And there we have it: all of Canada's Commuter Rail network! 🇨🇦🚆 jeffkess.com/tracks

Bike sticker reigns supreme. (And state number eight for the #FoldingBike!)

Tonight, we bid adeiu to @septaphilly.bsky.social express service on the very last Thorndale Express. COVID may have killed the Great Valley Flyer, but this end of express service (and more) is due entirely to budget cuts. RIP. Soon to be gone, but not forgotten — hopefully not far from a return!

Now Playing: "One Day More" from Les Misérables #RIPTA

"Y'all aboard" the inaugural Amtrak Mardi Grad from Mobile, AL to New Orleans!

241, 251, 261, 562

In January, I finished riding every mile of Commuter/Regional Rail in the US. Then @SMARTtrain extended their service to Windsor, CA. I knew what I had to do. (Soon to be updated on jeffkess.com/tracks!)

This is dangerous. #APTARail

Flight landed early, so here goes: the elusive train from ORD!

I know I said I was done on this trip. I lied. Just for good measure, the entire Roslagsbanan system ✅ Now to make it back to Stockholm… and hopefully make my flight in 3.5 hours. Wish me luck!

Going to get home super late, but a final system on this trip: all of the Stockholm Tunnelbana ✅

Final time: 8h, 22 min More like a racewalk than a speedrun covering Stockholm's entire Pendeltåg CR network in one go (…not that I know of any official attempts).

A little thing I've been working on recently: real-time stringlines for the London Underground, using data from the Trackernet API: trackernet-stringlines.choochoo.systems

Me: "No I'm not going to ride the whole tram system in Oslo (in addition to the metro); that would be insane." Also me: "Hey, look, it's one of a dozen old trams still in operation! Well, since I've now ridden that on a good chunk of the tram network, I guess I'd be stupid to not finish it."

Finished riding the T's rapid transit network again… well…

There's something special about riding an edge case that led to GTFS using (trip_id, stop_sequence) as stop_times.txt's primary key instead of (trip_id, stop_id). (Stopping at Carl Berners plass for the second time on a single journey on the same track.)

Most people get off of a red eye and seek out food, a nap, tourism, etc. Us: BUSS FOR TOG

Starting off my 30s in the most fitting way possible: a station opening on — of all things — the hometown system on which I've continued to serve as an advisory board member since my teens. Welcome, PATCO's Franklin Square!

After this, only two more to go! @mbta-cr.bsky.social

As a member of the #DRPACAC since my teenage years, who's traveled even to international transit openings, this is apparently RidePATCO's way of forcing me to have a 30th birthday party. See you there?

First there were sneckdowns, but the latest innovation from big snow and ice is now snow protected bike lanes!

I feel like I should get bonus foamer points for not only wrapping up the US Commuter Rail network by taking NICTD to South Bend Airport… but then actually FLYING from there. (Snow at CLT was not on the bingo card, either.) Also updated jeffkess.com/tracks #EveryMile

And with that, the entirety of the nation's Commuter Rail system is now 💯complete ✅

The Way to Really Fly #EveryMile

You know you are a complete and total nerd when you have your radio on and go, "huh, I've never heard a railroad defect detector use Nuance's Samantha voice before." (UP Geneva Sub MP29.40)

Having just flown from the Sunport to the Sky Harbor, I'm now curious how many other euphemisms there are in official airport nomenclature? (e.g. Jetport at PWM)

Meep meep. #EveryMile

"Please again no pictures of the outside of the train due to religious reasons and to respect the tribes we're going through. Thank you." Definitely was not on my bingo card.

This is the train to: RONKONKOMA. The next station is: RONKONKOMA.

"You mean you went from Boston to Orient Point just to ride a particular vessel?" Yes. Not every day you get to ride a D-Day ship!

9am is never too early for people to start an @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social chant on the El. #FlyEaglesFly

I've seen plenty of stores with a "push this button to page someone to unlock the shelves" case, but never this.

Merry Christmas (and soon to be Happy Hanukkah)!🥠 www.c-span.org/clip/no-cate...

That doesn't seem like a NORTA-endorsed sign.

I get the MUCTD desire to have sequentially-lettered exits within a mile, but whoever thought it was a good idea to have a sans-serif "Exit 1I" needs their head (and possibly eyes) examined.

Massport playing _Hava Nagila_ and _Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah!_ at Logan made up for the random closure of the dedicated Terminal A Pre-Check line.

My team is doing such critical analysis. 💯 (And yes, I'm teaching a Python class at work; this was an example we went through based on a colleague's prompt.)

I think my parents got the best Black Friday deal: free SEPTA in PA and 70¢ PATCO rides.

Nothing says it's officially the holidays like a visit to Wanamakers.

First time in over a month! #Niantic #NEC

If only it were that easy.

With so much of former "transit Twitter" moving over here, it seems fitting that my first post would be right when I completed the entirety of Commuter Rail in the Pacific Time Zone.