#used up railways

[thegreatyin]

thinking about city scoundrel again. i know their city aesthetic is specifically auroral and not remembered but like. there's still gotta be Influences from the city body, right. there's just gotta be. anyway what i'm saying is i think the citizens personify the city by way of a little bat chasing a star, for no reason in particular

[boygirlctommy]

i couldnt upload the audio like a normal person so heres this. gonna try to animate to it tomorrow :P

[a-queer-rail-fan]

GWR Class 165 at Bourne End

[watcher-of-light-n-darkness]

the appearance of trains and train stations in media is being used to show the start, the end and the journey simultaneously because characters have been shown to start off in trains (beginning), travel in trains (growth) and then getting off the train at their stops (grown up/matured). Due to the number of people who uses trains to commute, in this essay I will-

[hyperfixation-tangentopia]

Help I have a project and I'm making progress on it and it feels a little too real what the fuck

[iamyounicorn]

there's this new passtime in fallen london that I'm kinda fixating on and it kinda feels like gambling but the only thing I'm betting (and losing 90% of the time) is my time

[restlessreveries]

I've arrived to the conclusion that trains are inherently gay in this game, 'cause building a straight railway is fucking impossible.

[the-busy-ghost]

No need to worry, the screams of fury emanating from her room are just because she made the terrible decision to read someone else’s list of the ‘100 Best Classic Fiction Works in English’

[iftitah]

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[rythyme]

This is a map of abandoned railroad lines in North America. The caption on the map notes that this data is incomplete. There are likely many more abandoned lines than just the ones shown here. (Source)

So do people realize that we aren't building new train tracks when we expand the amteak network, I have multiple times seen people say that we shouldn't expand the network because it would destroy protected lands, which would be a fair criticism but Amtrak doesn't build new tracks, we use existing tracks. We are not destroying protected lands, we are using land that has already been clear for a century

[throughpatchesofviolet]

It has been done!! I wish I'd recorded the last turn ... it took every single coin I set up to finish ... thank you to Heathcliff for having 10 Coffin so his tails hit on Requiem dealt exactly enough damage to leave the boss at 1 HP, ensuring his second coin sniped the kill.

[tiger-moran]

I found 2 Cool Rocks yesterday which looked sort of vaguely black and shiny and I thought might be flint but they were too dirt-covered to really identify but now I cleaned them up I'm thinking they may well be from the old railway that used to run across the bottom of the hill so that would make them Extra Cool Rocks if they actually had come from the railway.

[meowkol]

i recently have so many dreams about being left alone somewhere and being lost and everyone not listening to me and finding a little corner to cry in bc i dont know what to do

[myothertardisisonthemun]

A lot of things advertised as better cities are all talk, just so a housing developer can make a buck. They won't apply principles like walkable city beyond what sells.

"Walkable city" is not "City where to have to walk everywhere."

"Walkable city" is.

Sidewalks big enough to fit you, your stroller, your wheelchair, your guide dog, or anything else you need when you're getting from one place to another.

Safe crosswalks frequent enough so you don't need to walk in traffic.

Bike lanes to keep bikes out of foot traffic and car traffic.

Accessible and affordable public transit.

Cities where the essentials are close enough you can travel on foot (or in wheelchair)

Cities where it's reasonable to be able to get from point a to point b without requiring you, yourself, to drive

People get so caught up in the "Walkable" part of the term and like to spout "Walkable cities are abelist because not everyone can walk".

Bitch. The modern city structure is abelist because not everyone can drive. And classist because not everyone can afford a car and it's pretty damn impossible to get a job if you don't have a car.

Walkable cities are cities where people can reasonably get from pointA to pointB without requiring a motor vehicle.

"But fae. Disabled people have issues using the paths in modern cities." Bitch abled people can barely use the paths in modern cities. That's kind of the fucking problem.

Also walkable cities have fucking benches. Not only for disabled people. But sometimes you just twist your ankle and need to sit for a moment.

"Put fae. If you have benches, homeless people will sleep on them."

Then get fucking housing for the homeless. Problem solved. They'll sleep in their nice warm homes instead of on the benches.

-fae

[thehmn]

Not too long ago I made a post about the Sanded Church of Skagen that was abandoned due to being buried in sand, but the “sand problem” is much larger than the church.

If you look at Denmark on a map you might notice a white dot near the very top of the country.

That my friend is a huge sand dune that arose out of the sea 300 years ago and is slowly eating its way through the landscape at 18 meters a year.

And if you look closer you might notice that it’s heading straight for the towns Rannerød and Hulsig and when that happens no one will come to save them because the dune is protected. At least they’ll see it coming.

That means that in a few hundred years we won’t just have a sanded church, we’ll have sanded towns with more roofs and towers sticking out of the dune than any tourist bureau could wish for.

Because the dune is a very popular tourist spot. I myself have been to it a few times and it’s quite the experience for a child to suddenly be in a “desert” in Denmark.

If you feel sad for the people in the towns just remember that’s nature. The reason why the dune is protected is because the area used to have many more but people made an effort to destroy them and it fucked up the ecosystem in the area. The dunes leave moist wetland behind that loads of rare creatures thrive in.

So today the inevitable end of the towns are viewed as sort of romantic poetry about nature, the march of time and appreciating the now.

And isn’t it kinda beautiful? To know that something like this exists in the world that will destroy our towns, roads and railways that we could easily eradicate with our modern technology but we choose not to simply because we know it would be wrong.

[karmaphone]

call me whiny but they really didn't need to make the travois that restrictive