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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 9h
loco-hauled trains lining central's platforms with regular departures this weekend gave some nice vibes
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Public Transport Users Association @ptua.org.au · 16h
🎂Happy 45th birthday to V/Line's N class carriages, which first entered service on 5th October 1981. Unlike most of the newer VLocity trains, they have catering, and easy access to all carriages. The VLocity design is 20+ years old; it's time for a new design of regional train for Victoria.
Passengers board an N class train at Southern Cross station
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 15h
you’re not allowed to ride the bendy part of ryde depot’s new articulated buses. ottawa’s oc transpo puts two-seater longitudinal bench seats in this spot, its a fun place to sit
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 18h
i did the central station clock tower tour
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 19h
im fascinated with the idea that there are simulator computer games for everyone’s jobs and holders of those jobs are bemused that people want to play such a game
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 21h
these special notices they put in the boards could do with better graphic design
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 21h
they opened the engine hood doors so we can peek at the GEVO-12 engine
open engine bay doors of a locomotive
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i have to remind myself that Indigenous Australians used to eat bogong moths, to stop me worrying about the possibility of one flying into my mouth while i sleep
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i rode on a CPH railmotor at the transport heritage expo today. i have a ticket for one more activity tomorrow!
heritage trainsaloon of hertage trainfront of heritage train
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
heritage trains always seem like they need grease on their moving parts and their fasteners tightened. i know they get looked after, but thats not how they sounded in service, right?
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the destination indicators on the trains from newcastle are lit “knights express” for the grand final. if they can do this, surely they can put “the fish” for the 5pm-ish mt victoria express
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
not sure why I made this but now you have to see it
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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think the Auckland CRL has shown Kiwis love trains. And now the Greens step in and say “What about the CRL, but for the whole country?” And people, who remember love the CRL, are saying “Yes! Choo choo motherfucker!”, and hopefully choo choo motherfucker we shall. #nzpol
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i only have one or two bogong moths infiltrating my house at a time, but at least theyre easy to catch and release outside
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
every time i see one of these NSW&VR NAM coaches, i weep. we could still have/have again a sydney-melbourne night train
Sleeper train car
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i took a heritage train ride on a nswr 620/720 railcar. i have other activities booked for this year’s transport heritage expo!
heritage trainReflection of train in commercial building windows
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you’ll need more than 6 car vlocities
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
does lane actually use the metro regularly? he may be my new transit-loving hockey player
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/r/Habs @habsonreddit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A professor at University of Waterloo, who’s a Habs fan, got chirped by his students, who are Leafs fans, before the season opener on Tuesday. This was the professor’s first lecture slide in today’s class.
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a thing i like about railway modelling is the world building? people seem to love coming up with lore for their trains or their fictional location
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it’s world postcard day today!
postcards about to be placed into a post box
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this is wild. sydney yard must have been cables-and-pulleys, rodding, or electro-pneumatic long before this ended in toronto
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
im catching up on this morning’s season opening game between the toronto maple leafs and montréal canadiens. i’ve always followed both teams but this year i might make the habs my primary
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i love that supermarkets and the postal service in norway still send goods by rail! (the rema 1000, spar, bring and postnord containers on flats and truck trailers in well cars)
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Togtrafikk 2026 - august del 1
YouTube video by Ole Kristian Jakobsen
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i was listening to someone talk about star trek but i kept hearing it as 'star track', but then i realised that they were from victoria and thats how they pronounce the 'e'
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“tram drivers from 26 cities across the continent – and melbourne – competing for the greatest prize in european tram driving”
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FULL HIGHLIGHTS: The European Tram Driver Championships 2026
YouTube video by The Tim Traveller
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
berlin southern cross station?
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
bad bevensen was my bully in high school
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
an emu escaped in norway. do we tell them that you can never beat an emu? ask us how we know
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
imagine mainline railway electrification in australia
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Diesel rationing could come in weeks and prices could top $4/ltr, says Saul Kavonic | The Business
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i love this train service in particular
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i wish them every success in their bargaining, and may their pension fund continue to invest in our infrastructure
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
im jealous of the level of amenity in regular long distance trains in norway
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Der schönste Zug, mit dem du wahrscheinlich nie fahren wirst!
YouTube video by bahnblick
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
oh man this team keeps dropping the guys i like
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i recently finished this book about the railwaymen that repaired and operated the french and belgian railways and kept the allied front lines supplied after D-Day. it made me want to get this USATC S160 (mass produced locomotives for war service) but i don’t even model in OO gauge (well not anymore)
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 20/09/2026
The gunzels’ grand final: Melbourne Tramaroos’ campaign derails at European TramDriver Championship
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The gunzels’ grand final: Melbourne Tramaroos’ campaign derails at European TramDriver Championship
The Warsaw event saw 26 teams compete across a series of demanding tasks, inspired - to varying degrees - by tram drivers’ day-to-day tasks * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It’s the grand final for gunzels. But despite having one of the largest tram networks in the world, Melbourne’s Tramaroos finished second last at this year’s European TramDriver Championship, just ahead of London. The event, held in Warsaw on Saturday, saw 26 teams compete across a series of demanding tasks, inspired – to varying degrees – by tram drivers’ day-to-day work. Continue reading...
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My wife and I were so hot when we were young. She was very beautiful and I was so handsome. Now we are in our late sixties, I look like Danny Divito and she looks like Mitch Miconnell. I can't unsee it now.
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“what is saint pierre and miquelon?” its the setting and backdrop for an amazing CBC cop drama
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Macron visits remote French territory in the North America, a first in over a decade • FRANCE 24
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
imagine the spirit had better transit connections at either end. like a devonport-hobart coach
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i am reminded that the ploughing is on again in ireland
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
stadler is at innotrans this year showing a sleeper version of their FLIRT EMUs for norway
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FLIRT Nordic Express at the InnoTrans 2026 | Stadler
Discover the FLIRT Nordic Express for Norske tog AS at InnoTrans 2026. Learn more about the modern train and its presentation in the exhibition’s outdoor display area.
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
öbb has apparently just completed some tests with europe’s digital automatic coupler program. been loosely following it for a while, seems to be a scharfenberg coupler adapted to freight service. but they only seem to be rated for half the length of trains coupled using knuckle couplers
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DAK - Kleines Bauteil, große Wirkung
YouTube video by unsereOEBB
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
did the auckland crl use the same architects as sydney metro
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this is less than an equivalent fare in norway (oslo-hamar, ~$60) but more than new south wales (sydney-newcastle, ~$10)
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
they should have called this show ‘water rats’
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
im really super keen to eventually visit auckland for this
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i had a glass of tonic water and now i'm feeling weird after it, maybe i'm actually a malaria plasmodium
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
montreal canadiens jersey cameo appearance right at the end!
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Auckland's CRL gets put through its paces in first weekday rush-hour | Stuff.co.nz
YouTube video by Stuff
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mikael @nhikael.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"we're now on the same stage as other world players, the likes of london, or sydney"
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CRL First Train
YouTube video by Auckland Transport
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