showed these to a retired Union Pacific chief engineer with forty years of experience, he calculated the fuel requirements and said flatly: "This configuration shouldn't be able to leave the station." The technology wasn't obsolete—it was too efficient, and efficiency that threatened coal sales had to be destroyed before anyone realized what we were losing. This is dramatized historical storytelling based on archival evidence, engineering documents, and physical artifacts. The first-person narrative is a technique to make research more immersive—the goal is education and critical thinking about suppressed technological history.🤔 Interesting video👍

@americangirly42 @Polymarket How could you miss all of his commercials!

@Polymarket I genuinely have never heard of this old retard and I’m a native California who’s following this governor race lol

BREAKING: Billionaire Tom Steyer is now projected to win the California governor race after Swalwell’s dropout. 53% chance.

@W2Normalville @elonmusk NASA used a different rocket called the Saturn 5. It was also very large.

@elonmusk Can you explain how we went to the moon in 1969 without these please???

Starship

@DeanBuvia @niccruzpatane It has regenerative braking which puts power back into the battery.

@niccruzpatane Does the Tesla Semi have the equivalent of a diesel's compression brake?

Instead of a two-speed transmission, The Tesla Semi has two rear axles. The forward axle, with two motors, is geared for acceleration, while the rear axle is geared for highway efficiency. The Semi has a tri-motor setup with 800kW of power. At highway speeds, the front axle will completely disengage.

@andreas_nigbur Horses pull wagons much better than people. Have you ever tried to pull one?

Vienna, Austria, 1896 Pay attention to the wagons pulled by horses.And think about why?😉 👇

@sindong61064714 Yes, the translation works. Here’s a Caltrain commuter train in San Jose, California.

최근 X의 업데이트로 언어의 장벽이 무너지게 되었습니다. 지금껏 하나하나 번역해야 했는데 매우 신기하네요. 해외의 철도동호인들에게 이 글이 잘 보이는지, 앞으로의 소통이 기대됩니다. 사진은 한국철도의 대표 기관차들입니다.

@OliverinJapan I love that sound!

Do you hear the sound of the tram motor? This is inside Hiroshima tram no. 1911, built in 1957 (originally a Kyoto tram).

@earthviewss1 Herrlich!

Neuschwanstein, Germany 🇩🇪

@PhilDurFr @ACTREN_MF There are adults right there with the children. Watch until the end. There is a man there with them and a woman is clearly taking the video.

@ACTREN_MF C'est aux USA et il n'y a ni adultes, ni clôture. Drôle de culture où on ne semble pas trop se préoccuper des petits. Pays où les armes à feu font tous les ans des dizaines de morts dans les établissements scolaires. Ils n'ont pas de respect pour les enfants.

Encuesta rápida: ¿Estos niños serán amantes del tren o tendrán miedo a acercarse a él? 😉 📹 Gmaw1972