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Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/brazil-china-megarailway-raises-deforestation-warnings-in-the-amazon/

Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon
From Lucas do Rio Verde, a major agricultural hub in the state of Mato Grosso, the railway would be built from scratch, advancing into the Amazon’s Arc of Deforestation.

Did a trip to admire the ”Prague Semmering” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smíchov–Hostivice_railway_line from the ground, a regional railway line with impressive curved viaducts to manage the height difference up to the hills above Smíchov station and the pla…

Smíchov–Hostivice railway line - Wikipedia

Hoogste spoorbrug geopend.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/6/6/worlds-tallest-railway-bridge-links-kashmir-valley-to-india#flips-6373957241112:0

World’s tallest railway bridge links Kashmir Valley to India
India’s PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the world’s tallest railway bridge in Jammu and Kashmir.

On my way to The Hague, to draw the red line for Dutch government with respect to Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza.
After last time's 100,000 participants, NS put in a lot of extra trains. My very early one already has a lot of passengers in red.
#rodelijn

Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/human-cost-of-working-on-the-railways-revealed-in-database/

Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database - The National Archives
A new public database listing records about railway accidents is being launched at The National Archives on Thursday 5 June to coincide with Volunteers Week. The Railway Work, Life & Death project makes accessible information about 4,500 railway staff killed or injured at work between 1911-1923. It has been made possible because volunteers at The […]

Me: I need to finally start reading #SkyScraperCity to know what's happening to the railway lines.
Me after reading SSC: I know a lot now. Especially I know there's nothing final to know.
#rail

Old Danish (?) railway cable mark on the ground at Rendsburg station. Or Prussian? #BahnBubble

What success looks like... "could not be found". This is the Austrian railway's WiFi login. I can use the Internet now though. :D

2 years later, my Freedom of Information Request shows a snapshot of Government ignoring Vancouver Islanders for 20 years.
On June 28, 2023 I submitted a Request for Information to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure of British Columbia for documents related to the Island Railway on Vancouver Island. It took two years to receive the response.
#VancouverIsland #BC #BCPoli #transportation #FOiA #Canada #CdnPoli
https://chrisalemany.ca/b/2tp

Since November 2024, Serbia had a sharp rise in attacks on journalists amid political unrest, including 23 physical assaults and 128 total attacks and threats (Attila Mong/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/alarming-escal

Alarming escalation in attacks on journalists amid political crisis in Serbia - Committee to Protect Journalists
Berlin, June 3, 2025—What journalists called a “witch hunt” atmosphere against government critics in Serbia one year ago has since escalated into a rise in attacks and threats against the press, following a deadly railway station collapse in November 2024 that triggered a widespread anti-corruption movement. Initial protests demanding accountability for the tragedy have turned...

Sensor Fusion for Track Geometry Monitoring: Integrating On-Board Data and Degradation Models via Kalman Filtering
Huy Truong-Ba, Jacky Chin, Michael E. Cholette, Pietro Borghesani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08028

Sensor Fusion for Track Geometry Monitoring: Integrating On-Board Data and Degradation Models via Kalman Filtering
Track geometry monitoring is essential for maintaining the safety and efficiency of railway operations. While Track Recording Cars (TRCs) provide accurate measurements of track geometry indicators, their limited availability and high operational costs restrict frequent monitoring across large rail networks. Recent advancements in on-board sensor systems installed on in-service trains offer a cost-effective alternative by enabling high-frequency, albeit less accurate, data collection. This study…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11389 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Resilience of LTE-A/5G-NR links Against Transient Electromagnetic Interference
This paper presents a comparative analysis of long-term evolution advanced (LTE-A) and fifth-generation new radio (5G-NR), focusing on the effects of Transient Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) caused by catenary-pantograph contact in a railway environment. We developed a software-defined radio (SDR)-based prototype for the performance evaluation of LTE-A and 5G-NR links in the presence of transient interference. The results show that both links experience considerable degradation due to inter…

Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel:
👉 a modest but statistically significant decline in the number of cars 🚗
👉 a substantial induced rail demand effect resulting from the travel time savings 🚅
Conclusion by the authors:
on such touristic routes, road and rail transport are not perfect substitutes
My personal conclusion:
👉 Modal shift needs push & pull measures
👉 Without other measures (pricing, reduced capacity, slowing), adding capacity only increas…

The Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel on Road Traffic: A Synthetic Control Approach
The opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2017, the longest railway tunnel in the world, marked a milestone in Swiss transport policy. The tunnel, a part of the New Rail Link through the Alps, serves as a key instrument of the so-called "modal shift policy," which aims to transfer transalpine freight traffic from road to rail. The reduction in travel time by train between northern and southern Switzerland raised expectations that a substantial share of tourist-oriented passenger traffic would …

Looks like for the first day of summer vintage streetcars we've got the nice open air Melbourne car. https://streetcar.live/

Market Street Railway's Real-Time Streetcar Guide
With this live, interactive map, track San Francisco's vintage streetcars and find them near you.

Eurochem, Zug, Switzerland
Reuters identified five chemical companies, in which five Western-sanctioned billionaires hold stakes, that provided more than 75% of the key chemicals shipped by rail to some of Russia's largest explosives factories from the start of the war until September this year, according to the railway data.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-billionaires-whose-chemical-factories-fuel-russias-war-machine-2024-12-30/

Constant-Factor Algorithms for Revenue Management with Consecutive Stays
Ming Hu, Tongwen Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00909 https://

Constant-Factor Algorithms for Revenue Management with Consecutive Stays
We study network revenue management problems motivated by applications such as railway ticket sales and hotel room bookings. Request types that require a resource for consecutive stays sequentially arrive with known arrival probabilities. We investigate two scenarios: the reject-or-accept scenario, where the request can be fulfilled by any available resource, and the choice-based scenario, which generalizes the former by incorporating customer preferences through basic attraction models. We dev…

The Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel on Road Traffic: A Synthetic Control Approach
Hannes Wallimann, Widar von Arx, Ann Hesse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21129

The Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel on Road Traffic: A Synthetic Control Approach
The opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2017, the longest railway tunnel in the world, marked a milestone in Swiss transport policy. The tunnel, a part of the New Rail Link through the Alps, serves as a key instrument of the so-called "modal shift policy," which aims to transfer transalpine freight traffic from road to rail. The reduction in travel time by train between northern and southern Switzerland raised expectations that a substantial share of tourist-oriented passenger traffic would …

Hey Vancouver Island folks... thinking back to when the E&N railway court decision was made that had the Sna-naw-as First Nation take back the land after the Provincial and Federal governments did not commit to restoring rail service:
.... do you remember any reporting at the time that indicated whether the province or federal governments were in discussions on the issue?
Inquiring minds....
#Rail #Canada #BC #Rail #EN #IslandCorridor

I am willing to be pleasantly surprised, but... when all I see from these "major projects" is oil and gas and other 20th century backwards nonsense, I can't help but be pessimistic.
Ironically, a real "nation building" project that would be a huge benefit to Canadians would be more akin to something from the 19th century: Standing up a true public railway corporation and rebuilding a high speed electrified rail network from sea to sea to sea that could reduce transportation costs and increase flexibility and convenience for millions of Canadians and businesses including in remote communities.
But our current leadership is too beholden to existing capitalist interests and status quo business to be that bold. And they're positively allergic to anything done purely in the public interest. How dare we not include some profiteering private corporation… /sarc
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #NaitonBuilding #Transportation #rail
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/premiers-meeting-prime-minister-carney-major-projects-1.7549577