trains

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Travel for this past Sunday’s rout of the New York Giants looked a bit different for Jackson and the Ravens, who improved to 9-5 on the season before returning to Baltimore ahead of Saturday’s marquee rematch with the Pittsburgh Steelers that could decide the division. They chartered a private Amtrak train out of Baltimore’s historic Penn Station. Turns out a lot of the players prefer it to flying — at least for shorter trips.

Moving trucks, likely carrying equipment, still left the team’s Owings Mills practice facility Friday afternoon. But the whole team, including trainers and staff, made the roughly two-hour-and-change train ride north, according to a team spokesman. Some players said that train travel is physically less demanding on the body, while others like that it’s easier to hang out with each other in a train car than in a plane cabin.

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In the first month of its electric train service, Caltrain saw over 753,000 passengers — a 54% increase from October 2023 and its best ridership numbers since the coronavirus pandemic, according to new figures released by the transit agency.

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lemmy suggested the title. It's Finnish 'Log into facebook'. Just an old train picture a local meteorologist posted on fb. works for me

with train noise

Union Pacific Big Boy steam locomotive, the largest operating steam locomotive in the world. This absolute unit is 26 meters long and weighs 600 tons when including its tender. It came around in 1941 after other locomotives were unable to pull trains up steep slopes in the Wasatch Mountains on their own, requiring help from other locomotives. The 4-8-8-4 Big Boy, with its tractive effort of 135,375 lbf, could do it alone. 25 were built in total, and they traveled millions of miles moving materials crucial to the war effort

video with train wrecks

https://macdermottsargentina.tur.ar/argentina-travel-blog/things-to-do/the-cloud-train/

played around their switchyard as a kid. hopped a few trains

I booked a train to Germany. 2 hours before my train even started at it’s origin station, it was already announced that it will be delayed in the station where I need to change (6 hours from now).

I have no way to get the money for my seat reservation back, despite that the journey has not even started yet and despite me and the train company assuming right now, that I’ll miss the train.

It’s an infuriating system and I hate the German train company.

I probably wouldn’t be able to wait and reserve a seat for the train that I can actually catch, because the trains are hopelessly overbooked. I can only hope, that someone misses the next train, that I have to take instead, just like I missed mine and find a free reserved seat there.

one of their switchyards was in my hometown. still a switchyard there but don't know who owns it. this from 1989