Daily Archives: January 19, 2024

Friday Reads – 19 January 2024

• A ride on Glasgow’s new Subway trains (BusAndTrainUser) • Car sales: we’ve hit a grim milestone not seen since 1981 (Slate) • How Montreal’s New Rapid Transit Line Saved Millions Per Mile (Bloomberg) • Japan to postpone plan to extend Hokkaido Shinkansen Line by 2031 (The Japan Times) • The five-minute city is a new bottom-up model taking over…

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Not The Best Day Ever

It Went Something Like This … The Story So Far … fbb has been trying to get an electric point working in the tunnel (but sort-of accessible) allowing trains to enter/leave a single track storage siding with scenery cantilevered above. To make the work easier (???) the whole section of track is on a sub-baseboard of ply so that the track…

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