Love how the @en.ottawa.ca mayor posts on his FB about helping to donate 100k to a organization to end child homelessness in Ottawa, meanwhile he is the actual mayor and holds the power to end homelessness in Ottawa, but instead decides to destroy homeless camps and not fund safe injection sites.

The anxiety grows

Love fictional spaceships.... Rocinante, Hermes, Endurance, Hail Mary, Sojourner.... need more

C11!

Would yall peg me as a Kei Truck gal? Because im legitimately thinking of buying one once I pay off my current car

well that was quick 👀 @rapidotrains.bsky.social

goob. it's green for an amazing reason

@discord.com discord is down btw thought you'd like to know

Transport Action Atlantic's president Tim Hayman was the guest on CBC Maritime Noon yesterday, discussing expended passenger rail service. Listen online: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

VIA Casselman Casselman, Ontario Station code: CSLM Trains QBEC -> OTTW: 22, 28, 38 Trains OTTW -> QBEC: 31, 33, 35, 633

I think we as a collective society should launch anyone that makes shitty seats into the sun

VIA 44, with P42DC 920 leading and F40PH-2D 6405 Trailing, slowing down to arrive at platform 1 at Ottawa, May 1st 2026

My perfect creatire

there's a kitty in my analytics :3

youtu.be/SY5cfeRFcTc New video out!

Just a reminder for all the railfans out there, especially when doing it at stations. Please stand well clear of the tracks, atleast 4-5 meters from the yellow line, the yellow line is there only for stopping trains, not high speed Trains, ive seen too many people be on or near the tracks lately.

Photogenic

Note that the reason this got passed is because it doesn't explicitly say it reduces the bus lanes from 3 to 2 hours. Clause 3 includes the word "existing", which modifies the staff recommendation. This moved fast because @shawnmenard.bsky.social hid the modifier in unclear language.

Beautiful morning

LRC-1s in VIA Service, Chicago

March 31st is recognized internationally as Transgender Day of Visibility. Along with Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20th, it is one of two holidays that the trans community observes for the purpose of raising awareness and support in both our struggles and our joys.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!! i fuckin see u

@unifor.org have a point, and it is crucial that the new long distance fleet is both able to operate reliably in harsh winter conditions and to keep passengers and crew comfortable for up to 48 hours even in the event of a locomotive failure. www.unifor.org/news/all-new...

CN 589 taking the siding in Casselman, waiting for VIA 26 to thunder by.

"PLEASE STOP CALLING US MICROSLOP!!!1! MY SHAREHOLDERS ARE GOING TO PUT ME IN THE BRONZE BULL1!!!!!1!one!!"

Find it funny that whenever we suggest groundbreaking improvements to our rail network, a bunch of people in the middle of nowhere cry about it

Dysphoria sucks :<

VIA 643, Napanee

Omg I need jt

Could HSR be built down the median of 401? No. Could HSR be built alongside CN? Not reasonably. Those ideas are not novel. They've been considered and ruled out by professional engineers over the past decade and more. Do we need to keep costs down? Absolutely. www.thewhig.com/news/changes...

The government waited too long to allow VIA Rail to order new long distance equipment. Now we must speed up delivery while ensuring its design is both a suitable successor to the heritage fleet and dome cars, plus resilient in Canadian conditions, including blizzards on the Churchill route.

VIA 53, at Fallowfield, with @keiraclarke.ca on-board!

State of computer technicians in 2026. How'd bro even pass his courses he doesn't know what he's doing 😭

#CN L27691, with CN 2237 leading and EXO 1407, 1408 and 1409 trailing, these are the last EC-42s to be delivered to #EXO and likely the end of charger deliveries on the Kingston Subdivision.

Im going to kiss my girlfriend

This has been repeatedly raised in TSB investigation reports since 1995 and must be addressed. The first engineering controls to require crews to acknowledge signal indications and to prevent trains from exceeding their movement authority were implemented in in 19th century.

Today we mark the 40th anniversary of the Hinton disaster. In the intervening years, measures to address crew fatigue have been implemented, but Canada still lacks fail-safe physical controls to prevent a train passing a stop signal. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Old vs New

I was very pleased to host @railfans.ca and @bettertransitottawa.ca online for a webinar on transit tracking data. Watch that here.

This is today!

VIA 35 earlier today

Thank you to the volunteer firefighters and mayor of Saint-Zotique for helping out quickly, but we should not be having so many problems! Siemens Mobility needs to be more open with the public about their efforts to address to root causes of these issues. www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/01/24/t...

Rem!

I wish Ottawa gave half as much of a crap about transit as they do about landowners doing what they want with their legally acquired property.

We need emergency bus lane and transit priority measures enacted on key corridors to ensure our working buses are used as efficiently as possible. We can't have our limited bus fleet standing still in traffic.

Jan 17, 1989: the last VIA Rail overnight sleeping cars between Ottawa and Toronto begin their journeys, marking the end of 116 years of through sleeper service between the two cities since 1873—with a brief hiatus in 1965-66 following the end of the pool train agreement. 1/3

Made a very special video for 2026! Enjoy! youtu.be/MT7vApWZSgk

This happening right after Doug said we don't need chinese cars is super funny.

VIA Rail F40PH-2D running light power from Ottawa to Montreal due to one of the wheels being flat