Public Transport Fanblog

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Welcome to my gimmick side blog dedicated to curating posts about public transit!

Here I'll be reblogging posts about public transportation and making some original posts about my own fondness for and experiences using forms of mass transit.

There'll be lot's of light-hearted foaming, over trains especially. Though transit, as a public utility, is inherently political. So, be prepared to get serious from time to time.

I also write image descriptions sometimes but I am still learning so please feel free to let me know if I can improve them in some way.

[spitelesss]

if you sneeze without covering your mouth on public transit then you deserve *pauses to consider my convictions regarding punitive justice* *nods head resolutely* the death penalty

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[a-rail-fan]

Avanti Pride Class 390

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[nyancrimew]

if english speakers can learn just one more german word to use it should be "ticketficker" ("ticketfucker", derogatory slang term 4 "ticket inspector")

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[hisuizorua]

they call it amtrak because the trains am on the trak

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[coast-modern]

isn't it kind of crazy that for any moving vehicle you need to wear a seatbelt but then on buses they're just like fuck it stand up whatever

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i think she's beautiful

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Return to Colmor

Over the last eighteen months or so I'd been planning a trip to New Mexico to work on a new project on the Great Divide. While the Raton Subdivision (of the ATSF) is quite a bit east of that subject, I made extra time at the end of the trip to hit one of my favorite spots: Colmor.

And more than I few times during the last year, I've pondered a different approach to the semaphores at the east end of the siding at there. I've shot there with a long lens from the south more than once, with this being the first time I photographed there (Colmor 2018).

For a new approach I intended to walk down the tracks from the road crossing to the (compass) north. After driving from Glorieta (see previous post), I figured I'd have enough time to walk the mile—at altitude—and still have half an hour to set up.

Indeed, I had plenty of time. I stood behind my tripod and watched the skies as the weather was quite interesting: a rain storm was skirting by to the south. I was fine with it, thinking this would provide some nice drama—until I saw the lightning. I instantly realized how exposed I was in this treeless landscape and crouched down away from my tripod for a time. I wanted visual interest, but I did not want my body to be super-heated to a temperature of 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, even for a split second. After a period of time I figured I was going to be mostly clear of the danger and returned to my post.

The Southwest Chief eventually showed, pretty much fulfilling what I had held in my mind's eye for months. For me, the money shot is the penultimate one here as the locomotive is largest while one can still see all three of the 100 year old semaphores.

Four images by Richard Koenig; taken April 7th 2026.

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[redstonedust]

woman on the bus next to me furiously doing a 7x7 rubix cube at a speed that implies she's done this a thousand times. maybe i do understand lesbians actually.

[redstonedust]

she finished the cube and spent the rest of the bus ride staring dead straight ahead. unmoving. perhaps some kind of cube fuelled robot.

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[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

love when a charlie brown adult starts making an announcement over the MTA system and you just sort of have to hope it wasn't that important

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omg this is a goldmine for public transport on this webbed site

i thought i was one of the last,,,

sincerely

@melbournetrains admin

aww thank you so much! :D

your blog is a treasure trove of excellent photos

[gayvampyr]

me after a minor inconvenience: i hope i get hit by a [remembers i’m anti car-centric infrastructure] pedestrian

[arson-the-artificer-offical]

Bus, cos we're for public transport, aren't we?

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[melbournetrains]

this bus looks just like you!

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[Image ID: Photo of a city bus at an intersection. Wavy stripes in colours of the progress pride flag cover the side of the bus which also features the text "You are loved." /End ID]

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[british-rail-official]

best activity to do on a train

kiss girls

yearn

read a book

eat snacks

listen to podcast/music/sounds various

hide in the bathroom cause youre fair evading

sit on the floor (its really busy)

watch yourself on a tracking app

stare out the window

do your coursework

drive it!

cling to the outside like in a spy movie

Voting ended onMar 17

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That’s just the power of public transportation

I'm not sure what this is in reference to but yes, yes it is

[queer-as-city-folk]

Fun fact: the most expensive subway project by cost per mile, ever, was the Second Ave Subway in NYC at 4.6 billion usd for 2 miles of track, in comparison:

[queer-as-city-folk]

The US can't fund the most important infrastructure projects to decarbonize and fix our infrastructure, but we can spend 3 times that to bomb elementary schools

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[Image ID: NBC News headline "First 6 days of Iran war cost $11.3 billion, Pentagon tells Congress". /End ID]

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[queer-as-city-folk]

How have I never seen you before??

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i'm shy