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Find you a man who looks at you like Steve Trevor looks at @wmata

@who_shot_jgr All hail the Glow Cloud

i just want to remind everyone that the giant mushroom cloud in ohio everyone is posting right now happened on monday and why the fuck weren't you paying attention

@Null82415144 @who_shot_jgr Lac-Mégantic would say hi, if, well, you know.

@who_shot_jgr Trains derail and destroy entire small towns in the US all the time. That's just how it is here.

311 in your teens vs 311 in your thirties

@timjhogan Lotta people saying Jensen likes Walz’ smile, but maybe it’s not why you think

My soul left my body at this moment

1600 cars, $1m per EMU car with a top speed of 100 mph (110 mph on test), but @Amtrak can barely reequip with the Siemens Venture for $2.5m/car.

A brief history of the "Dan Patch Line" (Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern Railway). Seen here is DT-6-6-2000 #23 in service on May 20, 1971. Bob Johnson photo. american-rails.com/minneapolis.ht…

@peterlewis_jpg @RAILMag In an ideal world, the state of Illinois (or Amtrak) would’ve owned the Alton since the UP/SP merger and lease freight space back to the UP.

@RAILMag I think that taking over an existing ROW for HSR would only be worthwhile in a case like Bloomington, IL where the existing corridor provides access to downtown for CHI-STL HSR, while a route around town would be fine for the freight RR (if it comes with a new yard, I’m sure).

Have to dispel the myth you can just "straighten" a hilly & curvy rail line and/or buy a heavily-trafficked freight line, run all the passenger trains you want and significantly reduce travel times. Curvy/hilly lines are that way for a reason: there's mountains, folks. (1/x)

@Ray_Phenicie @alanthefisher But also yes, bus service is a disaster just on the Detroit side.

@Ray_Phenicie @alanthefisher Three bus systems if you count Transit Windsor; also, I don’t even know whose auspices the Tunnel Bus falls under. Obvious immediate answer is international bus service in the tunnel, on the Ambo & the future Howe, plus a casino ferry. Ideal future service would include LRT.

What are some of the largest transit and infrastructure projects in the US that either need funding or are in need of being completed? Especially ones that help fight climate change.

A very young coworker just described Labor Day as “the yassification of American labor” and tbh that’s the best description I’ve ever heard

@dick_nixon You could just pin the phrase, “I’m not going to read the Brooks thing” and retweet it as necessary, sir.

I'm not going to read the Brooks thing. Not a thousand words to have him tell us it's really an incurable muddle and Niebuhr and so forth. No.

@DocMcDoom @dick_nixon As long as they’re co-conspirators, yes

I bet at 2:30 or so he makes a statement saying he'd love to release the warrant, but his lawyer says no.

@thejoshp Generally yes, most countries either separate their passenger and freight service onto separate lines, or give priority to passenger trains where they share tracks. The US and Canada are largely unique in freight having the priority.

This neatly describes the difference between American passenger railroading and world (in this case Indian 🇮🇳) passenger railroading: we’re stuck in our glory days of the 1950s, they’re building thousands of miles of state-of-the-art HSR. @americanrails @IndianTechGuide

*arf* Good dog

@americanrails Wow, they did a lot of work to that USRA Light Mikado didn’t they.

Wabash 4-6-4, #701, at Decatur, IL, circa 1954. These Hudsons were rebuilt from 2-8-2s, receiving semi-streamlined with skirting along the running boards and elephant ears, in addition to a light blue livery with white trim. Fred Byerly photo. American-Rails.com collection.

@DougJBalloon We’re discounting the possibility that @DougJBalloon is a sock puppet for @jmartNYT

In this Times Square Starbucks, they know that no one says "breaded tenderloin" in Indiana.

@ImClaaara @JosefFortier @csilverandgold The supply chain is overwhelmingly controlled by the Radical Right though, either on a command level (ex: Uline) or on the individual truck driver level. Couple that with the obvious police sympathy for anti-liberal causes and you can see how cities could be blockaded.

No, guys, seriously. There *cannot be* another civil war along the lines of the American civil war in the 1860s bc *there is no broad regional conflict*. Instead it’s mostly cities vs rural/exurbs which is impossible to fight a huge bitter land war over.

@AryaSaj @the_transit_guy Would be great, but Sunnyside is still pretty far from LGA by surface streets. You’d have to tie SSD Station into the LGA AirTrain project for it to make sense.

If Madison Square Garden had to be relocated, where could it go that would make sense?

@Ro12Two @the_transit_guy Brightline Tropicana Universal Studios Madison Square Garden of Mar-a-Lago