I swear to fucking god if I see any of you bummed at a single digit loss in a Trump +22 district

oh now here's a fun kitbash, Silver Veranda, already an oddball where: -"Burlington" lettering is scratched out - car name/number in tact but - Amtrak placards replacing the Zephyr ones 6/75, so pretty late for it not to get P1 stripes

Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/

So who's to say if he's really bad or not

My two takeaways from the election: 1. Progressives need to focus on the North side 2. Voters find messaging around RCV either confusing or unconvincing and we need to just have one guy

I used to own a '98 Saturn wagon and that thing was so worthless I did this dozens of times and no one ever touched it

Wondering how much this early* snowfall has to do with that volcano in Ethiopia erupting and releasing a ton of SO2 *yeah this is probably close to the pre-industrial average but no one remembers that anymore

NO THE FUCK WE- oh wait that's not what he means is it

Apparently two Milwaukee road skytop lounges were put onto a carfloat as part of a restaurant concept someone did. It (predictably) went out of business, the boat being scrapped, and the cars chopped in half. The bodies are are at a museum in Minnesota.

Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21

MK I've got some numbers on what it'd take to reactivate the GN main for passenger service: 99.8 miles to rehabbed track 104 miles of reactivated rail-trail (all owned by MNDOT already) 3-5 miles of new build (all owned by Xcel, should make property acquisition easy) 20.4 miles using Staples sub

he met 4 trans women for lunch and banned polyamory what did they tell him

2.) An update from our Council as a whole.

Folks they're calling it the least productive day of the month

*click* Oh right! New video! The one where I soft-locked myself IRL because I said I'd stop filming when the trains stop coming, and then they didn't youtu.be/YksaCRj3lXY?...

Maybe it's a good thing he lost lmao

I feel like if you condemned this many properties for a transit expansion around here there'd be riots

I gave Metro Transit a lot of shit for their route organization/numbering but honestly Amtrak is so, so much worse

Also we as urbanists need to take up the mantle of rural land use as well Sherco solar project, 910MW: est. 5,000 acres Prairie Island, 1041MW: 475 acres Granted the former can also serve limited other purposes but uh, not ideal IMO

Active ICE Raid 609 Rose Ave E, St Paul, MN Several Family Members Inside House Support Requested

Hypothetical St Paul - Fargo route via a rebuilt GN main: @ 100 mph: 3'42" @ 110: 3'22" @ 125: 2'58" Current schedule: 5 hr This is some extreme napkin math based on the current schedule. With no freight interference and less padding a dedicated corridor train could feasibly do 2.5 hours

This is why we need more nuclear power

One of my crank ideas is that Amtrak should look into how much of the national network can easily be upgraded to 90MPH. Almost all of it has PTC and the majority runs on busy, well-maintained freight routes that are already good for 70+. Surely a little extra can't cost that much yeah?

Something just occurred to me about last weekends trip: might be my first trip that didn't involve a P42

I've always felt the water usage argument against data centers is vibes based and reading the Minnpost article tying in thermal power plant usage has further convinced me of this. No one actually knows what it even means to "use water". There's different ways and the distinctions are important!

What's in the box, Charlie Brown?

Back here again. I think one more trip and it'll overtake Chicago as my second most used station

Pissing away the last few minutes of the con, I'm reminded of holiday gatherings and how my parents, and by extension my sister and I, would end up on clean up duty after the festivities when everyone else has gone

Ooh, I bet you're wonderin' how I knew 'Bout your plans to make me blue With some other guy you knew before Between the two of us guys You know I love you more It took me by surprise, I must say When I found out yesterday Don't you know that I heard it through the grapevine

Struck gold! Found a tape from BCRail going over the electrification system for the Tumbler Ridge line, I learned they set up a digital monitoring system for it (IN 1981!!) with a remote microwave link spanning 700km across the province. Link in comments #railfan #foamer #vintage #BCRail

right-wing version of a land acknowledgement:

New video! Honestly this is one of my favorites, I think it's the first one where I've nailed the vibe I've been aiming for this whole time. youtu.be/J8O2lKuIbvU

Quote of the day, unprompted: "Personally, I'm a fan of woke"

Need an organization to throw money at for #gttm ? Why not @streets.mn ? givemn.org/streetsmn

Back at my favorite place in the world

New video! Honestly this is one of my favorites, I think it's the first one where I've nailed the vibe I've been aiming for this whole time. youtu.be/J8O2lKuIbvU

"ok wise guy what do we put at the OTHER corner????" :)

Gee, it's as if suburbanization is an unsustainable model My modest proposal to alleviate this problem is to consolidate St Paul and the rest of Ramsey county into an independent city and have Minneapolis annex the first two rings of suburbs and also the airport

I think by the end of my life the NEC will be defined -at the least- as Boston -Charlotte

About 30 cars of ICE and DEA agents staging st Newell park in St. Paul

My goal for this week - and I'm posting this to hold myself to it - is to finish the Wisconsin Dells station review before I take the train there again on Thursday

The rich love to cosplay work! I say this all the time!

One of the arguments the Class Is and AAR put up any time anyone talks about freight rail electrification is that there's no electric locomotives designed for US/NA freight service. While on the surface this claim is true, it's also not a big deal To prove it, let's talk about this fucking thing

For a brief moment, we can pretend it's still summer

What's up with the blue line? I noticed nb trains holding at Franklin and cedar

No tarriffs, no immigration regulations, no borders. There's only one human race and we should act like it

DAMMIT

2026 Board Application Deadline Extended and Additional Event: https://streets.mn/2025/11/10/2026-board-application-deadline-extended-and-additional-event/ 2026-2027 Board Application deadline extended to November 23rd

This is why I keep a couple propane tanks in the back of my Bolt, mutually assured destruction

Important question: is this the first bikeway roundabout in the US?