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claire!

@floppaphoto.com
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i take pictures of trains 🚊 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ she/her - ig: @floppaphoto

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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 01/04/2026
goodbye, DC streetcar. some photos from last night
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 16/12/2025
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 22/10/2025
online urbanists when its time to negatively polarize people outside their yuppie bubbles with thinly veiled racism
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a basketball player with the number 23 on his jersey jumps into the air
ALT: a basketball player with the number 23 on his jersey jumps into the air
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 17/08/2025
✌️ :P
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 14/08/2025
how it feels 2 know that i have the most swag on this brown line train
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 23/07/2025
odd signage on metra
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 21/07/2025
here's a few 😊
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 19/07/2025
i checked but i don't think i have any photos of the 2 together 💔
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 09/06/2025
least annoying michigan driver
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 03/06/2025
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 02/06/2025
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 02/06/2025
who wants to go see aurora with me at loyola beach tonight
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 02/06/2025
to the trans girl who just smiled at me as i got on the southbound 22 in andersonville i am so sorry for making a 🤨 face at you you seem very cool i just was trying to figure out if i know you
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 28/05/2025
this city is so gorgeous
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 14/05/2025
hey if you're in chicago and want a cool treat please consider looking somewhere besides miko's italian ice. it's ridiculous and shameful to fire someone for taking a basic safety measure that doesn't interfere with anythiny
to my followers in chicago: avoid Miko's Italian Ice
my gf wears a mask in public because she lives with someone
who is immunocompromised and wants to keep them safe
after making it through their (really competitive) process, she got the job
come day 1, she was told "you can either take off the mask or not
work here"
it's messed up for a business to show this much disregard for their employees. spread the word
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 11/03/2025
what... i can't tell if this is actually this guy's badge number 😭😭😭
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 11/03/2025
who's going to the merch mart CTA pin giveaway?
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 10/03/2025
to round out this photo thread... here's some other shots i got out in milwaukee. thanks for stopping by!
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 10/03/2025
ren and I also took the Connect BRT (also pretty Fast and Decent) out west to check out these huge catenary poles - some of the last remnants of the TMER&L mainline that once connected milwaukee to outlying cities across wisconsin with fast electric trains.
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 10/03/2025
for the bus foamers: some other flicks i caught
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 10/03/2025
this system is pretty small, only serving downtown & immediate areas. milwaukee has many dense neighborhoods and corridors that could definitely be served by rapid rail - these mixed traffic streetcars, though, are low enough in capacity & speed that they're probably best kept circulating downtown.
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 10/03/2025
BOO!! photo thread! milwaukee's Hop streetcar is actually pretty cool. a couple saturdays ago, @renzaro.com and i visited the city - a first for both of us. frequencies weren't the greatest, but the vehicles were pretty nice & we moved quickly thanks to skilled operators. decently busy too!
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 03/03/2025
It is incredibly annoying that Divvy forces you to buy an annual membership. If they offered a monthly payment option I would definitely try it...
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 02/03/2025
"New yorkers are rude assholes" ok have you been to wisconsin
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 01/03/2025
DING! Stop requested.
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 07/02/2025
on the overcast evening of february 5, 2025, an outbound metra electric express rolls past 18th street 📸
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 16/01/2025
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 19/11/2024
I need to get one of those black windbreakers with the CTA emblem on the sleeve
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 17/11/2024
Amtrak's Capitol Limited(RIP) trundles across the Shenandoah River with Chargers in the lead Harpers Ferry, WV / 24 Feb 2024
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 16/11/2024
Fast-paced terminal action at Coney Island-Stillwell Brooklyn, NY / 26 July 2024
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 08/11/2024
idk if i'm too late to this but feel free to use any of these
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 22/10/2024
Make sure to look at part 1 (1914): bsky.app/profile/flop...
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 22/10/2024
Once again, this map both uses some artistic license and is based off real world events from Baltimore, Philly, and beyond! Feel free to ask about anything. PDF available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1tLJ5... Map-only PNG:
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 22/10/2024
What if Baltimore had a legacy rapid transit system? This is part 2 of my series exploring an alternate universe where that happens. In this map, we jump ahead to 1939, where the Great Depression and formation of the BTCO have shaken things up... Check it out :)
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 18/10/2024
It's not directly based on any plans but draws from numerous real world events/policies. Many plans were proposed during the early 1900s but implementation always fell apart politically. BTCO would not exist until 1935.
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 18/10/2024
More maps are either coming soon/in the pipeline, so stay tuned. Feel free to ask any questions! PDF version of this: drive.google.com/file/d/1Qe9Q... +PNG of map without explanation text:
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 18/10/2024
This map is one of a 7-part series exploring the theoretical evolution of this system, and how Baltimore could have changed along with it. I've drawn extensive inspiration from the real world timelines of rapid transit in America, to come up with something that feasibly could have happened!
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 18/10/2024
What if Baltimore began building its rapid transit network near the turn of the 20th century like New York, Boston, or Chicago did? In this map, I imagined the state of Baltimore's fictional rapid transit network as of 1914, and how it got there...
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 17/10/2024
i am well and fully aware of that but it's like. ok. thats still a variant of a mac.
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 17/10/2024
a metra MAC leads a MD-N train out of CUS during a crowded rush hour 📸
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 08/10/2024
yeah... it's hard to keep track of so many apps at once and Bluesky just feels like something extra to me right now. have seen a lot of people from twitter shifting over though and was pondering doing the same myself
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 08/10/2024
*taps mic* hello? is anyone On Here?
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 26/09/2023
hello. i keep forgetting about this app, i’m sorry 😭 here are some shots around mount royal station on a rainy day. the light rail has been bustituted north of north avenue because a tree fell on the tracks. the mta is not good at handling it. 📸
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Ryan Keefe @weeseandbeyond.bsky.social · 20/07/2023
And we are off on Metro speed run starting exactly at 11am
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 10/07/2023
That is not how this works. You kill interoperability and needed capacity and the cost of shrinking things is considerable. There is literally no reason to do this. Do you ride the metro? What are you thinking??
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 10/07/2023
Conversion to light metro would kill the system
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rust belt city enjoyer @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
"getting 1,000 likes on Twitter, I sleep. 

Getting 16 likes on Bluesky, real shit."
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claire! @floppaphoto.com · 03/07/2023
one of my favorite shots: here’s an acela stopped at stamford, featuring the funny flip-out mirror 📸
acela powercar 2011 leads a dc-bound train as it makes a stamford station stop. it’s dark out, but the sky is more of a dark blue than black, as it hasn’t gotten too late yet. a wide angle reveals the detail of the station and the salt on the platform in the cold december air, and the acela’s headlights flare and reflect off the platform edge.
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