High speed doesn’t have to mean non-stop.
Will New Technology Make High-Speed Rail Obsolete?
Do new technologies undermine the case for fast trains?
The product of the railways is the timetable
A railway moves people around, not trains
Virtual Assistant Controlled HO Scale Model Railroad - Stephan Lamb Associates
The Traffic King of Reddit
by Brian O’ConnorLast week, while avoiding work, I stared at a gif of an endless model train spiral for what seemed like hours, transfixed by the constant, seamlessly looping stream of miniature carriages, moving without end, going nowhere, ...
Ode to the Shanghai Metro - Phoebe Lemon
Wayfinding has many applications, and arguably the most important one is public transportation systems. Granted, there are many different ways to design such a system, and the politics and culture of the environment in which it will be integrated certainly plays a large role. Interestingly, often when we discuss transportation systems on the global scale, individuals are so quick to praise New York or London’s metro systems, Europe’s “high speed” rail system, or how “Uber is the most original new technology cities have seen”. All of these statements are subjective, but somehow they’ve become accepted fact, especially in the West, and I argue that anyone who gives European/American public transport that much praise is blissfully living in a bubble. As an international student who grew up in America and has visited most of its major cities, lived in China for two years, and is now studying in the Middle East, I’ve had the opportunity to use almost every public transportation system to exist. Old fashion taxis, the Maglev, high speed trains, shared bikes, shared mopeds, carpools, the bus, the metro, I have used them all, but nothing quite compares to the way China does public transport.
Opinion | Sorry, You Can’t Speed Read (Published 2016)
Don’t be fooled by courses or digital technologies that promise otherwise.
The Real Transit Map
Just because a route is on the map doesn’t mean that it’s useful.
The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing
Slow AI is smooth AI, smooth AI is fast AI
When "fits and starts" is the most efficient path - @ASmartBear
When you go full-speed in one direction for a hot minute, then slam on the brakes and do something else, and keep doing that, and it's actually the correct course of action.
Railway raises $100M Series B to unburden the builders
Railway has raised $100M to unburden the builders, unlock the creatives, and unleash human potential
Relativity Park: Walking Speed of Light
Special relativity simulator in which light crawls along at a human speed, so Lorentz contraction, aberration and Doppler shift happen at walking pace.
Our Duty - shepherds in the future
walking the path of acceleration means sticking together
Brett Scott (@brettscott)
Despite all the rhetoric about automation supposedly making our lives easier, the true story being told by Big Tech is that our lives are better when speeded up You are supposed to be in an ever-accelerating race, packing more units of experience into the same unit of time, a phenomenon that requires a contraction of patience and a blurring of experience as everything quickens In the end, this is what ‘convenience’ actually is. It’s a state of being in which you become disassociated and disengaged from the texture of the world around you. You pass through it dreamlike, and suddenly wake up decades years later as an elderly person on your deathbed, thinking “WTF happened”, as then the memory slips away
Speed: How It Explains the World - Vaclav Smil
In a world that feels like it’s moving faster than ever, Smil examines how our relentless pursuit of speed – in areas such as production, travel and communication – shapes not only our technological landscape but also our social and environmental realities. And through engaging anecdotes and striking statistics, Smil challenges the assumption that faster is always better.
Matt Jones on Instagram: "A trio of CSX Geeps lead M780 North through the massive Big Hormady Cut at Tantallon, TN. Even with the Cowan pusher shoving on the bottom the 39 car local struggled up the steep mountain grade. #railphotos_usa #railsupremacy #trb_express #pocket_rail #daily_crossing #railroadphotography #railroad #RailfanDepot #railfan #railfans_of_instagram #railfannation #trains_magazine #trains_worldwide #tennessee #trainsofinstagram #travel #trains #rock #fall #mountains #canonusa #canonphoto #canon"
1,274 likes, 16 comments - rusty_rail_junkie on October 26, 2021: "A trio of CSX Geeps lead M780 North through the massive Big Hormady Cut at Tantallon, TN. Even with the Cowan pusher shoving on the bottom the 39 car local struggled up the steep mountain grade. #railphotos_usa #railsupremacy #trb_express #pocket_rail #daily_crossing #railroadphotography #railroad #RailfanDepot #railfan #railfans_of_instagram #railfannation #trains_magazine #trains_worldwide #tennessee #trainsofinstagram #travel #trains #rock #fall #mountains #canonusa #canonphoto #canon".
