that feel when ill never get to be a freighthopper :sadness:
TFW no future being a scabby dude who plays armonica. Wait, I do can be that!
i mean like, i guess i could still technically hop a train, but options are pretty limited, and the places they go arnt exactly bustling with opportunities for me as a transient worker
kinda not really self doxxing a teensy bit here but watching the parts in Eastern Washington is hilarious to me because I know exactly where those places are, I could point em out on a map. Weird because it's one of those areas in the US that isn't ever really mentioned or seen by most
Yeah, Spokane has some history with the aryan nation and the northwest territorial imperative. SE Washington is the middle of fuckin nowhere which has it's pros and cons
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a map is worth a thousand pictures.
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places
Worn out faaaaaaaccccceees
At least where I'm at the rail lines were turned into bike trails that you use to commute from the suburbs into the city or around the city. Or travel to different parts of the state even. Or for exercise of course. I mean it's something right?
More like I leave it open in case I'm wrong and someone can easily correct me and I can avoid confrontation lololol I enjoy the rail trails though, I can ride all over the place without dealing with c*rs. I just didn't know if I was being a lib
I guess some rails really got to go and luckly they are converted into looong parks. My dream is for the intracity trains near my house to be transformed into subways and the rails become a big long park.
Same where I'm from. They're not bad, in fact the few by where I grew up are pretty nice biking and hiking. But say, maybe instead they put electric light rail up instead, suddenly I could commute around the metro area significantly easier 🤷♀️
That's what they're doing by me actually and keeping the bike trail. Best part is that it pissed off the suburbs because of muh crime statistics
Turning old rail lines into hike and bike trails is marginally better than turning them into fucking tollways (Westpark Tollway, eat my ass).
But it's just another shade of liberalism's "Better Things Aren't Profitable".
Almost as if the building of the railroads themselves was a vast ponzi scheme designed to enrich capitalists. :soviet-hmm:
I’m not entirely sure if it has to do anything with this map but there were railroad tycoons back in the 1800s
It's not a specialty of mine, but in the same way that a lot of specific financial instruments were invented in Italy in the 1400-1600s, a lot about what we understand and experience as Capitalism in America goes very much back to the railroads. Hopefully #Traingang can drop some more recent book recommends.
i want to un this. i want to not this and make it no longer be anymore.
We definitely need more trains but these are good hiking trails now, especially the Hiawatha in Montana
Bruh that used to be an electrified main line
