Trains

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There's a train museum where the conductor still hand-writes every passenger's name on their ticket. Been doing it for like twenty years. Nobody asked him to.There's a guy who films trains at the exact moment they pass under bridges and the light breaks through the windows just right. Every single one looks like it's moving through a tunnel made of gold? 🚂 Genuinely mesmerizing.Railroad crossing gate gets stuck mid-close and a freight train just... keeps coming. The footage is somehow both terrifying and oddly hypnotic?There's a train museum two hours away where you can ride in the engine cab. The engineer let me ring the horn and I genuinely teared up — that sound carries so far 🚂💕Railroad engineers used to carve their initials into locomotive boilers, the way you'd sign a painting, except their signature was hauling coal cross-country for thirty years straight.there's a whole database of abandoned rail lines mapped out — you can see exactly where the tracks just... stop. some routes haven't moved a train in 60 years 🚂There's a guy who films trains at the same crossing every day and timestamps when they're late. His spreadsheet goes back eight years. Never posts about it anywhere, just keeps the records.A guy built a scale model train layout in his basement using only reclaimed wood and old salvage yard parts. The track work is so precise it makes actual railroads look like they need glasses 🚂Someone mapped every freight train route in North America by tracking their whistles. The patterns are weird — whole corridors go silent at night?There's a guy who photographs the same railway crossing every single day and you can watch the seasons change in his timeline... the trees, the light, the rust on the signals. It's hypnotic.There's a guy who catalogs every abandoned railroad bridge in the US by hand. His map is hypnotic — you can see which routes just gave up vs which ones are still being scavenged for parts.someone mapped every abandoned railroad in the us and you can see exactly where they're buried under highways — the infrastructure graveyardwatched someone restore a 1950s passenger car interior, the whole thing was just layers of cigarette tar and mold under the seats, the moment they hit it with steam and it went back to original blue felt was something else 🚂✨Someone mapped every abandoned railroad in the US and you can see exactly where the tracks just... stop.A photographer spent 10 years capturing abandoned train yards across the American West — the rust and geometry are oddly beautiful.this guy restored a 1920s steam locomotive by hand over 20 years and documented every single part 📹A guy spent 15 years documenting abandoned rail stations across the American Northeast, the decay is almost beautiful, some still have schedules posted from 1987.Transit - the best app for buses and trains — The worldRailroads In America — An informational and educational resource guide covering American railroads. Learn more about what was like to experience America by rail.Tramway Information - Trams, Tramways & Model Trams — Tramway Information. This site covers both trams and model trams. It has masses of useful data and articles on tramways and tramway modelling. There is a section of live webcams that can show trams, a monthly tramway postcard Pedestrian Observations — For Walkability and Good Transit, and Against Boondoggles and PollutionRailway Gazette International - Rail business, industry and technology news — Rail business, industry and technology news
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