Not to be outdone by the LIRR, Metro-North has released its newest member of the fleet into active service today - SC42-DM #301, seen here running in electric mode through Scarborough

this is actually my great frustration of walking around in new york.

BNSF Office Car Special headed out to Garden City for the Ryder Cup. Incredibly rare move to see something like this on the LIRR!

I wrote about the perhaps surprising American railway boom this week: www.economist.com/united-state...

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The NYT takes on the question of whether freight railroads are serious about growing their mode share: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...

Strongly agree with this—both the architecture and the exhibits are worth traveling to Sacramento for.

They say you can't take a train from Zagreb to Serbia. Let's see if I can still do it 🤓

There are some amazing historic trams running around Prague. But so far I’m most captivated by this model likely from the mid-1990s since I’ve never ever seen a vacuum fluorescent route info display before. It’s so dim lol.

You can tell the Stata Center was finished in 2004 because it still looks modern but is extremely lacking in outlets in the classrooms.

Nothing beats public transit!

A world first: trains under power are now running across the I-90 floating bridge ⚡ Last night marked a big milestone for the 2 Line’s Crosslake Connection - hear more from Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine on this historic evening for transit and the entire Central Puget Sound!

The first East Link train under its own power on the floating bridge!

I cannot get over how steep and twisty, yet fast the Allentown line is. Absolutely a delightful piece of infrastructure that should get to see full time service, and worth the trip to Pittsburgh alone for how incredible it was to see today

new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: 20 years ago, Seoul was haggling over whether to install platform screen doors at its Metro stations. many called it a waste and an impossibility. now it’s at all Metro stations across South Korea. how did this transformation happen? www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...

This place is such an “echo chamber” I can’t log on without seeing fulsome defenses of blatant bigotry and discrimination from “reasonable” people. The least it could do is actually live up to its reputation as a place that’s rabidly intolerant of intolerance but it can’t even do that.

New story about trains and corporate mergers, and why you should never ever stop spending money on the railroads. medium.com/p/c6ab8375d4f0

Finally, a project many years in the making is out! Follow the @bart.gov YouTube channel for the entire system with new videos out weekly. youtu.be/75uZBphGvhE?...

ΣΠΑΠ – Peloponnese Netzgrafik 1962 Something I’d never seen before and I didn’t expect to see. ⚪️ Standard trains 🔴 Fast trains 🟢 Local and steam trains 🔵 Car-ferries A really inclusive timetable, aiming for the passenger’s information Source: gwrarchive.org/site/sitel2p...

Riding into the next generation: After a long wait, what a pleasure to be able to ride the inaugural revenue trip of Amtrak’s NextGen Acela this morning (in my case, from Stamford to Philadelphia).

Would like to find one (1) online space other than private friends-only group chats that isn’t utterly toxic, but after 25 or so years online, I should know better than to keep searching for such impossibilities.

It’s an arrive home on overnight subway service, leave home the next morning on overnight subway service kind of day.

Borough Hall to Penn Station in 15 minutes for $3 is the deal of the century

My parents had a friend who was a school bus driver, so she bought a yellow one.

Tonight is the night Bluesky finally became funny.

Named Chairs: A Study in Contrasts

Rust College? What conference do they play in, the Cor-Ten?

"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."

I would prefer that the original livery used on the 1k-6k just be revived, but failing that, one of the brown stripe options must win. (How do we avoid splitting the pro-stripe vote, though, with two stripe options and one no-stripe one?)

I find it really amusing that the name “MSNBC” lasted as long as it did and in the end it’s the “MSN” half that’s sticking around.

Hard to even describe how utterly weary and exhausted I am of the Take ecosystem, maybe verging on mild disgust. (You might ask what I’m even doing here then, which is a fair question.)

Tangential to Stephen's point, but we really need to bring back the art of the high-profile government-sponsored market research report. At the height of Progressive scientific management fever dream-ism, this sort of thing would become a 1,000 page report called "The Grocery Question" or something

Been waiting here for 45mins and not a single fishbowl bus has stopped wtf

PIN THIS TWEET: - Rent control ≠ rent stablization - Neither rent control or rent stabilization have ever been means tested - Literally every apartment built before 1974 is subjected to either rent control or rent stabilization, unless it was deregulated in the 1990s I AM LOSING MY MIND

The real stuff that was so wonderful to see though, were the report covers from the 60s-80s

When I was a kid, people would make fun of the (then fairly recent) '70s—"the decade that taste forgot" and all that—and while some great stuff came out of that decade, sometimes you see things like this and wonder if they did have a bit of a point.

Not a consist you see every day!

I really want to know the first movie and/or TV show to show or feature a MetroCard.

is “NYC, defend yourself” day on here a good time to say I’m working on another NYC guidebook because I cannot shut up about how much I love it here

There’s a strong undercurrent of “progressive” anti-NYC (and sometimes more broadly anti-Northeast) resentment on this site that’s extremely irritating. How dare people who live here, or our local media, talk about our own city? So arrogant of us!

🚌 Brooklyn, start your engines! On September 21, the @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social and @mta.info present the 2025 #BusFestival at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The event is free and runs rain or shine, from 10am – 3:30pm. Learn more at nytransitmuseum.org/busfestival.

Old, and even older!

Was recently talking to a person whose job involves purchasing office furniture and she said designers like the Aeron because it’s “design-y” but that there are now better office chairs. But most of those are not museum-quality…

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

Happy International Cat Day! A friendly reminder that if you're bringing your furry friend on board, they must be in a carrier, bag, or other container 🐈 On @mtametronorth.bsky.social, your pet may also be securely controlled on a leash throughout the journey. #InternationalCatDay

Our long national nightmare is over. (Well, will be in three weeks.)

Thinking about how a few years ago I received almost-final proofs of a textbook for reasons entirely unrelated to my knowledge of NYC political history, but stumbled upon a sentence that mentioned the Board of Estimate in present tense, which resulted in one of the odder emails I've ever sent.

I think it’s charming that ABC News still uses the URL abcnews.go.com even though probably nobody has even thought about Go.com in 20+ years.

BBL will always be Borough Block and Lot, to me

Thinking about NYT obituaries and how there seem to be different levels: 1. You’re important enough to get one, but not a breaking news alert. 2. You get an alert, but aren’t famous enough to be named in the headline, just what you’re known for. 3. You get an an alert and the headline names you.