Meanwhile, Europe: https://mobility.portal.geops.io/world.geops.transit?layers=...
Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
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#42This is pretty cool. I hope you'll add MARC and Brightline trains as well, as your app evolves.
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#43I didn't know there was a trans-Canadian railroad. Did anyone try it?
It's a big part of the country's history; the project was a key bargaining chip to get BC to join Canada. Development started with the first prime minister and the actual construction was incredibly expensive and filled with controversy over bribes and exploding construction costs, causing gov turnover and bringing the federal gov into significant financial risk a few times. But they did push onward to completion and…
The cross canada rail trip is that deadly combo of exceptionally expensive and exceptionally slow.
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#44Similar for Great Britain: https://www.map.signalbox.io/
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#45Wow, I don't know why I thought there would be... Way, way more trains active at a given time. I suppose I overestimated passenger rail popularity in this country.. I knew it wasn't relatively huge, but there's several hundred miles in some cases between trains.
The site is incomplete, and there are way, way more trains active at a given time. For instance the Tri-Rail and Brightline (high-speed rail) in Florida each have 5-6 trains running simultaneously. Brightline is notable as the US's first credible foray into high-speed rail. Similarly most major cities in the US have either light rail, rapid transit, or both, which is maybe not included in this map. "Passenger rail" might have some highly specific semantic meaning that leaves these out of this map.
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#46In contrast have a look at a snapshot of air travel the other day. https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1729195110888620057?s=20 If we're looking for some low hanging fruit around how to possibly lower CO2 emissions, well folks here it is. The solutions to our climate problem have been staring us in the face since the 1900s.
If we just made train travel an economic and logistical alternative to air travel, it’d make such a difference.
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#47Meanwhile, Europe: https://mobility.portal.geops.io/world.geops.transit?layers=...
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Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#48In contrast have a look at a snapshot of air travel the other day. https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1729195110888620057?s=20 If we're looking for some low hanging fruit around how to possibly lower CO2 emissions, well folks here it is. The solutions to our climate problem have been staring us in the face since the 1900s.
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#49No NJ Transit trains?
I'm currently on the wait-list for the API. Took me 2 days to even figure out how to register.
NJ Transit’s data operation is sub-par. The developers of the “Transit” app have been sparring with them to get live bus data restored https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/transportation/2023/1...
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#50this map seems only show a portion of all running passenger trains ? I just drove by a train station, one train passed by, not on this map, haha
Was it an in-service passenger train? A freight train or out-of-service passenger train wouldn't show up.
Sadly, there's very little data available for most trains on US rails. For example, there's no way (AFAIK) to see what freight trains are active on the network. It's a little frustrating in comparison with how rich our air traffic sources are.
If anyone on HN knows of any richer sources for train network data, please let me know. I'm highly interested!