A lovely map — thanks for using Leaflet and keeping that little Ukrainian flag in the corner! Probably needs an attribution for the map added too (looks like it's Carto with an OpenStreetMap-derived basemap).
thanks - done!
Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
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#132Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#133Here's one more for your list: https://southshore.etaspot.net Southshore Line - connecting Chicago, IL (Millennium Station) to South Bend, IN, via East Chicago, Gary, Chesterton, etc
Added to the list - thanks! This is different from metra yeah?
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#134Very cool. Please add SMART! https://sonomamarintrain.org/
added to the list - thanks!
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#135Any plans to support Denver's commuter trains (RTD)?
I rode it a few weeks ago and completely forgot about it! I'll add it to the list. thanks!
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#136It's sad that even great potential routes like SF->LA aren't accessible by train, and we don't seem to have the state capacity to build HSR there. I was just in Japan, and took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto, which is a similar distance as SF to LA. That train: - runs every 10 minutes -- if you miss one, just take the next one! - takes 2.5 hours travel time - starts and ends in city centers on both ends. - has be…
I like the Shinkansen but it's also very expensive - that journey is ¥14,170 one way, and the discounts for return tickets or advance booking are vanishingly small. Even with the incredibly weak yen I can see same-day SF-LA flights cheaper than that.
(¥14,170 is approximately $95USD)
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#137It's sad that even great potential routes like SF->LA aren't accessible by train, and we don't seem to have the state capacity to build HSR there. I was just in Japan, and took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto, which is a similar distance as SF to LA. That train: - runs every 10 minutes -- if you miss one, just take the next one! - takes 2.5 hours travel time - starts and ends in city centers on both ends. - has be…
Same experience on my first Japan trip earlier this year. Why can't we have nice things over here?
But if there were nice things then other people would profit from that too. Especially those people [gestures vaguely]. /s
In the country of individualism, options that are better but would also help other people who haven't directly contributed to it aren't very popular.
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#138Looks like the Alaska Railroad doesn't have any publicly available location data on their site - https://www.alaskarailroad.com/
Which is a shame, because I actually worked on a live train map internally when I was an intern there a decade ago.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Acela isn't HSR, and Metroliner which came before had travel times from NYC to DC as low as 2.5 hours. Acela does the same trip in 3.5 hours. Metroliner lowered trip times primarily through faster acceleration.
> Acela does the same trip in 3.5 hours. I just rode it last week, and it actually took 3 hours, not 3.5. Most of the NEC corridor from DC to NYC has a speed limit of 125mph; from NYC to New Haven, it's generally 70mph (!), from New Haven thence to about Kingston generally 90mph, and from there to Boston it's mostly 150mph. Given the density of the corridor, Amtrak should be trying for 150-220mph speed limits, but ev…
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/11/24/curves-in-fast... is a good analysis for anyone who doesn't want to believe jcranmer or wants more detail. (what I linked is a second best approach, but it links to other low hanging fruit like switches)
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is actually a problem in Germany that high-speed trains too often share tracks with slower passenger and freight trains. Other countries like Japan put their high-speed trains on completely separate tracks.
This is also a problem with IIRC the Acela and other Amtrak routes between Boston and New York, and probably on other routes too.
Amtrak owns most (all?) of the NEC track between New York and Boston. Most other routes are freight train owned and Amtrak has issues. Though the freights claim the issue is Amtrak is late for their assigned times and once that happens they lose priority, if Amtrak was on time they claim that they would let Amtrak through on time. (one fright that doesn't let Amtrak through on time will cascade to being late for all transfers, so the freights can overall be right and still wrong just because of the one exception) I don't know how to evaluate this claim.