#north south commuter rail

[realtyhubph-blog]

North-South Commuter Railway Updates

You definitely should see this 😍 Just picture yourself traveling north on the NSCR train, with the breathtaking view of Mt. Arayat 😃 📍 North-South Commuter Railway (North Bound)Meycauayan and Marilao Station Dotr #PNR #Dmci #NSCRProject #Meycauayan #MarilaoBulacan #Marilao #Bocaue #MtArayat #Pampanga credits to: Ken Jover

[deadpanwalking]

Sounds like you need to take your own advice and learn to fuckjng drive bitch

I do see both the wisdom in your advice and the good intentions with which you dispensed it, but when I said I literally cannot fucking drive, I wasn't being figurative in the sense of being a Gay Who Can't Drive, I was being literal, in the sense of only being gay incidentally, but having a plot-relevant neuroanatomical condition which precludes driving safely.

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

Trains? >:3

TRAINS :D

[fhistle]

when i start to feel hopeless i start naming the train lines they're building in manila just so I have smth to hope gfor

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

Me at a still-north-of-Seattle transit center, looking around and noticing a whole new fucking light link rail behind the transit center with trains coming and going on it: WAIT. THAT'S A THING NOW???? ARE THEY DONE????? CAN I USE THAT YET???????????? PLEASE...

Turned out...no, they will not be in operation until halfway through September. So I guess they're just testing the new rail and the trains. But, SIGH, it would make my travel plans so much faster and easier...

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

These are DC power right?

1500 Volts DC just like the South Shore Railroad rather than the 12,000 Volts AC used elsewhere

This one is the Old South Shore Railroad in Indiana and is an Essential service for getting commuters into Chicago

However these lower one each use a different electrical system some use the 12,000 Volts AC but others use 750 Volt third rail or 3000 Volts DC used by the Lackawanna Railroad

And also the AC lines use a mixture of 60 and 25 Hertz traction systems

And of the course the M2/M4/M6 and M8 are multi voltage and can switch between multiple different electrical systems

2023.5.30~12.15 東京 埼玉　西武新宿線 西武拝島線

西武新2000系 本川越・拝島側の小窓

西向きか北向きなので曇り・雨の日か、逆光が多い

[transit-fag]

Hello Amtrak! As a car owner and user, my usage of the trains in MA and RI is very limited, but friend and I opted for taking the commuter rail from the Mansfield station down to Providence for Pride last Saturday to avoid traffic. This was a great experience except for when we tried to go home at 7:00 and accidentally boarded the Amtrak (Had no idea y’all shared the station with the commuter rail so we just thought this was the 6:58 prov/Stoughton line) Once boarded and a lovely gentleman came to scan our tickets, he pointed out we were on the wrong train (thank you kind sir!) He continues walking down the line and we stand up to exit the train. However, this is where my thrilling tale gets interesting! The door to exit the train car is closed and locked, so we turn to look back for help. The gentleman then shouts to us that we are not listening and to sit back down? Very confused and now embarrassed for being called out in front of all these nice people we sit back down. Reminder that we’re just trying to get from Providence to Mansfield and the Mansfield station is not on the Amtrak map. My phone is at 4% because I’m a garbage poor person who can’t buy a new iPhone and i am frantically trying to figure out where this train is actually headed as we are now being held hostage on it. Thankfully we’re heading north, but the next stop won’t be until Westwood! (This is many miles past Mansfield) The previously mentioned gentleman is nowhere to be seen and we can’t find another employee to unlock the door and let us out. We watch the actual commuter rail train pull into the station and leave without us as we are LOCKED INSIDE THE AMTRAK????? Train pulls out and we’re off. Fast forward to Westwood, we’re allowed off and then got to wait another 45 minutes at that station until the next train south arrives. Overall very mixed reviews as your train did have Wi-Fi so i was able to figure out where we were headed without my phone dying and leaving us truly stranded and was also very comfy. Unfortunately the kidnapping and holding two innocent queers hostage inside the train car was a little bit of a downer. Hilarious situation in hindsight though so 9/10 stars

This was a journey just to read

[sanctus-ingenium]

Inver - relief map relative to the continent with otherworld territory marked, broad habitat map, detailed local landmarks map, and political map of the northeast atlantic peninsula as of 1862

i was just having map fun for two days lol. i make habitat maps a lot already but the difference with this one is that i can't just download a handy shapefile and do some GIS magic. this was hand drawn (but obviously. somewhat traced over the actual irl map)

for the outline of the north sea coast i used bathymetry data to figure out where the true coastline would occur. the north sea recedes but the atlantic doesn't (to the same extent). because this landmass was formed through some ancient Event, i felt pretty okay about changing the bedrock because like, whatever, we can't be fully realist all the time. so the northern half of inver is mainly limestone, the southern half is silicaceous - so we got the bog/marl divide there, though lough cánamac (in volume slightly larger than any of the north american great lakes) appears to be the remnant of the north sea, it is freshwater with a relatively low pH. the water of the lough is black to dark brown due to the run-off from the southern bogs and swamps.

in the north, the mountain ranges are calcareous. calcareous grassland, scrubland, heaths and fens dominate with a largely alkaline profile. limestone marl lakes which regularly flood due to groundwater input make the region pretty unsuitable for crops other than rice.

the ruad is the name for a stretch of otherworld territory which contains the lough, though generally used to refer to the forested area. it is completely uninhabitable throughout the majority of its range due to the non-euclidian structure of the land making it impossible to navigate consistently, and the strange and frequently hostile creatures living there. the ruad is faery territory and belongs to an entity known as the Red King, who uses the symbol of a stag. so although inver may look like a large country compared to its neighbours, it has a relatively small population concentrated on the west coast.

however, sailing across the lough is the quickest way to trade with countries in the east, far quicker than trekking through the forest and over land. the trade route through the ruad from invergorken to the cánamac town is one of the most valuable in the continent. it consists of an old road with regularly-spaced ranger safehouses and patrols, and a newer pair of railway lines which can cut through the supernatural aura of the ruad due to their iron rails. the first and older line is no longer in regular use. it was constructed before the development of wrought iron and before the build crews learned how to blast through rock, so it takes a very slow and winding route and required a lot of maintenance. safehouses were constructed to board the workers while the tracks were laid. but without this original track, the construction of the second, far more advanced wrought iron track would have been impossible. workers for the second track were able to commute and sleep on the first track's train, keeping them from harm. the second track can fit two trains side by side and is in constant use ferrying cargo and passengers between the two towns

the country of inver, once The Event wiped out all of its original inhabitants a couple thousand years ago, was settled by hibernians and vikings from the north moving south, and aquitanians from the south moving north (thus the place names). the ruad mostly blocked incursions from the east. there was a long history of dispute over who truly owned the land, and that remained sort of up in the air for most of its history until the 1400s when armorican warlords (like Olivier) decided to make it theirs for realsies and waged war against their old hibernian trade partners (like Finbarr) for control of the land. the hibernians lost because finbarr fucked it up at the last second, and this cemented a ruling class of werewolves in inver until the 1860s

inver consists of three large duchies which cover 70% of the population. Moya in the west is the heart of lycanthrope rule, everybody worships a faery known as the immortal hound and the ruad is far enough away that it is not a fact of life as it is for everyone else. Inver duchy covers the capital city and the south-western farmland, the main sites of production in the country. And Cánamac duchy covers the trade port in the lough and surrounding territories, where forest clearing has led to new farmland and a thriving population. There was a fourth duchy in the north, Aber, but it was historically somewhat isolated and cut off from the south of the country and had developed its own customs and traditions, and its own form of the country's currency. In the 1840s, the duchy of Aber was dissolved and reconstituted into the king's lands, and southern customs were enforced in the north to prevent any more divergence. the palaces of the ruling families in each territory are shown in the local map alongside the family names.

Due to The Event causing massive damage in this region of Europe, forbidding the development of britain and france etc as colonial empires, the last great Empire of this continent was the roman empire, and even that didn't manage to overcome the Ruad. technology is rudimentary in Inver and the people living there are largely considered to be weird backwards superstitious barbarians. aquitan has been threatening annexation for decades, led mainly by the church of suzette, which forbids interaction with otherworld entities. the church holds in disregard the nobility of inver and their cultish ways, and as a result has been banned from attempting to convert inver citizens. but the church is still allowed to make minor inroads into inver for one very important reason: penicillin and antibiotics are the sole creation of the church, and the secret of how they are made is unknown outside suzette. so for the sake of good, advanced healthcare, the church is allowed to set up clinics and hospitals, on the condition that nobody is converted, and members of the church are strictly banned from engaging in any business but importing and selling antibiotics

[railwayhistorical]

Along the Hudson River This is simply a wonderful spot on the face of the earth—we’re north of Cold Spring, New York, along the Hudson River, at Breakneck Ridge. Metro North still stops here, mainly for the benefit of hikers who want to explore the rugged landscape in this area (known as the Hudson Highlands). The “station” stop is just south of where the first photograph was taken with a few trains making stops each way, each day on the weekend. The land mass visible behind the southbound train in the first image is called Pollepel Island, and the structure thereon is called Bannerman Castle. The second photograph was taken the same afternoon at the same location—but looking south. It shows a Metro North commuter train headed north, most likely headed for Poughkeepsie. Also visible in the image, across the river, is the dramatic and massive form of Storm King Mountain. The model of locomotive, seen in both photographs, is interesting as well—the EMD FL9 was a unit designed specifically to be used for New York’s Grand Central Terminal—the destination for these trains at the time. [I believe all Amtrak trains traveling the water-level route currently end up at Penn Station now.] This unique engine is diesel-electric but also has a pick-up “shoe” for the electrified third-rail. This way the diesel prime-mover could be shut off or at least idled when in the tunnels under Madison Avenue and in the bowels of the massive terminal itself. Two images by Richard Koenig; taken in August of 1988.

[mbta-unofficial]

ok wait i am fully sold on the north station/south station connection through cambridge and i've lived in boston most of my life and have had no idea what that bridge over the charles is for...so does it connect up to the commuter rail tracks like under I-90?

It’s an old freight rail line but the right of way is intact and connects the yard at boston landing to the yard at Community College. I’d have to talk with people more knowledgeable about the property situation there to see how the land is owned but going south to north nonstop through boston would be easiest if it were refurbished.

The problem is money. Where are people going that a nonstop route through boston is so valuable? the answer is kinda just maine: Even canada is more accessible through New York because there are less mountains in the way and if it’s truly non-stop it doesn’t matter where you travel through. Conversely, if it isn’t non-stop, taking the orange line to the red line isn’t that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. Sure it’d be faster but only by 30-40minutes.

In the short term, the most valuable thing that could be done with it is non-revenue moves, where equipment and cars and such can be shuffled around more efficiently. Currently the north south connection that exists for non-revenue moves is (I think) in waltham, and a closer connection would increase speed quite a bit. However, non-revenue moves aren’t particularly good in the first place, even if they are necessary at some level, so building out infrastructure to make them easier isn’t always a winning proposition.

It’s unlikely we see any major developments here. The best thing that could happen would honestly be a circle line routed across that bridge, but no such plan exists right now. Something happening there is much more likely than a north-south connection though, which has all the same problems and is in a harder to build location.

[sourcreammachine]

this is fucking deranged

this is baso one train interchange why does it look like this

[ID: extract from National Rail's supplement to the london tube map, with commuter rail lines as well as the tube. this extract shows that map's depiction of the king's cross st pancras and euston area, large rail interchanges extremely close to each other that together become the busiest heavy rail terminus in the uk. both euston and KCSP, and the nearby farringdon, are depicted as an 'internal interchange', which means there are platforms connected by tunnels, as opposed to a regular interchange with multiple entrances on the surface. internals are depicted as circles connected solid bars, while externals are simply one circle. euston and farringdon have two connected circles, while KCSP has six. euston is also connected via a dashed line to ‘euston square’, indicating the two stations are less than ten minutes apart and foot traffic is encouraged (‘square’ is actually literally just outside the entrance of euston). the western lobe of euston is depicted as the terminus of the Lioness Line (orange) and the northwestern railway (lime with bars), which emerge from the station going northwest, depicted as being attached to each other. passing through this lobe is the western branch of the Northern Line (black). the eastern lobe of euston depicts the other branch of the Northern Line, coming from the north but turning east at euston to travel to KCSP, intersecting with the Victoria Line (azure), coming from the southeast before also turning east at euston to run parallel to the Northern Line towards KCSP, though with a gap between the two. no rail termini emerge from the western lobe of euston. the next stop on the western branch of the Northern Line after (western) euston is warren street, which also is the next stop for the Victoria Line after eastern euston, creating a right-angle triangle with the Victoria, western Northern, and the euston internal interchange. to western euston’s southwest via the ten-minute walk dashed line is euston square, which is an interchange for three tube lines, the Hammersmith City (salmon), the Circle (yellow), and the Metropolitan (dark magenta) all of which run next to each other horizontally. the three lines cross the northern-victoria-euston triangle without stopping at euston itself, towards KCSP.

KCSP is an intimidating Y shape of six lobes - three in a vertical line, then two emerging on the northwest spoke and one on the northeast. despite the name of this underground station, drawn as the internal interchange, being ‘king’s cross st pancras’, the giant Y is actually not labelled this at all - the western fork hovers near the label ‘st pancras international’ while the eastern hovers near ‘king’s cross’, and the southern fork remains unlabelled. the southernmost lobe of KCSP is for the glued-together Hammersmith, Circle and Metropolitan from euston square (not euston proper), after which the lines turn southeast to farringdon. this lobe also is for the Piccadilly line (navy), which comes from the northeast before turning south - the only Piccadilly stop in the KCSP-euston area. the middle of the three vertical lobes is for the Northern, travelling east from euston - and nothing else. the northernmost of the vertical lobes is for the Victoria - and absolutely nothing else. the Victoria crosses the Northern at euston whilst travelling diagonally, but then deliberately creates itself a gap before turning horizontal, to reach a separate lobe from the Northern due to KCSP being an internal interchange. both the Northern and Victoria politely duck under the Piccadilly after KCSP. from the Victoria lobe emerges the two spokes for king’s cross and st pancras international. King’s Cross is the terminus of the Great Northern (golden-brown, bars) and a branch of the Thameslink (maroon, bars), both heading north but separated by a tiny gap from each other. the first of the two lobes for SPI is the terminus for HS1 (blue, bars of yellow), which is absolutely not a commuter line - it goes to bloody Paris. this lobe is also bisected by a different branch of the Thameslink, going vertically, after which it sails over the Victoria, Northern and the triple glued-together lines, immediately after which it turns southeast, over the Piccadilly to farringdon. HS1 and this Thameslink out of SPI are once again separated by a tiny gap. the western lobe of SPI is the terminus of the EMR (cyan, bars), which emerges due north. the gap between the EMR and Thameslink is almost imperceptibly larger than the gap between Thameslink and HS1. after the lowest lobe of KCSP with which they intersect the Piccadilly, the triple lines (Hammer., Circle, Metro.) turn southeast to the northeasternmost of farringdon’s two lobes, with which they intersect nothing. this lobe is connected via an internal interchange to another, which is where it intersects the Thameslink coming from SPI, but also the Elizabeth Line (violet)/end ID]

[0x4468c7a6a728]

Northeast corridor, what do you know of it either way I will tell you

The Northeast corridor is the longest electrified mainline in the western hemisphere it stretches from Washington DC to Boston the line is 457 miles long (735 kilometers) and is the busiest passenger rail corridor in north America it is Electrified with 3 different voltages 12kV 25Hz AC between DC union station and New Rochelle, 12.5kV 60Hz between New Rochelle and New Haven, and 25kV 60Hz between New haven and Boston South Station

These different sections all have different ownership and where Electrified at different points the New Rochelle to New Haven section is the oldest and was Electrified in 1910 by the New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad originally at 11kV 25Hz AC (however the voltage was boosted and was increased to grid frequency in the 1970s)

the line between DC union and New Rochelle was all owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad and was Electrified in Pieces starting 1912 with the Philadelphia to Paoli section and that Pennsy owned trackage was fully Electrified by 1934

However after the collapse of the Frankenstein Penn Central (the Merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad with the New Haven and New York Central Railroad's) the line was taken over by state run passenger agencies like NJ Transit, and the two new federally owned railroad's Amtrak and Conrail

Conrail ran freight on the NEC using the E33 and E44 electric Locomotives until 1981 and Amtrak took over the Northeast Regional and commuter trains were taken over by SEPTA, NJ Transit, Metro North, The Long Island Railroad, CTrail, MARC, and MBTA

That has been an infodump about The Northeast corridor

i love the northeast corridor so i did know most of this but i appreciate train

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

:3

transgender blast

:3

[runawaymarbles]

im thinking of moving to seattle to be with my partner! do you have any advice to share abt the area? (for context: i havent spent much time there at all, but im gay, im cool, i love nature & punk rock, you get the idea)

- buy some rain pants, especially if you bicycle

- look at public transit before you sign a lease; the closer you are to a light rail station the easier your life will be, but what bus lines you’re on is also important, especially if you don’t have a car

- cap hill is still where all the gay bars are

- if you need to do any east/west commuting or go around the north end of the lake your life is going to be a lot easier if you have a car.

- there is no point buying a car that isn’t AWD imo.

- i5 south is and will be a parking lot between 2 and 6pm if you live north of the ship canal bridge. If you live south of downtown you’ll have the same problem with 5 north.

- (we call it i5 or just 5. If you call it The 5 people WILL make fun of you.)

- remember that we do get earthquakes here when you’re arranging your furniture. Not often, especially compared to California, but they happen. We are waiting for The Big One. It’s kind of pointless to live in fear or The Big One, in my opinion, but it doesn’t hurt to have emergency supplies and a plan. If you’re planning to buy a house at any point, check the foundation & the maps of the fault lines.

- the arboretum is lovely but never ever leave anything valuable in your car there

- most places do not have built in a/c. If you want an a/c unit buy one during the spring, BEFORE it hits 90 for a week and everyone panic buys.

- ditto to air purifiers. There’s smoke for a week or two every summer these days. Your life will be easier if you already have one.

- if you see mount rainier it is your sworn duty to turn to the person next to you and say “the mountain’s out!”

- we put cream cheese and onions on our hot dogs and I promise you it’s delicious

- people are going to tell you that going downtown is foolish, a brush with death, asking to be shot, etc. But most people are going to ignore you if you ignore them. Use a standard amount of caution. It’s fine.

- the showbox on pike is the best music venue

- it’s called “pike market” and not “pike place” and for the love of Christ not “pike’s place”

- the streets downtown as you walk north go JJCCMMSSUUPP, (James Jackson cherry Columbia Marion Madison etc) which you can remember with the phrase “Jesus Christ made Seattle under protest”

- idk if you want more specific types of things, you’re welcome ask, but that’s what I got off the top of my head!

[aryburn-trains]

In 2001 GO Transit borrowed (leased) equipment from Miami area's Florida Tri-Rail and Vancouver's West Coast Express. A train of this leased equipment was photographed the week after "9-11" heading north along the west bank of the lower Don River. Vantage point was Eastern Avenue bridge. It had departed Union Station eastward a few minutes earlier and would make station stops terminating at Richmond Hill. Florida Tri-Rail was equipped with bi-level coaches in the same colour scheme as GO Transit except for Tri-Rail emblems. Potentially this made it easier to sell the coaches (to GO) if the South Florida commuter train service was not viable. However Tri-Rail's 480 Volt HEP (matching Amtrak, VIA, etc) is incompatible with GO's 575 Volt system.

September 17, 2001

[greatnorthernofficial]

Broke: electric battery cars, busses, trucks, and trains, that use volatile and unrenewable batteries that wear down and expire. Mass transit is sidelined in favor of everyone owning an EV, roads are just as awful and sprawling as ever.

Woke: Trolleys. Interurbans. Lightrail. Doodlebugs. Passenger trains. Local freight. High speed express routes. All powered by overhead catenary electric lines, fed by fast burning Thorium nuclear reactors.

Fact: at one point, a determined traveler could step onto an interurban train in Maine and travel all the way to Chicago. There is no reason, except the greed of fuel and automobile manufacturers, that this system had to be removed. And yet there is only one such system left! The South Shore is the last of these original routes left, serving from North Chicago to South Bend. There are of course commuter lines, in major cities, but these are on the decline as well, through neglect and removal of funding. We NEED to connect communities, businesses, and the very nation with rail travel again, and electric is the way to go. Just not with batteries! So easily we forget overhead electric lines.