Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG

dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Trains are a common special interest of people with autism.

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then I must be autistic then, because I love trains and dream of having high speed rail.

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    • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s okay to find out new things about yourself. 🙂

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      for planning your next vacation after statesia does some spring cleaning.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The California railroad museum is definitely one of the best in the country but if you want to see potentially the largest collection with lots of cosmetically and mechanically restored equipment, you have to check out the Illinois Railway Museum

        Of course if you’re more into narrow guage the Colorado Railroad Museum is hard to beat. Or if you just want an epic train ride, take your pick of the Durango and Silverton, the Cumbres and Toltec or the Royal Gorge Route

        Personally I’ve been to the California Railroad Museum (back when they were still Orange Empire), the Illinois Railway Museum, the Cumbres and Toltec and the Colorado Railroad Museum. The IRM is great anytime but especially if you come during an event weekend like Labor Day or Memorial Day because they run their mainline and trolley loop at full capacity during the holiday weekends with as many as 8 trains running at once, but they also have enough accessible equipment even on weekdays when they just run a single electric interurban to make it still worth a visit. The Colorado Railroad museum whelmed me when I was there on a weekday, but I’m sure it’s far more exciting on a weekend or event day with more going on. It’s pretty small but has pretty unique collection (including 3! of the galloping gooses) Cumbres and Toltec was definitely a worthy bucket list ride, and when I was at the California Railroad Museum I joined a tour group, had the entire group split off, so the guide took me off the beaten path and gave me a really in depth tour of literally everything he has keys to and shared a ton of neat information about a lot of the equipment (such as the interurbans that were specifically built to serve one of the college campuses. As he put it “y’know how in Wisconsin bored college kids will go cow tipping? Well here they’d go street car tipping, so they built these to be much heavier so they couldn’t be tipped and ran them exclusively at the campus”)

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  • Awkwardparticle@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know two neurodivergent people that love trains, one is into models and the other trainspotting. They are correct too, trains are awesome.

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How many neurodivergent people do you know though.

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      • Awkwardparticle@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I am in the computer science field, so the answer is a bunch, us nd people accel in fields that interest us. Plus my personal friends and family members.

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  • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, but how does that pertain to this picture, I would need like a before and after photo to know any context for this image, thank you for sharing, though I appreciate the response response

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    • pedz@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In two parts.

      1. The before map would be of the only high speed train the US currently has, and it’s the Acela Express. So, something like this.

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      2. If lots of people are consuming Tylenol in day to day life, and it causes autism, and some autistic people love trains, then the US should have a system like the map posted.

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      • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I always forget the Acela is technically a high speed rail. It would only actually be a tiny fraction of that line. Less than 10% of the line is HSR

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The good news is that soon there’ll be the California High Speed rail line. I’m hopeful that I can make a good long trip over there once it opens in a few years to check it out. Heck maybe I’ll move to California for a year or two? Who knows!

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    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In short, the US has absolutely zero high-speed rail infrastructure - and barely any rail infrastructure at all compared to what it used to have and the size of the country.

      This was one of many proposed high-speed rail networks from (I think) the late 2000s/early 2010s, but the fledgling train companies were largely strangled or bought up and closed by freight rail, car, and fossil fuel companies, so nothing ever happened.

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      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        China will swallow up everything. This is how useless that extremist, “fuck the peasants” ideology is. It just leads to being outcompeted heavily.

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      • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        OK, so it was like a real life who framed Roger rabbit situation, thank you for taking the time to explain

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      • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We have rail infrastructure…it just happens all be mostly owned by freight rail companies

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    • 5too@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If Tylenol caused autism, there would be a lot more support for trains in the U.S.

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• TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s something that happened in the meme-o-sphere and I too am left out

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