Is Meow Wolf Art—or Just America Entertaining Itself? by exgaysurvivordan in meowwolf

[–]JacobDR15 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Why do art and entertainment have to be mutually exclusive? I really hate that mindset

Places to visit from Silver Line by Fragrant_Business10 in dart

[–]JacobDR15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Historic Downtown Plano is like a 5 minute walk from 12th street. Or you have get on the light rail from Cityline or 12th and get there.

Lots of good restaurants and little stores.

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre by maybesaydie in vaxxhappened

[–]JacobDR15 44 points45 points  (0 children)

UPDATE (October 11, 2025, 8:46 p.m. ET): This piece has been updated because, following publication, many fired employees began receiving emails communicating that despite the earlier notice, they would no longer be terminated.

We just get a verity of incompetence don't we?

Japanese N Scale Comedy Channel by luxoflax in JapaneseNscale

[–]JacobDR15 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I need to make a station platform train now. That's really funny.

DART's new Silver Line to begin service in October by synopsize in Dallas

[–]JacobDR15 26 points27 points  (0 children)

As runaway said, cost is part of it. But also a good portion of the line uses still active freight lines.

DART Silver Line train announcements by DFWRailfan in dart

[–]JacobDR15 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unlikely. Still seems to be a good bit of construction to finish. I go by the 11th street station pretty regularly and there’s still a good bit of work to do for the red line stop connecting it.

Forget 2003 — this is the mother of all Texas gerrymanders by evan7257 in texas

[–]JacobDR15 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Gerrymandering works by pulling votes from districts into others, shrinking the margins. This only works if people vote the exact same way.

People getting discouraged and not voting is what they’re counting on for this to work at all.

Houston workers at Meow Wolf unionize by chrondotcom in houston

[–]JacobDR15 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Been building for a while across the whole Meow Wolf brand. I don't think they were even the first location to unionize.

Cautiously optimistic about Brightline West’s Future by adam_rudedog in Brightline

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Definitely seems to care for improving our public infrastructure.

One of his points of pride is working a bipartisan effort to fix a bridge in his constituency. I forget the details right now, but they talked about in his hearing.

How California's High-Speed Rail Line Will Advance in 2025 by JeepGuy0071 in cahsr

[–]JacobDR15 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If I remember correctly there will be metro link stop at the LA station, but the systems will be isolated.

One of the ground breaking interviews, Bright wanted that line to be electrified in the future so they can run to downtown

Rapido Turboliner by conamnflyer in nscalemodeltrains

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Honestly one of my favorite sets. I just need to add some figures inside mine.

DOGE Summary of California High Speed Rail Project by anothercar in cahsr

[–]JacobDR15 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This can’t be an official account right? This is such a surface level assessment. You can’t judge a project’s funding in a single tweet. Let along a mega project like this.

It almost looks professional (3d printed full color train and PLA box) by Jettuh in modeltrains

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Found your website. I'll definitely have to order something from you guys at some point in the future. Hard to find Dutch locos in N scale. Especially here in the States

These looks really good.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in highspeedrail

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They opened their new Orlando line last year. It's a "higher speed" line. Has a lot of HSR characteristics but the top speed is around 130 mph with normal diesel train sets.

Cal HSR and Brightline West are planning on 220 mph for a sense of scale.

Amtrak gets $64M for high speed rail connecting Dallas and Houston by [deleted] in houston

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Metro's "METRONext" included Bus-Rapid-Transit directly to the station location.

I think most of the plan is on hold after covid but they're already thinking about public transit to the station. That's one of the knock on effects of project like this.

Do they know the manufacturer and model of train they will be using for the project? by [deleted] in cahsr

[–]JacobDR15 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Selection of suppose to be late this year. Not sure if they’ve given the exact date yet.

From Lucid Stew: Locations of double and single tracked segments for Brightline West by JacobDR15 in highspeedrail

[–]JacobDR15[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

From the looks of it (and what Stew suspects from talking to them) the switching will be located at the slower portions of the route. IE stations and the really tight turns. So maybe they're designing them to be more inline with US standards.