They're the definition of cattle class. They're slow, expensive, and you're sleeping in a tiny room with total strangers. Any sleeper route can be better served by a low-cost airline, and cheaper to boot. Sleeper trains made sense in the 19th century when they were the only option, but they make absolutely no sense today.
>>2067353on the floor, regardless
>>2061472They used to make Rolls Royces where you could take a dump through the floor of the car, or as the English call it, the footsy-planky of the estate coach.As with all things, India can thank England for its noblest customs
I traveled by night train last week. About 10 hour journey (daytime trains make around 8 hours), flight would be about an hour and a half.Had a private compartment with my wife, without shower (there was a public shower at the end of the car). Cost pretty much exactly the same as flying (maybe a little less because air fare always ends up having some extra costs) You can book shared couchette compartments which are cheaper, nice option if you're young and want to travel on a budget in reasonable comfort. I used to do this in the past, but now I prefer a private compartment. Main advantage is we had the entire day we arrived. If you fly you either leave in the afternoon, arrive at night and pay another hotel night, or leave early, arrive at noon and lose the first half of the day. So with three hotel nights we had four full days.Train was reasonably comfy, compartments aren't too spacious ofc but the beds are fine (positioned as bunk beds one above the other). We got a smol breakfast in the morning.Doesn't feel cattle-like at all. I'd even say that flying feels much more cattle-y than the train: having to stand in line all the time (at check-in, security and boarding), then sitting in an uncomfortable cramped plane next to plebs and third worldere. The train felt like a tiny hotel on wheels. Definitely more dignified than flying. Also more practical if you can spare the overnight time, since the trip was the ideal length for the train to leave late (after dinner) and arrived early.Pic related the morning view from my bed.
>>2049551Most countries still have intact infrastructure rail networks
>>2059941just american. i have never seen this anywhere ever. even in india you poop out the window/balcony-thing
My hours just got reduced from 50 to 24 a week, and I need quick money.I live in a big city and I want to start doing DoorDash/Uber Eats on my bike downtown and I am wondering if I should use my brothers e-bike (fat tires, 80 lbs, really big) or my city bike (26 lbs)? I know an e-bike might sound like the more logical option, but I am worried about running out of battery only 3-4 hours in, and then having to lug that tank of a bike around. My city bike is a feather compared to that. Please help me decide. I want to basically bike around the city from 9am-9pm without going home to charge for 8 hours. pic rel is just a cute pic I found from Pinterest, but it looks like my bike..
>>2069189>horizontal top tube >dropped seat staysthat's a man bike!
>>2069474THIS NIGGA DIGS ON MAN MEAT
>>2069472>any cityYou're forgetting that /n/ urbanists mostly live in bumpkin towns in oklahoma hence why they are so angry about public transportation all the time
>>2069490this is very true, I forget not everyone lives in Boston, and that the city to them is a stretch of strip malls kek
>>2069475You will never be a real stepthrough fembike
What the fuck is wrong with these mongoloid slackers? They completely underschedule longhaul trains everywhere outside the NEC so almost no one can use them for shorter trips and then wonder why ridership is in the shitter. Each route should be minimum 3x a day per direction.
>>2062712That's the problem with just about all rail based mass transit, it goes in and out of a big hub but there's no "periferico line" so to speak
>>1992023Why is a round trip from NYC to Delaware 200$? Who knows, god is dead, Amtrak is all that remains. Death to this nigger company genuonely
>>2064866is that too high for you, or too low?
>>2064866there is no need for racism
>>2066369Pls respond
I saw there's threads of any kind but not for the most important part of the bike, the seat.So this it will be a /bsg/ Bike seat generalTell me your most comfortable seat, because I got a shitty standard one that break my ass
>>2069134good luck with your prostate
>>2065694I picked up a saddle like this at the thrift store for $3My God it's the worst fucking thing ever, after just a short ride my lower back was killing me and I constantly felt like I was going to fall off.
>>2065659mine was stolen, I replaced it with a smaller, crapper one from my previous, much older smaller bike, eventually just lost the spirit for it at all and left it to rot. then took it to be serviced years later and they tried to charge me double so I followed bad advice and just left it with them for scrap.never had a bike since.my whole life is like that
>>2065667Akshually you use your legs and core to support your weight on the bike and the saddle is only there to look cool
>>2066088Based ans man made horrors beyond my comprehension pilled
a daring synthesis
>These MARC II coaches will spend the next year in service under ... SEPTA. They’re filling in for Silverliner IV trains from the 1970s, which have recently developed the undesirable habit of bursting into flames.kekhttps://ggwash.org/view/102480/marc-should-join-septa-to-buy-new-silverliner-vi-trains
>lifelong md resident>know trains are the only legit form of overland travelI dont know how to feel about this....
These things happen. Sometimes two trains just like each other and fuck. It can't be helped.
there nothing ever happens, if two trains collide. They are crashed and exploded like a boom.
I like mixed trainsPost mixed trains
trains shouldn't mix
>>2067904Racist!
Not technically a mixed, but the use of a passenger car at the rear of a weed spraying train will suffice, I'm sure of it.
>>2069442...and the other side from the same day.
and the only other I could find, again, on the SP albeit narrow gauge.
>be me>bus trip to providence>connecting bus from nyc>1 hr layover>not too bad>get to bus stop at home location at 8 pm>"bus delayed 4.5 hours">fuuuuuckkk >ok whatever.>get on bus at midnight>get to nyc at 2 am>call bus customer support to get new connecting bus>"the next bus to providence leaves at 8">"oh 8 am?">"8 pm"Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2069388i dont use this board i have no idea what a cagie is
>>2069389"cagie" is just someone with a car, don't worry about it
I have never had a long distance bus trip that wasn't a complete shit show, in some cases literally. just take the train next time, it's not worth saving $10.
>>2069387I thought that stuff was all free in nyc.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RBYsQE4Pxb4
Do you sit in the cuckstoel?
>>2068273Wouldn't work, jeets are racist to toilets.
>>2068313What is it with streetshitters and feces?
poopensharten
>>2068002It's a coveted item so free only 1/10 trains on busier lines. In particular train-filling is a weighing of expected free volume (which requires experience unless done greedily) so most bet on it.
>>2069423In spite of this one was snagged
Has the vintage market finally shit the bed? I remember these selling for $400 back 10 years ago
>>2064999third world shithole or post soviet second world shithole?
>>2065022it's obviously a replacement cassette which is black OEM.
>>2067366These Cannondale haters have no idea what they're talking about. Loved my r800.Which CAAD?
>>2067404canada so both
>>2065030are those escort names in your tabs?
Is this feasible? I currently operate a tram/streetcar here in an American city. I speak Spanish, but am pretty rusty. I'm starting to get sick of life in America. I've lived in Spain for a semester in college. I don't miss it like crazy, but I'm just bored with the American way of life, the quality of the housing, the women, the declining power of the dollar. Would it be possible for me to move to another country and get a job operating rail transport? In the USA, to drive a tram/trolley/streetcar you don't need any kind of special license, you just go through a training period with the company. It's not like being a bus driver where you need a CDL B license. Is this possible for rail? Could I move to Spain or Mexico or Brazil or Argentina and drive streetcars? Do they drug test? Are there countries where they don't drug test for rail?
>>2069396pic unrelated, it's an AI image I generated to represent my disdain of springing the clocks forward for daylight savings time
fuck off we're full
Design a transportation network for Middle-Earth
>>20690702 wordsEagles
>>2069070get a hex cast on you that makes you ressurect in a location of your choosing, then kys yourself
>tfw no Isengard-Mordor railway operated as the Palantir express
We had to destroy the plane in order to save it edition.Crashes year to date:https://aviation-safety.net/database/year/2026/1Last thread:https://boards.4chan.org/n/thread/2062242/
>>2068720Who pays for all this shit? Like is there a crash surcharge sent to airlines when an airport has to hang on to the wreckage?
>>2068721presumably the NTSB pays the bills as part of their investigation, but I think JetBlue would charge a crash fee
>>2068553>Mackenzie Guntherthe first chick I cummed in
>people who blame that DC helicopter/plane crash on the route/ATC/whateverAnd not the clown military aviation who LIE repeatedly about having the plane in sight
When Chresten Wilson was 12 years old, she and her mom drove past United Airlines' Flight Training Center in Denver. She looked at the building and told her mom: "I'll be there someday."This year, she became the No. 1 most senior pilot across the entire airline, the highest position on United's pilot seniority list. She is the first woman in the airline's history to hold that honor. Wilson currently flies as a Boeing 787 Dreamliner captain, one of the most prestigious positions in the fleet.At an airline with over 13,000 pilots, reaching the top of the seniority list takes decades of dedication, skill, and persistence. In the airline world, seniority is everything. It determines what aircraft you fly, what routes you get, what schedule you hold, and when you take vacation. Reaching No. 1 means you have been with the airline longer than every other active pilot on the roster.United shared the moment on social media for International Women's Day, showing Captain Wilson at the gate in her uniform, clearly emotional. The post has been liked by Boeing and has received more than 42,000 likes.From a 12-year-old girl with a dream to the most senior pilot at one of the world's largest airlines. That is what determination looks like.
>>2067349>BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP
>>2067349>reaching the top of the seniority list takes decades of dedication, skill, and persistenceNo, it takes>you have been with the airline longer than every other active pilot on the rosterJust don't quit and don't get fired for longer than anyone else (being Continental before the merger helped). It's not like she aced the civilian Top Gun, she was just a glorified bus driver for a really long time and will get retired out in a manner of months
>>2069088>a manner of monthslol
>>2067349If it's boeing....
>>2069089If the guys above her in seniority retired, it means she's about to hit the age where they put her out to pasture
In the 2000s, IC cards were all the rage and adopted in many places across the world for fare payment. Is this technology effectively dead now that Apple Pay has this function built in, and all chipped credits card also have this tap to pay ability?
Also, Osaifu-Keitai is fundamentally based on Sony's FeliCa, which all phones emulate in Apple Pay/Google Pay/Samsung Pay unless your phone is junk. Apple has had it since iPhone 7 in Japan , and worldwide it's been there since iPhone 8. Lagdroid manufacturers often refuse to pay the license for it, hence it's disabled on their models (poor people).>>2068015open sores is a disease
>>2068004I still use the cards if they're available. If you don't register them they're semi-anonymous, which I appreciate. Plus they're fun souvenirs.
>>2068032>iphone/apple brand loyalty>0 idea about tech and financesname a more iconic duo
>>2068009>>2068012Felica is honestly far superior than all of it's competitors, the only reason it didn't become an international standard is because of Japanese licencing autism.
>>2068004They still use these in Montreal and they work just fine, and they still operate off a 20 year old data standard that costs more to break than a ticket would.
Twenty nine years after Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play...
PAN AM FUCKING SHITS
>>2068831have this without the stupid 'jaks and frogs?
49 years ago: we gaan1 year ago: we gaan down saar
