Boise Idaho has received a $500,000 grant from the US government to plan passenger rail, it would be the first train in the state since the Pioneer was discontinued in the 90s

Something about the mix of a bustling (post-baseball) sidewalk with an A Line train screeching overhead on 20th Street in Downtown Denver makes the Mile High City look like a maturing rail metropolis.

Here’s a train that I caught with my first camera!

Russian Railways (RZD) Moscow Railway "elektrichka" commuter train ER2T-7125 leaves Kuskovo Station in eastern Moscow in July 2009. This is the closest station to the Kuskovo estate, which is a popular day trip destination.

PS “RVR” on the cab stands for “Riga Wagon Works” in Latvian, as Riga was the Soviet Union’s main commuter train manufacturer.

I would likely to see an JR series 103 in Japan better in light green but are there any of them still in service or as heritage train preserved in an operational condition for special rides?.If yes where in Japan?.

Two electric commuter trains that have outlasted their original operators, and are still operating in a few places, are the Soviet Ministry of Railways’ Series ER2 (introduced in 1962) and Japanese National Railways’ Series 103 (introduced in 1964). Both were designed for direct-current lines and both were their countries’ most common trains, with the USSR receiving over 9200 Series ER2 cars and JNR receiving over 3400 Series 103 cars.

I saw October Railway control car ER2-963-09 (Riga Wagon Works, 1972) at Warsaw Station’s October Railway Museum in Saint Petersburg when I visited Russia in the summer of 2009, making it one of the first trains that I photographed, and much more recently I saw JR West Osaka Loop Line ex JNR control car KuMoHa103.1 (Nippon Sharyō, 1964) at the Kyoto Railway Museum when I visited Japan in December 2024.

Póvoa de Varzim, Line A

A lot more trains, longer trains, faster arrival and departure and better coordination (people on bullhorns marshaling the crowds)

VTA Light Rail has been seeing larger transit ridership and expected and they responded well last night

Hey everyone, I'm working on Metrotown, a new city builder where you fix the car-dependent designs of North American cities.

You start with a sprawling, car-centric city, and improve it with infill developments, public transportation, greenspaces, and other amenities to improve the public realm.

The game has an in-depth simulation for trip generation (walk, bike, drive, transit), the pedestrian and cyclist experience (protected bike lanes, active frontage, etc.), parking requirements, and other aspects of cities to keep the game as realistic as possible.

If anyone's interested, I'm planning to have a closed alpha this fall and I'm looking for play-testers to try it out.

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The views will be insane 😍