A Philadelphia Summer on film (Cinestill 400d)

The SpaceX IPO is really going to be the first domino that takes everything down. >S&P 500 rules are waved to fast track SpaceX into the fund >Mutual Funds will be forced to buy SpaceX stock using retirement funds & 401ks Cont....

Conrail 2, except it's a shittier manifestation: ChudRail

Compared to the other half of Philly my ballot was very low stakes, but still go out and vote today to be heard!

So jealous because here in Philly it's been 2 years since a Doctor was killed in one of the busiest bike lanes in the city and our Mayor Cherelle Parker has yet to even change a single thing about those streets. What an embarrassment of a Mayor we have.

I was apparently way to optimistic 5 years ago

How badly did your section of the country fumble it's time and money on bad infrastructure? I made a very vibes based map on my travel experiences

Coming up next! Join us on Friday, April 24 at noon CDT for a virtual panel event with some of your favorite transit creators (Trains Are Awesome, Car Free Keith, and Alan Fisher). We'll explore the future of Amtrak, the role of influencers in train advocacy, and how to get everybody "all aboard."

There is a proposal in the Federal Department of Transportation right now to possibly break up Amtrak into 3 companies under a single holding company. Why? There are not many details at the moment, but I take a few guesses in this video: youtu.be/g53xTWjESyE

Amtrak's Newest Train on film Their "Airo" trainset in Cascades livery looks fantastic on Fuji 200

The Train that will define Amtrak for the next few decades has just arrived. Did they miss the mark or nail it on the first try? Lets talk about it in this video: youtu.be/8JxG6ttSOmA

Amtrak's Fleet is split by an east/west divide, with the Western Long Distance routes being dominated by Superliners. The Superliners will need a replacement, but there's a massive issue that we need to talk about in this new Armchair Urbanist Episode

This paint job radiates such incredible boomer energy that I'd expect the horn to just be a very loud "I just wanna grill for God's sake" yell

Btw tonight I'll be hosting a casual Chicago meetup at the Emporium Arcade bar in Logan Square at 7pm There will be plenty of urbanist and transit dorks here to hangout with

searching for the perfect record with @alanthefisher.bsky.social

Something something no seats

Federal Dollars went into the creation of the DC Streetcar. If it shuts down the Rolling stock should be a transfered to a city that actually needs it, like Memphis Memphis already runs a pantograph compatible system, but have had issues with their old museum fleet

Amtrak's next gen Acela brings increased Capacity, Higher Speeds, and Updated Interiors; but there's one trend that is haunting the North American Rail industry and unless it's reversed we're all in for a worse ride. I talk about it in today's video: youtu.be/jktlZ8706Bc

Really loving the right-wingers that spew violent rhetoric 24/7 suddenly saying that it's bad, or that making fun of Kirk (who also did these things), is bad. Don't be an incredibly shitty person and people won't celebrate your death. It's that easy.

I might have to make an apology video for Hochul since it seems she's done a 180 on everything including congestion pricing. Now if only she was more aggressive on the NY housing plan

If this asshole Lawyer actually gave a shit about SEPTA he'd be yelling at the Republicans instead of working with them. Absolutely a money chasing snake

I'm in DC for the weekend and we're having a small last minute meetup/hangout at the Dew Drop Inn, Tomorrow (Monday) at 6pm! The bar is also next to the CSX mainline and the metro so it's definitely entertaining

eventually I gotta make another video about VTA, every story I hear about them internally is 'The Office' levels of comedic stupidity

Brightline, come, join us

Amtrak is definitely smelling blood in the water for a very important rail corridor

A country isn't a real country if it doesn't have at least: - full sized Integrated steel mill - domestic auto manufacturer - domestic aircraft manufacturer - domestic train manufacturer - cross country Intermodal rail shipping - a nuclear power plant - a space program

I love Pennsylvania because you'll find random towns in the middle of nowhere that are more dense and walkable than every sunbelt city

A Hot Philly Summer on some expired film

For the big nerds and Foamers, We continue the History of American Railroading Electrification (and how we fumbled it), this time focusing on the WW2 to 1970s era thumbnail and poster art for this done by @scandinavian101.bsky.social Check out the video here:

Absolutely love how evil the red halation made the engine look Chasing Reading and Northern 2102 through the Poconos on Cinestill 400D

I wrote an Op-Ed about SEPTA funding and how our Agency is actually one of the most efficient in the country with handling money. The last thing we need is for SEPTA to get defunded, enjoy the gift link 🤙

Dropping content in a new format/medium today. Stand by

Today is fun, but there's still two more even funnier days to look forward to

I thought this was a Penn Station Track Diagram before reading the text

In the Newest Armchair Urbanist we need to talk about how bad Google Maps has gotten for Transit in general

Apparently a lot of farmers didn't bother to plant this year because of the tariffs, which in part caused the dust storm. Trump cause dust bowl

Philly is such an unserious place where my fastest walk home from the bar to the subway station passes the birthplace of the country

New Rendering of the Popemobile got leaked

It's kind of wild that Pennsylvania has an equivalent to Robert Moses and he's still alive and causing problems

I've avoided commenting about his channel, but this video is so ass that I might have to make something about it. Also this is absolutely part cope for the fact that the Dutch suck at building heavy rail metro

There's nothing Philadelphian's and Pennsylvanian's love more than shitting on our public services, but oftentimes those attitudes turn lies into publicly held beliefs. Let correct some myths about SEPTA today:

Ok I screwed up for LA and DC because of how their budget docs are written. This is now the fixed chart.

How Far do your tax dollars for Transit go? After people complaining over and over that SEPTA was inefficient, I had to run the numbers of Ridership to Operating budgets and would you look at that. Not only is SEPTA good with money, but they are literally the best in the US

If intermodal traffic wasn't getting nuked by tariffs this would indirectly be a pro rail freight policy lol

It's been 40 years since SEPTA has had any meaningful large expansion of the system 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Reminder that the SEPTA "Budget Deficit" is only a thing because the Republicans took the routine funding out of the state budget in 2022. So now they get to act like it's entirely SEPTA's fault instead of theirs

I will die for my country Philadelphia

There is a very stoned guy loudly playing SpongeBob on a tablet for a baby in a stroller that is watching it a third of the way down the M4 car. The MFL never disappoints

Car manufacturers try to not bloat the newer generation of a platform challenge: impossible

As Cheeto Benito sends the US into a recession, the cost of infrastructure projects will hurt new transit construction, so it's important to be frugal with how money is allocated. Today, I want to talk about the worst transit project in the US for this reason youtu.be/LZrrtF8Iy8k?...