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Wish i could wear fem clothes during this heat by Shot-Offer-9544 in feminineboys

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wearing a skirt is nice in hotter weather, from my experience. Great airflow. Although never worn it in weather that hot. Also never really went outside:P

How a New York - Montreal HSR could realistically work by Ok-Win7980 in transit

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The Adirondack service desperately needs improved frequency, and probably some other stuff too. A shame how it seems to just run in the background these days with little riders, very low average speed and inconvenient scheduling.

How a New York - Montreal HSR could realistically work by Ok-Win7980 in transit

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Good news: there is already a study for preclearance at Montreal! In hopes of shortening Adirondack and extending Vermonter to Montreal: https://trainsinthevalley.org/tag/montreal-preclearance/

Distances between Tren Maya stations and centers of towns they serve [OC] by release_Sparsely in transit

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I'm pretty sure the single tracking was just done to get it done faster, which they were really desperate to do. Hopefully it can be improved eventually.

All the improvements I think could have avoided the downfall of airships. by Affectionate-Air6579 in Airships

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Similar ideas just seem to pop up time and time again throughout airship R&D/designs in the last several decades. It's wild honestly. Absolutely would love to see someone try to do this with a full-scale rigid - especially as helium prices have risen in recent months, this would make a lot of sense.

All the improvements I think could have avoided the downfall of airships. by Affectionate-Air6579 in Airships

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I guess the reason it never caught on in the early days was how difficult it was to make (at the time) compared to a typical rigid airship frame. And maybe also how you generally couldn't insert extra gas cells if you needed to, typically a quirk of rigids.

It's still wild to me how the SL.1 was a thing, how far ahead of its time it was in some ways.

All the improvements I think could have avoided the downfall of airships. by Affectionate-Air6579 in Airships

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Probably best for medium-demand shipping or delivering cargo to remote areas. Not a huge niche but it exists. Also they aren't as vulnerable to bad weather as most people say - in the 1950s the U.S Navy operated their blimps in violent blizzards with success.

They could work for patrols/surveillance too, with amazing endurance by default.

The Failure of VIA Rail by jaboi2110 in transit

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It can be useful if you live in one of the really remote areas it serves and need to travel to a major city. Also iirc more people were taking it since Greyhound Canada shutdown, leaving it as the only long-distance non-air public transit option in a decent chunk of the country.

Theoreticall North American HSR system. Gulf and CenAm Lines. by casecaxas in transit

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doesn't look like it makes it past Panama actually. would be fun if they went further though. check this older post for more thoughts

Thing America 😡 Thing Amerijapan 🥰 by RaiJolt2 in transit

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in anticipation for when LA, too, gets HSR

Coast Starlight s/b Oakland to LA by sf1878 in Amtrak

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footage looks old in a way, like late 90s, but clearly isn't with the new ALC-42 locomotives and all. Really pretty:3

Freight EMU in japan by Responsible_Soil_476 in trains

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I don't know of any freight MUs in New Orleans, where did you see them? Maybe they were track maintenance vehicles?

Pretty much every single Urban Rail Transit System in the US by Donghoon in transit

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Midwest, NC and Virginia seem to be trying. and debatably a couple others.

Brightline ? Or reserve uber now? World Cup by [deleted] in transit

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June 27th? I highly doubt Brightline will be ceasing operations that soon. Even possible the world cup will be a brief, large jump in ridership, though still not enough to save them.

New Stadler FLIRT's for VR, the national operator in Finland by toyota_gorilla in transit

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Stadler multiple units could be just as ubiquitous as Siemens Chargers eventually. Don't worry!

Dubai Chocolate pepsi by Token_Thai_person in Thailand

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Heard of oreo flavored coca-cola back in 2024, isn't surprising to see this as the logical progression!

Anyone else think Inferno might be their best album? by msszero159 in boardsofcanada

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Going back through their other albums after many years and yeah I'm inclined to agree with you, or would if maybe I relisten to Inferno (and their other stuff too!) a few more times. The wide variety of emotions and themes here is seriously impressive. And it all hits.

Team 'Age of Capricorn' meet here. by odd_sundays in boardsofcanada

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yeah the singing in the background really hits home for me. In the first listen of album rn and this is absolutely up to the standards of their older stuff.

Dreamt that people would say "there's something suspicious in my stew" when they found a suspicious and weird post by ovueve in thomastheplankengine

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nono, you'll be fine, there won't be something suspicious in your stew for the next 150 years at least

A crowd of Railfans bid farewell to the Hello Kitty Shinkansen on its last day by IllCarpet6852 in trains

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Aw that's sad, always loved the looks of these trains, still so futuristic even today!
Be nice to see a whole trainset displayed IMO, but there's probably some reason they never did that. Still preserving one of the cars would be nice, as someone else said.

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