Thanksgiving 2025
It’s Thanksgiving and also the First Sunday of Advent. (1) 2026 FIFA World Cup pots: December 5 draw structure announced for groups in next summer’s tournament (CBS SPORTS) (1a) Southampton Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Transportation
Weekend 650.0 (Diablos Del Cielo)
The OMNY cards are boring and could be from any city, and yes, you can “pay fares directly with digital wallets, contactless credit and debit cards” but just like tokens Continue Reading →
Final Atari Box, Part 1
Started this project in late October but was REALLY stuck. The central image was uninspiring and broke from the style of the first boxes. I just couldn’t find artwork from Continue Reading →
Weekend 596.0
Table 1: Top 20 most used stations in Great Britain, 2022-23 Station Entries/Exits Change from 2021-22 (% +) Liverpool Street 80,448,194 150 Paddington 59,182,926 148 Waterloo 57,789,780 40 London Bridge Continue Reading →
You are here (and the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters but no pearls)
It’s a grim post for a title but as the dust settles on the festive period realities start to preoccupy. It’s like the feeling you have late Sunday afternoon after Continue Reading →
Anchor chains, plane motors, and train whistles
Railfan, train buff, railway enthusiast, railway buff, trainspotter, or ferroequinologist? Watch ‘Railways for Ever’ (1970) by Sir John BetjemanVisit the National Railway Museum in YorkFind ‘Waterloo Station’ (1967) by Terence Continue Reading →
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
It was tough getting flights back to JFK from São Paulo because of visibility related to the Canadian wildfires so some quick re-routing had us in Washington DC and then Continue Reading →
Weekend 568.1
(1) NYC Subway Maps: Historical Maps (1a) Subway Art Card for the MTA by Visual Storyteller Feifei Ruan (1b) Commuter Rail Guide designed by Joan Charysyn (1975)
Weekend 567.0
(1) How to Play: Race the Rails the TfL Card Game (YouTube) (2) Ebbsfleet International to Stratford International / British Rail Class 395 Javelin (Train Sim World 3) (2a) Limestone Continue Reading →
Weekend 554.1
Settling, unpacking, and re-playing KH3. I’m a completionist and there’s one very (very) difficult trophy left. The Limestone Library is about 1/3 restored. I’ve pulled a couple of books from Continue Reading →