#train news

[transit-fag]

Okay so Charlotte is looking at 4 different scenarios for how to spend the money from a 1 cent sales tax to be on this year's ballot, the CATS transit authority has come up with 4 scenarios

If you live in Charlotte, work to pressure CATS to choose the 1st or second scenarios where the Silver Line is built as Light rail, allowing Light rail access to the Charlotte Airport

Article for further reading below:

[etrangersvoyageant]

This morning there was a train accident in the Netherlands. So far, 1 person has died and 3 people are on the intensive care. The other people are mostly okay to the extent possible in these circumstances. The accident involves 2 trains (one for passengers, the other a freight train) and a construction vehicle and it happened between Leiden and The Hague, which is a pretty important route seeing it connects various cities south to Amsterdam. How this could have happened remains unclear. We've got quite the infrastructure for the trains and a lot of trains run on a daily basis, so it needs to be safe. There will be 2 investigations to shine light on the matter.

[animusrox]

"You Missed the Point by Idolizing Them" Starter Pack

[rightnewshindi]

ट्रेन के कोच से गिर कर घायल हुआ 30 वर्षीय यात्री, पायलट ने उल्टी ट्रेन चलाकर उठाया; अस्पताल पहुंचाकर आगे बढ़ी ट्रेन

Maharashtra News: रेलवे ने मानवता का एक अनोखा उदाहरण पेश किया है, जहां कोच से गिरे एक यात्री को लेने के लिए ट्रेन आधा किमी से ज्यादा रिवर्स में गई। मामला महाराष्ट्र का है। हालांकि, दुखद है कि जिस घायल यात्री को लेने के लिए ट्रेन ने अपनी दिशा बदल दी और पिछली कई ट्रेनें प्रभावित हुईं, उसकी इलाज के दौरान अस्पताल में मौत हो गई। टाइम्स ऑफ इंडिया की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, कोच से गिरे यात्री का नाम सरवर…

[gongyussy]

deepthroating a gun without breaking eye contact...... he put his entire gongyussy into that | SQUID GAME 2

+ the video because the sound he makes when he puts the gun in his mouth? [redacted]

update: he improvised that. the man really said i'll go full slut.

[auckie]

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1765391777580912958?s=20

PLEASE GD IF YOU LOVE AND WANT TRAINS

[socialnewsposts]

While showing stunts on the moving train, the young man opened his arms and legs! Click on the post for details!

The young man went viral on social media while performing a skating stunt on a moving train at a station in Mumbai. Seeing that it went viral for the first time, he faced danger while doing the stunt for the second time. While performing the stunt, Tarun lost both his arm and leg. The young man's name is Farhat Azam Sheikh who is a resident of Mumbai. The incident took place on July 14 in a Mumbai local train

[alpaca-dave]

good news for @amtrak-official

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

[ghostofbriggiesmalls]

Parking the All Bastards Are Cops train across from the Sheriff’s Department is cool as hell @amtrak-official

[transit-fag]

A bill has been proposed by Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson to have the federal government increase subsidies of Public transit by 80 billion dollars in major US cities to help systems recover from the post Covid decline in service and ridership. Allowing for an increase in frequency, and additional funding for passes for low income residents. The bill is called the Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act

[heartorbit]

MWAH!

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

Woah! Is that @kaylasartwork , @bubbleverseart , AND @nyxisart ? What is this, a New Years crossover episode? (Seriously, though. Thank you all for participating, your art is wonderful and getting to know y’all this winter has been delightful.)

It’s going to be a good year, 2025. And it’s going to be good because the queer community, all of us, are there for each other. Every single one of us is badass alone, and together we can weather anything.

[morebird]

[8pxl]

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[seafoamdew]

A bit late but Happy New Year all! 🥳 Year of the Dragon let’s gooooo 🐲🐲