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I hear it’s fine, if you got the time, and the ten to get your self in.

The increase in crime is a direct result of the increase in stressors, mentally, physically, and financially, brought on primarily by the pandemic, but also the world political situation, and our countries political situation. With that last statement I’m referring more to the divisiveness that...

That seems to be a suggestion that chances of a Superliner on the Waterlevel are high.

$4000 over the life cost of your vehicle? My vehicle is hopefully not approaching the end of its life, but I have spent over $4000 just servicing vehicle emissions components that presumably wouldn’t be needed in an electric car. Don’t get me wrong, I can’t stand Elon Musk. i think the...

S1 vs SII is trucks. Transition sleepers have an odd window treatment at the front of the upper level. These are all SII cars. the rest can easily be discerned by the lower level window treatment Sleepers have three windows to one side and one to the other on the lower level Diners have no...

I’m a huge fan of music; in fact, ‘audiophile‘ might apply; my car license plate references my love of Doo ***, in fact. While I don’t enjoy being a rude boogermonkey, that isn’t the reason I use a pair of KZ ZAS in-ear-monitors when listening to just about anything outside my car or home- it...

Personally, I think San Francisco is an example of an exception to the rule; in fact I think it exists as an example of localized inflation, like Williston, ND.

I can appreciate your idealism, but I fear my, what most call, cynicism is closer to realism.

Real estate development; I couldn’t imagine you were asking why I wasn’t a fan of BRT when I outlined that in great detail a few posts up. It’s not that there isn’t ‘room’ to put affordable housing in TOD projects; it’s that there is no business case for doing so. What earthly reason would a...

it prices people out of cities. We are a country who talks about wanting to combat discrimination, then takes great joy in discriminating on social and economic status.

Well, reading what I wrote 8 years ago was certainly interesting, as was this ancient topic being dragged up. All I can say about the intervening years is whoo-boy. I am not saying that politically, but categorically. I dropped out of advocacy after a sincere effort with someone else to take...

The platforms are theonly thing attractive about the station. And who doesn’t prefer Roy Rogers? Their food has things McDonald’s lacks, such as flavor and edibility.

I am serious. It’s an eyesore, badly executed. The previous station was more attractive and I think it was an Amshack style. But at least it had a Roy Rogers.

In order make a functional upgrade of TTC they’d have to demolish it first!

I am not a fan of BRT; I am also not a fan of spurring real estate development, however.

My opinion, based on observation, however unpopular with railfans, is that street-running rail vehicles that mix with traffic are functionally inferior to electric busses with at least backup battery capability. If a bus can go off wire even short distances, it can bypass a closed route; if it...

I carry two power banks, a 40k mAh, and a 10k mAh, as well as a 4K mAh battery case on the iPhone 6 I use as a portable stereo and a 10k mAh battery case on my cell phone (iPhone 8 Plus) and I’ve never had problems with them. I bought them from reputable brands and I have no fears about them...

I eat using a set of 1940s Oneida silver plate and a 1930s set of Homer-Laughlin China. Both are extremely easy to clean in the sink. The silver requires a polish about once a month- takes about ten minutes. Lends a sense of occasion to just plain eating. Also it’s a lot cheaper than new...

They do need replacing, sure. But I have often felt that the problem with launching trains is proof they will work. If I can cobble together a reliable service with third tier cars, I can provide a proof of concept to justify the capital expenditure for new cars. If I don’t have the cars to...

It’s a lot easier to launch new night train services in Europe as there is a lot of still serviceable sleeper cars available on the sidelines, both from discontinued sleeper services in mainland Europe, and retired (but not completely used up) Eastern European (I.e. Comecon) sleeper cars that...