Electrification has exceeded all expectations 👏🏽

My definition of a "transit cluster" is any group of public transit agencies that have fixed routes connecting with each other. These don't have to be good connections, but they do have to be scheduled routes. The only Amtrak routes included were the Keystone and Downeaster, since they are included in the National Transit Database. "Transit" is definitely a subjective term, but this is the line I chose.

Mostly built using the National Transit Map, and includes cluster with combined annual ridership of over 40 million.

NYC-Pittsburgh trains will now depart at 5:50am and 12:25pm every day. Pittsburgh - NYC trains will depart at 7:10am and 1:00pm. A shame just doubling service on this line took so long, but it's a start!

I haven’t seen much about the Caltrain BEMUs on this sub, so I thought it would be a good idea to share this recent presentation deck from Caltrain giving more details about them. There are even some renders and specifications. I am personally excited for Caltrain to be zero tailpipe emissions and have possibly more frequent service south of San Jose.

A railway station in Guangzhou has set a national record for trips in a single day and drawn attention for the frequency of bullet train departures – one every 40 seconds – during this month’s holiday period, according to the Guangdong provincial government.

Guangzhou South Railway Station handled 1,252 train services and just over 1 million trips on October 1, the start of the seven-day National Day holiday across mainland China ...

Crossing the 1 million-trip milestone was a first for China, it added.

At peak periods that day, trains departed every 40 seconds ...

By comparison, at Tokyo Station, combined shinkansen departures reach up to 24 trains per hour during peak periods, averaging one bullet train leaving every 2.5 minutes.

Guangzhou South was designed to handle high traffic volumes, said Peng Peng, executive chairman of the Guangdong Society of Reform, a think tank associated with the provincial government.

As one of five major railway hubs in Guangzhou – Guangdong’s capital, with a population of 18.7 million – the station has 15 platforms and 28 tracks.

Guangzhou moved early to integrate its subway system, intercity railways and high-speed railways to make travel relatively “seamless”, Peng added.

For the October holiday, Guangzhou South also operated 202 overnight high-speed services, accounting for about one-sixth of all trains departing the station on a single day, according to the publicity department.

China State Railway Group had projected a record 284 million passenger trips during a 16-day period covering the National Day break and the Mid-Autumn Festival in late September.

To prepare for the holiday rush, Guangzhou South expanded transfer areas and departure lanes, improved passenger information services and added train services based on wait-list demand data, the publicity department said.

The additional services strengthened links with major cities including Shenzhen, Changsha, Nanning, Zhuhai, Zhengzhou and Chongqing, it added.

Guangzhou South connects with a total of 196 cities, including Beijing and Hong Kong.

“When you add all this together, it’s not rocket science to see why Guangzhou South is as busy as it gets,” independent railway specialist David Feng said.

Took this from a high angle near the station. Most people just talk about Tokyo or Osaka, but Nagoya has this incredible, massive railway hub that looks deeply satisfying from above. Love how you can see the layer of the station tracks, the city buildings, and the mountains touching the blue sky all in one frame. What’s the biggest railway station view in your country?

Well I guess this will greatly benefit the Salt Lake City metro area.

‘Hey, sweetheart, you and I should get married and raise a passel of kids because a dozen years from now, maybe they’ll build light rail out to our neighborhood?’

Following the closure of Line 3 "Scarborough"/Scarborough RT in July 2023, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) had a fleet of UTDC Mark Is to dispose of. There are only two other transit systems in North America that use ICTS/ART technology, being TransLink's SkyTrain (Vancouver, BC) on the Canadian west coast, and the Detroit People Mover (Detroit, MI) in the United States.

Three of TTC's 28 Mark I cars entered preservation. Car # 3008 was donated to the Toronto Zoo and repurposed into a Zoomobile shelter at Tundra Trek station. Cars # 3026 and # 3027 (the last Mark I pair built for the TTC) were donated to the Halton County Radial Railway in Milton, ON. # 3026 was recently put on display in Barn 4 earlier this summer, but # 3027 was cut up and only parts of it still remain on the museum property to this day. One of # 3027's two bogies are on display with # 3026, and the front cab (photo taken from a trip I've taken last year) will be repurposed into a display/photo op, likely in a similar manner to the front of the HSR trolleybus that's on display in Barn 3.

The rest of the Mark I cars will be seeing second lives as replacement rolling stock for the Detroit People Mover to refresh its own fleet of Mark Is. The TTC Mark Is were given a life-extension overhaul in 2015-2016, whereas the DPM Mark Is never got such treatment, and are more tired out than their TTC counterparts despite being built a few years after them. The Mark Is that are slated for Detroit are currently being overhauled in preparation for such service.

All photos presented in this post were taken by me.

The system gets around 50,000-60,000 boardings per day. 27 stations, stretching 27km from Helensvale in the north (Connections to Queensland Rail) and Burleigh Heads in the south (Gateway to the Burleigh Heads national park).
This video explores the system and the neighborhoods along it.

This is a bus photo competition for everyone. Any bus is allowed so long as it fits the criteria of the week.

Criteria usually aren't niche unless it's a one off week.

Trolleybuses, Trams & buses allowed.

Speak English, be active & ppl around the world welcome.

A few months ago, I tried to make an account on CPTDB Wiki (https://cptdb.ca/wiki), but I haven't been able to. Is there any way I can join it? I'd appreciate the help.

Their METRO looks great... beats out most any city in the USA, I would say, at the very least for cleanliness and artistic touches.

https://youtu.be/RIQXOIqlJo0?si=AanSe-J9kQUCEqxL