trains

The NG diesel loco that hauled the Satpura Railway in central India (Gauge converted now), it now rests in a museum

Hi, I hope this is okay, I made some progress on a line art photobash to go with the scene I was describing and I was hoping to run it by you folks in case anything needs to change (scale, layout, etc) before I get into the detail work....

Hi, I’m working on a fiction project set in a rebuilding society 100 years out. It’s fairly utopian so people are prioritizing restoring and improving train infrastructure and service pretty significantly. American cities have high speed rail connecting them, and because I’m building this story out of my daydreams, defunct...

dark tunnel train station...

Hooray rail monopolies!

Pt 1 if you didn’t see it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nym3sQhkhww

I got the bottom bunk on the sleepy choochoo.

The reason we stay in school, pursue advanced degrees, merge and acquire competitors is to increase market power. The former two are celebrated by society, the latter two often derided negatively as anticompetitive and made subject to regulatory and judicial punishment.

The big buzz and bigger controversy around Texas during the past several years has been a proposal by a company called Texas Central to build and operate a high-speed rail line between Downtown Dallas and a point in the Houston area, about eight miles from downtown Houston where two highways intersect, a great spot for a parking...