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Josephtheredengine|ACAB
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train nerd
lancashire and yorkshire
dick
thomas fan
he/him
#DownWithPhillip
Topham when the charger eats more snow and chokes again
February 7, 2026 at 2:07 AM
well i know what I'm wearing on every outfit
January 31, 2026 at 1:38 AM
hell, most of the lots outside this train station is just parking lots! how is there not a bigger push to fill in our cities for people!
January 28, 2026 at 2:19 AM
for example, take this random parking lot that i totally don't pass a lot. you could fit a 200' ×500' building in this area but no, it's the place for the thing much more important than humans, the car.
January 28, 2026 at 1:48 AM
it's so weird that @ncdot.bsky.social is building up theses plans for a giant fuck off big highway to get people into Charlotte that will take out people's houses when they could take a few existing lanes and run commuter services instead
January 25, 2026 at 3:06 PM
fair, just seemed odd you skipped over one route they want to happen
January 14, 2026 at 12:11 AM
i would kill for a rtr highflyer
December 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Say, maybe instead of designing the line to pull people in from suburbs and into a city, it transfers through multiple cities, multiple suburbs and runs a regular service throughout the day?
December 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
ah the American disco car
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
On the regular "Joseph thinks up something silly" Amtrak working with Septa, Marc, and whoever else owns this trackage to make a second nec for added capacity and helping doing overhauls on the ex pennsy wires. Although you probably would want to electrify this too.
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
First Train north after the Panther's win today, the next train seems to be sold out. Seems like if we start playing good it might be a good idea to run more Piedmonts?
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Phase 3 is really nice, mainly for this
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
think it would be good if both projects got off the ground together and any stock purchased would be identical between the two systems to save money and have a better interconnected parts supply, maybe something from the Lexington Siemens facility?
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
drew up a sorta basic idea of 3 different lines based around PART bus service, a red line from Clemmons to Greensboro, a green line from Winston-Salem to Lexington, and a blue line on the NCRR between Burlington and Lexington.
Service already exists on the Blue line in the form of the Piedmont and
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Charlotte is finally getting rolling with their commuter rail and i think both the triad and triangle should take note and push for some Regional/Commuter rail
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
cancel polar expresses and bring this look back
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
more dumb idess by Joseph
heritage set on the train painted like this
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Someone else suggested "The Silver Comet" for the Washington to Raleigh train, named after the old seaboard train
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Randomly decided to think up names for the Washington to Charlotte and Washington to Raleigh trains, Southern Metropolitan and Southern Capitals
November 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Still find it funny that Cincinnati owned this and just sold it to Northfolk Southern.
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
guessing eventually a. ncrr gets electrified (is state owned) and b. this project goes through just off of the need for people to get around an area with massive growth and i just get to trainwatch something like this passing the new airo sets.
September 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
he got his normal one back eventually
September 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
this?
September 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
need more Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway coaches
September 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Really annoying this near perfect regional train project got sidelined. The Piedmont/Carolinian is nice but just imagine more regular and expensive service on the ncrr.
September 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM