The litigation on this one should be interesting.
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The litigation on this one should be interesting.
Itās gotten harder to enjoy some of the things I want to / always have enjoyed.
Sounds like a literal right wing actor. He doesn't represent the left at all. Democrats aren't the left either. They're all shitlibs. Besides, what is the "left" anyway? just a term used by the right to slander the virtuous. The "left" are just normal people who don't want to live in fascism.
At the cost of your soul. Thatās the line here.
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Theyāre about to literally start losing those of us who were still here when we just abandon the state over this.
I donāt think you know how many people are or are not reading but if youāre just going to be a snarky little Cunt about it then I guess I can just block you
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Did a double take with that last car and for good reason. I had forgotten that they transferred a few superliners over to Caltrans! That new slimmed down scheme actually works pretty well on it.
Find a good trail for a hike and enjoy the weather before it gets cold
That wasnāt why I joined but itās a perk.
And why the Annie? Because at the end of the day, they are the throughline to the entire arch of this story. Broken up after Conrail & piecemealed to different operators, their trajectory has led their current operator to control their entire legacy railroad for the first time in nearly 50 years.
Really, though, it isnāt truly ending, thanks to a condition of the sale being retention of the name. But this effectively ends the independent legacy of the Ann Arbor Railroad and Macy whatās left of it (Toledo-Ann Arbor/Saline) folded into GLC. My PFP this month then honors the legacy Annie.
Thanks for this tip, Iāll definitely be fooling around more the next time I book with them.
The position that I take with, this is the same one. Iāve always taken with photos and to a degree videos: nothing lasts forever, and you should document it, even if it bores the shit out of you or doesnāt really interest you.
Something tells me theyāre going to love you. They really want more historic recordings than new recordings. Thatās something that I am tragically not really able to help them with other than potentially having the old Okemos, MI detector, I mentioned.
Just for kicks, hereās my collection. My numbers got a pretty big boost when I picked up pretty much every CSX detector between Washington, DC and Pittsburgh last November on the final run of the Capitol Limited. Iām trying to fill in gaps back home in Michigan as I can, but itās proven difficult.
@prrsignal.bsky.social hereās one more example that you might appreciate.
Itās very easy. Check these photos. The detector I picked as an example is the one closest to my hometown in MI. Somewhere on one of my old 8 mm tapes, I have some audio of this CMA02-D that I grew up listening to. Just need to go to my dadās and watch the tapes to find it.
I think youād find the culture is fairly similar to at least Western Ontario. I have some extremely personal reasons why I wonāt go back, but I still love it and next to Illinois. Itās probably the best state in the lower midwest. Way way better than both Ohio and Indiana beneath it.
Are you referring to Mexico? Iām sure that they would be open to adding detectors in Mexico if they had people down there to help them. I donāt think either of the owners are on this platform otherwise I might try to tag them, but itās Nick Wilson and Spencer Harman who run it.
This site got a lot of attention in the week of the East Palestine disaster. I found a very quickly that they didnāt have current audio of most of the detectors here in my adopted Northeast Ohio. I fixed that, and then some, and Iām now one of their top contributors. Need to get back into the gameā¦
Finally. All of this.
I left Michigan 11 years ago today. RIP to the piece of my soul that died from it. I still hate where I live now and it gets worse every single year.
The people who brave the Darien Gap and the Mexican desert to come to America and build a new life are more American on the day they show up then J.D. Vance and his disgusting ban of fascist freaks have ever been in their fucking lives.
WTF is this boob going on aboutā¦sourdough is awesome. Always has been. And nobody got rid of any other breadā¦ if anything this country might eat too much of it š
That is a very apt descriptor for everything The company does nowā¦ saying that as someone who is basically a loyalist to them too.
Those are similar to the seats on the new venture cars is being used on some of the corridor trains elsewhere in that the seat slides out but doesnāt recline. Iām not sure Iām a huge fan myself.
If I read it that way, a whole bunch of other people probably did too. Just providing some context.
Thatās probably an apt way to put it. I could have had a path into Italy but they Pulled the rug out from under me on blood citizenship rules. Blood might also get me into Ireland but the person who could help me find the ancestral data I need on that front died a decade agoā¦
Which Peter Parker turns you on the most
And you are completely mischaracterizing this. The trains have nothing to do with this other than just passing through the station.
Last year on a vacation to Calif., my partner & I went on an extended hike in Portola Redwoods State Park to find a waterfall. Immediately after and since then, itās dawned on me weāve neglected many falls right in NE OH in the decade Weāve been trapped here. No more. šø Great Falls, Bedford, OH
Long overdue. The current system is a nice-to-have but this would make it way more useful. I rode it a few years ago with some friends for kicks.
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Or Republic of New England.
Did you just make the toilet part up or is that the narrative? I didnāt catch on to any of this really until this morning
Idea: If Trump actually *does* die, hang a disco ball over his burial site and charge people $50 a minute to dance on his grave. National debt sorted.
The end of GLC. Much sooner than I expected. STB made fast work of this. #railsky
New England States of America or, simply, the Republic of New England.
New Hampshire has somehow stayed in the blue column nationally for a decade but theyāve let republicans destroy it from within. I donāt want to call them stupid ātards like everything west of the Delaware River butā¦ looking at this and many other maps? ā¦ ā¦. ā¦..
Iām just here for the comments about New Hampshire.
#SpiritWho? #avgeek #stupidmemes
Is the agency Sard Verbennin by chance?
Friend asked me for that. Then my girlfriend asked me for something on a different subjectā¦ and I had another ideaā¦ Iāll stop beating on them now, I promise
Trippiest thing last year was seeing one drive around one of the cable cars. Talk about juxtaposition of erasā¦
I really donāt think the chances of him stopping it were that high, with Hedlund well out of the way by the time this actually comes to a vote. You might be right but itās a low chance. The skids were kind of greased by default the way this was set up.
If Frontier makes another opening to merge, they need to take it. I donāt think this is going to get better.
I think this is just straight racism. I think it has more to do with that than greasing the wheels for the merger. Karen Hedlund is out at the end of the year & she will likely be replaced by an R and then theyāll nominate a second for the open seat. Primus was going to be outgunned no matter what.
Thank you for not being upset Iām considering Canada š
If my company says yes, and will do the work to help me get a visa, your neck of the woods.
Me too and Iām going to try to leave because of it.
Iāve been a little confused by the reporting, are these actually able to go 160 in Jersey like theyāve been saying?
Thereās a pun to be made here but Iāll be polite
THAT BEING SAID, I still like reading Bob Johnstonās passenger reporting. He is a gem in journalism trade. But thatās all I like about them now. @justinfranz.bsky.social you guys need to find his heir-apparent!
They banned me from their pages on fuckbook (which tbf I donāt even have anymore) because I had the audacity to fight the little Nazi beta males that make up most of this hobby. So no, not a fan anymore. And I subscribed to them from roughly age 5 (thanks to my parents) to my college yearsā¦
Public input meetings should be banned under the Geneva Convention, and comments should only be taken online (excluding Facebook).
reminder that MasterCard and VISA are very okay with processing payments for guns and bullets, just not a video game where two fictional people fuck.
No R&R story on this posted so I reluctantly share a Trains piece. Part of this PNUS, as the joke goes, but in tandem with Lisa Cook, itās all but confirming Trump is an honorary member of the Ku Klux Klan.
The NEC will be fun again for a few years
Oh gee I donāt know maybe it just feels weak and wonāt bring the people back? And it doesnāt stop this shit from happening again?
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"Soft secession" is the best idea I've heard yet, a way to exert blue state power and hamstring the Trump regime without provoking Civil War. Short of some magic serum that cures MAGAs of their mindless devotion to the cult leader, this could me an achievable step.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
Primus is saying that heās going to sue. And I hope he does. Pretty clear heās not gonna get re-nominated, but he should be allowed to finish the term heās in.
This just leaves CN as the odd-out for now.
The question I have is how long the new and old sets are going to operate side-by-side
I tried the one in independence this spring. Pretty good. Will be a nice addition to downtown.
Iām sure weāll find out someday.
I wonder what brought them so far off the system
Well then it might be time to arm those guys for a while
Is this real or AI? The wig wag in the background there is a Magnetic Signal Company lower quadrant which both Santa Fe and SP used, and those were always the two biggest players in HTXā¦ so Iām inclined to believe it
Throw some ICE into the fire.
You are correct mostly. At least white ones did. But in many areas, that is nearly all of them and it seems to me they work to keep it that way. Ergo:
ICE is officially a terrorist organization
The firefighters should have forced ICE to chase them and then lead them into the fire and lost them there.
It needs to be said, and I mean this sincerely, fuck ICE
at some point someone's gonna have to
Well they've arrested and deported pediatric cancer patients. Can't get much lower than that but clearly they'll still try š«
Like I just said in my last post, America sucks. Nothing is too low for these savage animal Cunts.
This tweet is 10 years old and keeps coming up. If someone was brave enough to get photos of the bodies turned into Swiss cheese and overwhelm social media platforms spamming them to force people to lookā¦ that might move the needle halfway. But only halfway. America sucks.
Yes Iām aware. These are permanently historic now. VIA actually asked if their replacement LD order could include these and no manufacturers were willing to make them. DOMES yes, thank goodnessā¦ but not these. :(
A regular sunset photo too. Summerās twilight in northern Ohio.
This thing has literally set too high a bar for me when it comes to observation cars. None of the traditional ones that other tourist railroads have are ever going to come close to the experience of this thing.
I rode in this car behind SP 4449 in 2009. It is a level of comfort and luxury that Amtrak honestly could never truly aspire to.
THIS WOULD BE GREAT.
I cannot emphasize enough, everyone who voted for this shit damned us as a country and has hands drenched in blood. We are all going to suffer. Why should the people who represent us, the ones who didn't vote to do that, apply scarce resources to their welfare over my community?
Urban Michigan native here: Iād be the first to sacrifice my (former) rural neighbors to make Michigan perma-blue.
I love when the hybrid basically decides itās going to be an EV for almost an entire trip.
The original post was why canāt we have something like Switzerland, you tried to make the wrongheaded argument that we canāt but like I just said itās wrong and we can. You just have to think regionally. Thanks for taking the talking points of the Republicunts but you lost this game.
It has two owners. Amtrak owns the majority of it, and Metro North owns a section in New York and Connecticut. Also freight railroads didnāt just buy up the tracks, theyāve always owned them. Thatās been a fixture of our rail system pretty much since the beginning - 200 years in 2027.
Theyāll keep using air and road convoys to move troops around before they use the trains. The DOD does want Amtrak for true, extreme emergencies but they never really use it. Guy below me talking about homeless encampments might be on to something.
Youāre proving my point actually. No, a truly continental system that tries to touch every single corner of the continent doesnāt work, but you can have a baseline continental system that still serves regional centers and interconnects. thats effectively what Europe has if you take the borders away.
Railroads in the Golden Age provided really great public transportation, even though it wasnāt public in the modern sense that we know it today. The auto manufacturers are largely responsible for the decimation of our passenger rail system. Interestingly, not ford though. He liked trains.
Youāre misread this he is not taking control of Amtrak. Heās just taking management of Washington Union Station away from them. Which is still bad but not as bad as youāre making it out to be. Him actually trying to take over Amtrak would be very very thorny with how itās actually set up.
Not sure I like this joke when you consider that Biden is very much still alive at the momentā¦
Station, not the trains. At least not yet.
This is the station not the railroad, which is already nationalized and was from its beginning in 1971. Nationalizing the private freight system that makes up the majority of our rail network would actually be a good thing at this point, believe it or not.
