4ft8n'ahalf
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Ex-Class 1 MOW Railroader
Freight Rail poster
@4ft8n1half from twitter
Ex-Class 1 MOW Railroader
Freight Rail poster
@4ft8n1half from twitter
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www.ntsb.gov
October 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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NTSB sliding in at the buzzer before government shutdown recommending SEPTA sideline all silverliner IVs (2/3rds of the regional rail fleet) until they can stop them from catching fire
October 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
NTSB sliding in at the buzzer before government shutdown recommending SEPTA sideline all silverliner IVs (2/3rds of the regional rail fleet) until they can stop them from catching fire
There are still tons of people in the industry and around it in North America that will lie to your face or are totally oblivious to anything going on outside of NA and say that double stack trains under wire are impossible while China and India blaze on past us into the future.
Suxi Container Terminal serves the Ningbo-Jinhua Railway (Yongjin Railway) an electric traction double-stack container railway. Currently the railway is under testing with consists of double-stack high cube shipping containers in wellcars pulled by electric locomotives. Video by SS-287....
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
There are still tons of people in the industry and around it in North America that will lie to your face or are totally oblivious to anything going on outside of NA and say that double stack trains under wire are impossible while China and India blaze on past us into the future.
The North American rail industry can't just keep acting like what they are doing now is anywhere near enough. They lack the imagination and vision they had just half a century ago. They are no longer ready to meet the demands of modern overland freight transportation without a serious shakeup.
Last week, the Suxi Inland Container Terminal in Yiwu, China opened. Due to strange geography, the terminal needed its 4 double stack container wellcar compatible loading and unloading tracks to be raised on bridges and served by custom 42 meter tall cranes (also double stack compatible)....
June 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The North American rail industry can't just keep acting like what they are doing now is anywhere near enough. They lack the imagination and vision they had just half a century ago. They are no longer ready to meet the demands of modern overland freight transportation without a serious shakeup.
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The extent to which China has dramatically shifted over most bulk freight from trucking over to rail in the past 10 years has been dramatically underreported in the West
theicct.org/publication/...
theicct.org/publication/...
Toward greener and more sustainable freight rail: Comparing freight rail systems and services in the United States and China - International Council on Clean Transportation
Compares the past and present domestic freight systems and relevant policy efforts in China and the United States, with analysis of the shipping patterns in both countries.
theicct.org
June 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The extent to which China has dramatically shifted over most bulk freight from trucking over to rail in the past 10 years has been dramatically underreported in the West
theicct.org/publication/...
theicct.org/publication/...
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An oft-quoted claim about US freight is that it's the best in the world. The trouble is, as soon as you actually look at the data, it isn't by a long measure.
It’s so easy to say the U.S. rail system is the worst in the world. More accurately, its passenger rail network does not correspond with the country’s level of prosperity.
The entire intercity passenger system in the *WESTERN HEMISPHERE* is lousy. U.S. freight rail is the world’s best, though.
The entire intercity passenger system in the *WESTERN HEMISPHERE* is lousy. U.S. freight rail is the world’s best, though.
June 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
An oft-quoted claim about US freight is that it's the best in the world. The trouble is, as soon as you actually look at the data, it isn't by a long measure.
Every 5 to 10 minutes I'm on I-75/I-40 in Tennessee I see a full manifest trains worth of freight, how are NS and CSX just leaving that much on the table?
May 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Every 5 to 10 minutes I'm on I-75/I-40 in Tennessee I see a full manifest trains worth of freight, how are NS and CSX just leaving that much on the table?
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As Cheeto Benito sends the US into a recession, the cost of infrastructure projects will hurt new transit construction, so it's important to be frugal with how money is allocated.
Today, I want to talk about the worst transit project in the US for this reason
youtu.be/LZrrtF8Iy8k?...
Today, I want to talk about the worst transit project in the US for this reason
youtu.be/LZrrtF8Iy8k?...
The Worst New Transit Project in the US
YouTube video by Alan Fisher
youtu.be
April 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
As Cheeto Benito sends the US into a recession, the cost of infrastructure projects will hurt new transit construction, so it's important to be frugal with how money is allocated.
Today, I want to talk about the worst transit project in the US for this reason
youtu.be/LZrrtF8Iy8k?...
Today, I want to talk about the worst transit project in the US for this reason
youtu.be/LZrrtF8Iy8k?...
This is a long shot, but I'm working on something with a friend. dose anyone have any documents on the post-WW2 General Electric proposal to the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad for electrification? I've seen it mentioned in multiple places but never have seen any documents.
April 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is a long shot, but I'm working on something with a friend. dose anyone have any documents on the post-WW2 General Electric proposal to the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad for electrification? I've seen it mentioned in multiple places but never have seen any documents.
Seems really not great when a chunk of the Amtrak coach fleet has become a railcar sized sacrificial electrode.
March 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Seems really not great when a chunk of the Amtrak coach fleet has become a railcar sized sacrificial electrode.
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why are veterans commemoration schemes always *so* bad
NECR 3015, Three Rivers, MA
Here is a nice view of Central New England RR's veterans unit. We were nervous as the clouds were quickly moving in and the guys who shot the train on the Chicopee River bridge other side of the grade...
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January 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
why are veterans commemoration schemes always *so* bad
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now that's the GOOD SHIT
Santa Fe Alco RSD15 at Cleburne,Tx
Jan 1978
flic.kr
March 28, 2024 at 9:17 PM
now that's the GOOD SHIT
Also hello after being inactive here, trying to work on that.
March 28, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Also hello after being inactive here, trying to work on that.
Half of a million people misinformed about which corridor, which railroad, and the full scope of why it actually happened.
I wouldn't be as frustrating if it wasn't essentially trashing the single best piece of freight infrastructure built in California in the past 50+ years.
I wouldn't be as frustrating if it wasn't essentially trashing the single best piece of freight infrastructure built in California in the past 50+ years.
March 28, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Half of a million people misinformed about which corridor, which railroad, and the full scope of why it actually happened.
I wouldn't be as frustrating if it wasn't essentially trashing the single best piece of freight infrastructure built in California in the past 50+ years.
I wouldn't be as frustrating if it wasn't essentially trashing the single best piece of freight infrastructure built in California in the past 50+ years.
They really need to make an easier way to know about new features without stumbling on an update post <2 days after each update
December 23, 2023 at 7:30 PM
They really need to make an easier way to know about new features without stumbling on an update post <2 days after each update
It's pretty damning that Alstom was able to do this with a train they didn't even fully design themselves based on an already then 20 years old Bombardier LRC cars redesigned to work with beefed up TGV power cars in 4 years meanwhile the Avelia Liberty is 6 in development hell.
October 3, 2023 at 8:20 PM
It's pretty damning that Alstom was able to do this with a train they didn't even fully design themselves based on an already then 20 years old Bombardier LRC cars redesigned to work with beefed up TGV power cars in 4 years meanwhile the Avelia Liberty is 6 in development hell.
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I think it's time for all of my followers to go and check out an episode you probably missed!
Eleven to choose from, including the original layout.
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Eleven to choose from, including the original layout.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Alta California Railway 1968 HO Scale Model Railroad
Building my home layout, the lovely Alta California Railway. This 8x15' showcase layout lives in my workshop where I build models for my clients. It's a prot...
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September 18, 2023 at 5:26 PM
I think it's time for all of my followers to go and check out an episode you probably missed!
Eleven to choose from, including the original layout.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Eleven to choose from, including the original layout.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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In July 1925, the Western Pacific ceded all their Marysville freight switching to the Sacramento Northern, inadvertently sowing the seeds for the last bastion of SN electrics.
This created SN's most profitable freight venture, which saw steeplecabs switching WP freights all the way until 1965.
This created SN's most profitable freight venture, which saw steeplecabs switching WP freights all the way until 1965.
September 19, 2023 at 4:30 AM
In July 1925, the Western Pacific ceded all their Marysville freight switching to the Sacramento Northern, inadvertently sowing the seeds for the last bastion of SN electrics.
This created SN's most profitable freight venture, which saw steeplecabs switching WP freights all the way until 1965.
This created SN's most profitable freight venture, which saw steeplecabs switching WP freights all the way until 1965.
This email was designed in a lab to kill anyone with any understanding of engineering manufacturing limitations.
August 24, 2023 at 7:01 PM
This email was designed in a lab to kill anyone with any understanding of engineering manufacturing limitations.
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doing cool guy shit*
*watching japanese railfan videos about chicago commuter trains
*watching japanese railfan videos about chicago commuter trains
【ミシガン11番街駅】今も残るインターアーバンの真骨頂【サウスショア��...
ミシガン11番街の駅は道路上にあり、ホームのようなものはありません。そこにやってくるのは路面電車ではない、大きなサイズの車両です。信号機...
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August 9, 2023 at 8:21 PM
doing cool guy shit*
*watching japanese railfan videos about chicago commuter trains
*watching japanese railfan videos about chicago commuter trains
I think it's important that even if you've given up hope on a better future for American cities that you don't use a large platform to essentially doomer post about it. You're making it harder, not easier to fix things at that point.
July 31, 2023 at 10:38 AM
I think it's important that even if you've given up hope on a better future for American cities that you don't use a large platform to essentially doomer post about it. You're making it harder, not easier to fix things at that point.
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Also, "I'm not an advocate for change in North America" is a total load of retroactive horseshit. Half of his videos are basically a call to action for crying out loud! Idk how you could interpret it as anything else.
July 31, 2023 at 9:01 AM
Also, "I'm not an advocate for change in North America" is a total load of retroactive horseshit. Half of his videos are basically a call to action for crying out loud! Idk how you could interpret it as anything else.
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Man found with shovel, still digging an extremely bleak and depressing hole 8 hours later
Honestly, I'm not always hopeful about the future of all US cities but god damn I am never this outright cynical about it.
Honestly, I'm not always hopeful about the future of all US cities but god damn I am never this outright cynical about it.
July 31, 2023 at 8:41 AM
Man found with shovel, still digging an extremely bleak and depressing hole 8 hours later
Honestly, I'm not always hopeful about the future of all US cities but god damn I am never this outright cynical about it.
Honestly, I'm not always hopeful about the future of all US cities but god damn I am never this outright cynical about it.
The way the nearly totally grade separated ex-MoPac now Union Pacific route through Austin essentially slices the city in half especially on the north end is pretty cursed. I'm all for grade separation but if your trying to cross it in anything other than a car your boned often.
July 22, 2023 at 7:55 PM
The way the nearly totally grade separated ex-MoPac now Union Pacific route through Austin essentially slices the city in half especially on the north end is pretty cursed. I'm all for grade separation but if your trying to cross it in anything other than a car your boned often.
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JUSTIN ROCZNIAK: So what this is called, is a cantilever
ALICE CALDWELL-KELLY: OK.
JUSTIN ROCZNIAK: And on September 12th,
LIAM ANDERSON: oh no
ALICE CALDWELL-KELLY: OK.
JUSTIN ROCZNIAK: And on September 12th,
LIAM ANDERSON: oh no
Hotel Panorama Resort. Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia. /r/brutalism
July 18, 2023 at 3:36 PM
JUSTIN ROCZNIAK: So what this is called, is a cantilever
ALICE CALDWELL-KELLY: OK.
JUSTIN ROCZNIAK: And on September 12th,
LIAM ANDERSON: oh no
ALICE CALDWELL-KELLY: OK.
JUSTIN ROCZNIAK: And on September 12th,
LIAM ANDERSON: oh no