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Light rail is like a small train, and Trams are like a bus on rails, just a single vehicle. A lot of times too light rail will weave in and out of roadways/dedicated rail space while a tram runs completely on the roads.
Light rail is like a small train, and Trams are like a bus on rails, just a single vehicle. A lot of times too light rail will weave in and out of roadways/dedicated rail space while a tram runs completely on the roads.
From what I can gather every tram might be a (part of a) light rail system, but a light rail is generally faster and might have right of way. The point where a tram turns into a light rail doesn't seem well defined. Also it looks like it's just a newer term and colloquially at least both can describe the same?
I've been building light rail transit systems for the last decade or so
Feel free to ask me anything about this specific type of choo choo
Light rails kinda like trams right?
I don't know and I'm still extremely mad that the electric rail hub of a city I live in sold out to cars
A tram in downtown and our new bus lines? Yee sound dope!!
Not totally sure what the difference would be between a light rail and a tram, but tram implies to me it covers a smaller area and maybe only one or two routes
The one we're building now connects a bunch of different existing rail lines
Stipple all the trains like golf balls or you're just leaving efficiency on the engineering room floor.
I stopped in New York for a couple of days before I went to PAX East this year because I hadn't been in a while. Since I stayed in Manhattan, I decided to take Acela to Boston instead of flying.
Yeah, I know that the Northeast Regional is basically almost as fast as Acela and significantly cheaper, but I still wanted to try it. It was pretty nice! It's the more or less the closest thing I've experienced in the US to trains basically anywhere else, and I didn't have to go to LaGuardia, which is always a win. Being able to get up and walk around is nice, and the sandwich I got from the galley car was good and not at all expensive.
Train from Boston to NY (or the reverse) was always my preferred method. Once you account for transit and security it takes almost the same amount of time, and is monumentally more civilized.
I'll admit it in the safe space of the train thread. I would love to live on a train. Like a little apartment at the end and just travel around solving problems at various stations meeting train lesbians and such
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Portland Maine to Boston was a fun little excursion on my engagement trip, ah, 11 years ago
I assume the trains are even better now yes?
I mean, you can still buy beer and sleep so it's better than doing the drive yourself.
I think when I retire and hopefully have more space in my home than my apartment now I will get into model railroads, either traditional or Lego. They set up a neat one at the mall each year for Christmas and it's really cool but far larger than any space I have currently.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
Portland Maine to Boston was a fun little excursion on my engagement trip, ah, 11 years ago
I assume the trains are even better now yes?
I mean, you can still buy beer and sleep so it's better than doing the drive yourself.
I think when I retire and hopefully have more space in my home than my apartment now I will get into model railroads, either traditional or Lego. They set up a neat one at the mall each year for Christmas and it's really cool but far larger than any space I have currently.
Ive always wanted to build an N-scale layout. Especially now a days being able to 3d print scenery.
I have only ridden the high speed rail in Japan.
As from the various times I rode it the question of why can we not have this in the US?
We majorly prioritized personal vehicles over shared transit because, wait for it, racism
Suburbs and your own personal vehicle mean you don’t have to risk being around other types of people except maybe at work, unless you’re a small biz owner/job creator and then you get to stay segregated at work too. Also it’s a high cost barrier to keep undesirables trapped in the city and no way are we going to build mass transit to let them out into our safe enclaves now.
Plus the auto industry has had major political power which contributed greatly to building highways and degrading labor power, which virtuously entrenches capital/auto industry/racist power and resistance to changing any of our development or transport policies
Like only a few folks today are consciously choosing That Car Life for the racism, but it’s so fundamental to the shape of our society as a result of these deliberate policies from the early/mid 20th century that tons of us couldn’t give up cars even if we wanted to
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I still don't have a car
I will probably need to break down and get one at some point, especially if I want to find better work, but I don't especially like cars!
I walk around a mile and a half to work, and the number of people I talk to that seem to think that is absolutely ludicrously insane is kind of weird!
They're talking about building a train line from Atlanta to Savannah and that would be the raddest fucking thing ever.
High speed rail.along even just the various coasts would make a lot of people's lives easier
Down the east coast Maine to Jacksonville, cur across the panhandle and through the rest of the gulf, cut across Texas in a way that balances hitting metros and shortness of path taken then Phoenix to LA and up to Seattle. Use it as a spine to fill in a huge amount of the US population centers with more local rail.
Bridge the MidWest in portions but start with LA to Vegas in the west and Chicago to NYC in the East.
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I generally take the train if I have to be in Boston during a workday because fuck that traffic.
Once the kids are a bit older, if love to take trains across Europe and Japan as a tourist. I still have fond memories of the sleeper car going down to Florida as my Mom was deathly afraid of flying.
I think statistically you're actually more likely to die in a train-related accident than an airplane-related one but that probably includes people getting hit on the tracks
they're both pretty vanishingly rare
They're talking about building a train line from Atlanta to Savannah and that would be the raddest fucking thing ever.
High speed rail.along even just the various coasts would make a lot of people's lives easier
Down the east coast Maine to Jacksonville, cur across the panhandle and through the rest of the gulf, cut across Texas in a way that balances hitting metros and shortness of path taken then Phoenix to LA and up to Seattle. Use it as a spine to fill in a huge amount of the US population centers with more local rail.
Bridge the MidWest in portions but start with LA to Vegas in the west and Chicago to NYC in the East.
Good luck getting Texas on board for a federally owned rail system unless a Democratic governor is in power
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They're talking about building a train line from Atlanta to Savannah and that would be the raddest fucking thing ever.
High speed rail.along even just the various coasts would make a lot of people's lives easier
Down the east coast Maine to Jacksonville, cur across the panhandle and through the rest of the gulf, cut across Texas in a way that balances hitting metros and shortness of path taken then Phoenix to LA and up to Seattle. Use it as a spine to fill in a huge amount of the US population centers with more local rail.
Bridge the MidWest in portions but start with LA to Vegas in the west and Chicago to NYC in the East.
Good luck getting Texas on board for a federally owned rail system unless a Democratic governor is in power
A dem governor of Texas is likely to be highly susceptible to Musk’s hyperloop bullshit though given 1. Who can win in Texas and 2. SpaceX and Tesla being in Texas and 3. The Texas legislature will be open carryingly hostile
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oh I saw a train hit a deer once, that was certainly a thing I get flashbacks to sometimes.
My nephew is obsessed with trains. Huge into Thomas the Tank Engine, has a billion of the little train toys that his grandma keeps buying him, and knows who every single engine is by heart.
He's getting old enough where my sister has promised him that next time she comes up to NYC to visit me that he can come. He is apparently so excited about riding the subway that he started packing his suitcase after being told about the trip despite that my sister isn't planning on coming up here until about a year from now.
The DC metro has some deep problems, from the modern day stifling idea of it operating on a profit to its historic effects such as the Green Line I’m on existing to bulldoze black communities in its way. Yet I still like riding it. The brutalist concrete station designs to the raised section peeks at the outer fringes of the city. Not having to actively drive during a 40 minute commute means 80 minutes of fucking around.
Always had a fantasy of exploring the local neighborhoods of the various line ends, mostly the Virginia ones I don't normally go down.
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Ah, gotcha
Our system here is overhead catenary outside and overhead contact rail underground for the light rail trains
The same owner also has heavy rail trains that are exclusively underground, and those use a third rail for traction power
Oh yeah, the road thing too
As from the various times I rode it the question of why can we not have this in the US?
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politicians hate spending money on infrastructure here
Unless it's some kind of wundertransport they can pretend costs a lot less
Stipple all the trains like golf balls or you're just leaving efficiency on the engineering room floor.
Yeah, I know that the Northeast Regional is basically almost as fast as Acela and significantly cheaper, but I still wanted to try it. It was pretty nice! It's the more or less the closest thing I've experienced in the US to trains basically anywhere else, and I didn't have to go to LaGuardia, which is always a win. Being able to get up and walk around is nice, and the sandwich I got from the galley car was good and not at all expensive.
The US never learned how to build infrastructure without slave labor or murdering boatloads of immigrants is all
I've always wanted to be a conductor, too.
I mean, you can still buy beer and sleep so it's better than doing the drive yourself.
I think when I retire and hopefully have more space in my home than my apartment now I will get into model railroads, either traditional or Lego. They set up a neat one at the mall each year for Christmas and it's really cool but far larger than any space I have currently.
Ive always wanted to build an N-scale layout. Especially now a days being able to 3d print scenery.
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High speed rail.along even just the various coasts would make a lot of people's lives easier
We majorly prioritized personal vehicles over shared transit because, wait for it, racism
Suburbs and your own personal vehicle mean you don’t have to risk being around other types of people except maybe at work, unless you’re a small biz owner/job creator and then you get to stay segregated at work too. Also it’s a high cost barrier to keep undesirables trapped in the city and no way are we going to build mass transit to let them out into our safe enclaves now.
Plus the auto industry has had major political power which contributed greatly to building highways and degrading labor power, which virtuously entrenches capital/auto industry/racist power and resistance to changing any of our development or transport policies
Like only a few folks today are consciously choosing That Car Life for the racism, but it’s so fundamental to the shape of our society as a result of these deliberate policies from the early/mid 20th century that tons of us couldn’t give up cars even if we wanted to
I will probably need to break down and get one at some point, especially if I want to find better work, but I don't especially like cars!
I walk around a mile and a half to work, and the number of people I talk to that seem to think that is absolutely ludicrously insane is kind of weird!
Down the east coast Maine to Jacksonville, cur across the panhandle and through the rest of the gulf, cut across Texas in a way that balances hitting metros and shortness of path taken then Phoenix to LA and up to Seattle. Use it as a spine to fill in a huge amount of the US population centers with more local rail.
Bridge the MidWest in portions but start with LA to Vegas in the west and Chicago to NYC in the East.
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Once the kids are a bit older, if love to take trains across Europe and Japan as a tourist. I still have fond memories of the sleeper car going down to Florida as my Mom was deathly afraid of flying.
What is it in this sense?
ED: Also, taking the train the NYC later this year. Beats all hell out of flying there.
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UK slang for a trainspotter
they're both pretty vanishingly rare
Good luck getting Texas on board for a federally owned rail system unless a Democratic governor is in power
A dem governor of Texas is likely to be highly susceptible to Musk’s hyperloop bullshit though given 1. Who can win in Texas and 2. SpaceX and Tesla being in Texas and 3. The Texas legislature will be open carryingly hostile
He's getting old enough where my sister has promised him that next time she comes up to NYC to visit me that he can come. He is apparently so excited about riding the subway that he started packing his suitcase after being told about the trip despite that my sister isn't planning on coming up here until about a year from now.
Good lord
THERE ARE SOME GREAT FUCKIN' TRAINS HERE IN BANGOR
Always had a fantasy of exploring the local neighborhoods of the various line ends, mostly the Virginia ones I don't normally go down.
Better than driving, but