The Amtrak redemption arc continues?>https://media.amtrak.com/2026/04/amtrak-takes-big-step-towards-new-long-distance-trains/>It’s official! We’ve started the procurement process for Amtrak’s largest-ever Long Distance train order.>Our customers deserve the best, and this new fleet will move us full speed ahead into a new era of American train travel.>We’ve issued a formal request for suppliers to bid on the new Long Distance fleet replacement contract. Interested carbuilders are now preparing their proposals for submission. Following an extensive evaluation, we plan to announce our selected supplier by the end of 2027. >This once-in-a-generation fleet replacement program was developed in close coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration, with the goal of modernizing overnight and cross-country travel for a fleet that includes many cars today approaching nearly 50 years of operations.>The program calls for more than 800 new railcars across 14 routes.
>>2070947All single level cars is gay and lame.
>>2070952bi-level cars are racist against wheelchairs
I just wish I could take interstate sleeper car trips at a price that was competitive with air travel or a long ass drive + hotel. I mean it is like that if you stay in $1000/night hotels but jesus
>>2070948Looks soulless
>>2071117rail isn't as heavily subsidized as air travel and I don't want them to be. then you get shit like the tsa and other authoritarian bs we don't need.
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>Named "Spirit">*dies*Who the fuck is writing this shit?
>>2072232The American goy doesn't deserve low cost airlines. You will pay up and you will like it. Meanwhile Eurochads can still fly anywhere on the continent for €29.99
I hated Spirit but flew a couple of times into LaGuardia, where they use the old Marine Air Terminal, a 1939 Art Deco Time Machine. Not too many gates, a short walk to luggage and ground transportation, and lots of retro futuristic murals and chrome. I hope some other airline jumps on that.
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Post your favorite or most used train station or bus stop.Once a year or so I like to start this thread, it usually ends up pretty interesting.
>>2036071Wow this is beautiful.
>>2071693Explain what is so dumb about it. I think it's well thought out. Better than literal pornography that's on the front page of the board currently.
>>2071819>having train stations outside of town is good actuallyliterally negative IQ take
>>2071823Read my reply again, uncle. It's more nuanced than that.
My home stop until early adulthood.Now I live in the countryside with no trains nearby.
How is this guy alive? First one or two videos I watched, I thought he was just going for (You)s but they just get worse and worse. The only way this makes sense is if he has terminal cancer and he wants to die riding a bike and not in a hospital bed.
>>2072185Don't threaten me with a good time
>>2072186Thank you>>2072187I love it when people say this
>>2072187
he got ratioed by an actual pro that posted on some vid of him descending in switzerland or someshit going into oncoming traffic about how he isn't as cool as he thinks he is lol
>>2072646Can you link the vid? He has sponsors and I imagine the pro has sponsors so if a pro is creating internet drama over his descents it must have been a pretty big deal
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/
>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
>>2069295It can be more than one thing
>>2072588Shitty slopreccing filter on phones these days ruining every picture taken.
>americans are trying to crash an airliner againseriously stop already, you're making the whole industry look bad
Why are trainfags obsessed with HSR when 99% of mechanized passenger travel is local.
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>>2070191see >>2070197 but you may be thinking of their tendency to buy land for well below market rate, or intentionally ruin a neighborhood through other means to get the rest of the properties at below market rate, but do all that shit really incompetently, and get raped in return after raping people out of their homes who still cling to boomer "I KNOW WHAT I GOT" fantasy
>>2072469It's amusing to me that zoomies support the state LITERALLY stealing private property from old people who worked their whole lives for that house, while also complaining about immigrants "stealing" their jobs by being willing to actually work and not just sit around playing Amoogus and vaping, fuck principles right? Everything is about you.
>>2072500hands
>>2072500>offer below market rate for your house in your neighborhood>no one not retarded sells>retarded neighbor sells>they build a 200ft high pylon and remove the highway noise cancelling wall>everyone gets fed up and wants to move after the niggers and get in>they try to own the gubberment by selling for pennies on the dollar to Blackrock instead of The State of California>The State of California just buys the entire neighborhood from Blackrock at a bulk rate for dimes on the dollarwe sure showed them
Why did hydrofoils never take off?
>e-scooters of the sea
>>2044167America fielded them in the Navy. As far as I'm aware the Russians did not. Ultimately the cost to operate it did not justify it's advantages. If the soviets had started fielding them we probably would have kept ours.
>>2072101>America fielded them in the NavyPegasus-class was cool and never should have been scrapped.
>>2072101Cost to operate is usually cope. Slight design modifications can deal with most of those easily.
>>2044074Square cubed law prohibits scaling to multi kilotonne sizes. Bad weather (any sea) would require a tens of kilotonne scale, and likely need an unfathomably strong hull to resist constant wave action hitting the hull at speed.Worse, cavitation of the hydrofoil onsets around 50knots, destroying L/D; not much faster than a highspeed displacement hull.It’s disappointing.
30 years after Mavic Zap, I finally tried three different bikes with electronic shifting (Rival, Force, and Red/XPLR) and it reminded me of the first time I got my dick sucked. It was alright. I'm glad I experienced it. But the overall feeling was like.... "that's all? that's what all the hype was about?"I am glad it's a thing, I'm glad it's available, I would never tell them to un-invent it. I suppose if you offered to upgrade my current bikes with all electronic I'd probably go for it (might have to think it through first). Overall, it was a disappointment.So what did I miss here? Is Shimano better or Campy maybe, was the problem fookin SRAM? Is it less about the ride and more the long term ownership experience, the maintenance perhaps? Why do people fork out 2-3x the monies over the cost of perfectly good mech shifting? I can't believe I'm even saying "perfectly good (old thing)". I love my hydro dicks, I love my crabon wheels, I would never go back and those were worth every penny, but the e-shifting was a big letdown. Again, it was fine, but just fine. For all the hype I expected to ejaculate instantly.
let's be real, 90% of riders actually shift maybe once a month
>>2066779Weird thing to admit but ok
>>2068148just stand on your pedals bro. this isn't a race, it's start-stop traffic
>>2059102In 500 years there will be a taboo against thinking computers and having an unregistered Di2 part will be the technology equivalent of a smallpox vial
>>2054389Oops everyone forgot to give this guy a (You)
Drydock EditionPrevious: >>2033337
>>2071867>“New data compiled since the initial waiver was issued revealed that significantly more supply was able to reach U.S. ports faster,” White House assistant press secretary Taylor Rogers said in a post on social platform X. Yep it's Joewari da
>>2069296Royal fleet auxiliary is hiring cadet eng officers right now.As long as you're not braindead retarded or mute, you'll be a shoo-in.
How do you guys handle sea sickness? Is it true it goes away after some time, and if so can you get fully rid of it or does it comes back at the start of the next hitch / in bad or very bad sea?
>>2072214Everyone experiences it to varying degrees and from what I experience and I'm aware you can't get rid of it, comes back at the next hitch. Me personally I can handle heavy rolling easy but pitching can get me sick and vomiting. Eventually it gets better after a day or two and you do just get used to it.
i'm a fat fucking chud pushing 30 and all I got to show is this this career which I am good at but lately been fatigued and tired of this shit too
I'd like to learn how to ride a bike, but I'm a few hundred pounds overweight. What can I do?
You're not the first one to ask that question, OP. Last time someone posted a bike designed for very heavy riders. Sorry, I can't remember any details...
>>2072027 this>>2072019I was 470 2 years ago now 290ish>Eggs, beans, potato, avocado, rice, oatmeal, cheese>Intermittent fasting >Walk every day no matter what >1100-1500 Cal a day>Vitamin C and anything high in collagen to help tendon recovery >No mouth breathing ever, nose only>No sweets or goyoil >butter, tallow, suet, olive oil, avocado oil are good>Starving yourself and dropping weight by not eating is even worse for your heart>Aim for 1-2 pounds of weight loss a week Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2072451you're american right?
>>2072437That's tricycle weight desu if something like that even exists You'd actually exceed the GVWR for most Harley Davidsons being that big
>>2072218assuming this isn't a troll, I am genuinely not sure if this is doable or not. use the search term "super clydesdale" and look on bike forums for info. I'm pretty sure someone has made this work but you'd have to search around.if it is doable, it'll be a steel frame and probably MTB, of which there are decades of in sizes compatible with your height on the used market, some in high quality, for negligible cost on the used market. I assume rigid because I'm betting no suspension on earth can be tuned for your weight. then probably custom wheels. you might even be able to to a standard 32 spoke count but with 4 or 5 cross lacing pattern. and tires that are pretty wide and pumped up a lot, the silca online guide may help with pressure calculation.anyway, good luck.
I have been on this site for 10 years and I only noticed this board today. Since I'm already here, I'd like to ask a question:Why are train autists so much more hated than other autist brands?
>>2060456>everyone pay for my roads to nowhere and war for oil>others are communists.....
>>2060465why is it so clean
>>2069952Because it was literally brand new inside of the factory.
>>2069954but the type of train it is looks like they don't make it anymore
>>2072462It's a GEVO. They're still widely built all around the world.
The EMUs are out of service. Post your pics here of Queensland Rail service- double imaginary bullshit points for rural/discontinued services
>>2058560That's just a Sydney thing.Which isn't in Queensland.>>2060233Because rail was laid before federation.They actually did consider making it all the same gauge. But some Scottish wanker in NSW wanted to use the Scottish gauge over the agreed upon Irish gauge.So Victoria and SA had Irish gauge.Other states were just being cheap or something and so they did narrow gauge.
>>2049223?
>>2060233what border, australia's borders are called beaches
>>2066588nah they have a maritime border with timor-leste
>>2055247Conductor we have a problem
> Fargo 32 is for riders seeking a drop-bar mountain bike with the new 32er wheel diameter. Available in the fall of 2026, in either a steel or titanium chassis, the Fargo 32 maintains its Salsa DNA with an abundance of cargo mounts, an off-road touring tuned geometry, and clearance for 32 x 2.4″ tires.It's. Happening.
Yea it's dumb new shit that won't change much, BUT AT LEAST IT'S COOL.All these years of "tapered steerer tubes" and "disc brakes" and "noseless saddles" like who the fuck cares manLOOK AT THOSE BIG WHEELS THAT'S COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>2072040I'll agree that hydraulic brakes are better in wet conditions than rim brakes. The difference in braking power when it's raining on my rim brake bike is noticably less. Not by enough to care but enough to take more caution. In the dry though? Shiiiiiiiii I've used mechanical rim brakes before and the difference is negligible and I'm not spending 200 dollars on aliexpress shimano hydros to find out what hydraulic pushbike brakes feel like
>>2072369And to add another thing>pic relatedKill yourself
>>2072370everyone admits that hydros are higher performance but you're a retard if you can't "modulate" cable brakes and an extra 70cm of braking distance is well worth 180$
>>2072390That wasn't the point. The point was that they are not as much of an improvement over older standards than the proponents of hydros would lead you to believe they are. Also that 180 dollars could have been spent on 18 innertubes, which have a real world benefit that is immediate and not marginal like 70cm braking distance.
Post some Low Cost Carrier (LCC) experiences. Personally, I've never had any positive ones and avoid them whenever possible
>>2069071Flew Frontier from Atlanta to Portland, with a layover in Denver. The flight was completely unremarkable. A week later I flew from Seattle to Atlanta, through Denver and once again it was unremarkable.
>>2069336i want to go to japan really really badly. its gonna be so awesome. i wanna go this august once i get my paycheck and summer job ends. please guys reccomend stuff for me to see there, im thiking of going to sapporo or something cuz its so hot in august
>>2072310its okay i flew frontierim still upset, my family is in orlando and spirit could get me there for $100 round trip through most of the year other than major holidays. frontier was $90 lga to mco and delta was $100 mco to lga when i flew this weekend
Flew on a Song airplane on a Delta flight after the latter reabsorbed the former but hadn't rebranded the aircraft yet.
Ryanair is the peak airline, O'Leary should have a monument in Brussels.
Hypothetically imagine a mall so large it requires its own internal transportation system what would that be like?
>>2071550The “Fort Worth Subway” was originally for Leonard’s Department Store, and they got some PCC cars from Washington, DC and made them even more Art Deco futuristic. Later mods as shown in your pic made them boxy and plain but one has been restored to its original glory.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/department-store-monorails-are-a-memory-kids-these-days-wont-haveSome big U.S. department stores had these monorails for kids but they’re all gone now.,
>>2071937Radio Shack was never accused of having good taste.
>>2071938Rich's department store in downtown Atlanta had one called the Pink Pig that also went outside onto the roof. Helps that Decembers aren't very cold in that area.
>>2070941If you count outdoor malls, there are a couple in the LA area (The Grove and The Americana) that have trolley systems. They're really just gimmicks though and don't run all the time. Incidentally The Americana has housing as well like >>2071829 mentions, pretty sizeable (and very expensive) luxury apartments though so nowhere close to the population to sustain the mall.
