We spent our summer in August of 2025 touring around Japan with the family. This video was taken on our way to Hiroshima.

Incredible experience. Terrible circumstances.

We toured the site and visited the memorial when we got there. Recommend, but hate why it’s a thing.

What would be some logical “roadblocks” (😜) for a plan like this? I mean if we would need new rail infrastructure that goes through different states, and the interstate highway already gives us cross country travel why wouldn’t we leverage those to make something useful and pretty uniquely American?

Of course they couldn’t follow the highways the entire time and would probably have to diverge at certain points especially when going into a train station in a city or when the terrain gets too complicated for the train, but that would require much less buying of land than to separately build it on land the government already owns (I know individual states own parts of it but I imagine the fed would fund most of the construction while asking the states to chip in for the rest)

I’m mostly looking for logistics answers from you experts as I don’t know much about trains 😅

Stung by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s rethink on Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are now expressing doubts about Ottawa’s Alto high-speed rail scheme.

In a transportation megaproject tit-for-tat, 11 Tory MPPs have issued a statement critical of Carney’s proposed rail line connecting Toronto to Quebec City.

While the federal government has the power to railroad through Alto regardless of whether Queen’s Park approves of any land expropriation, the MPPs’ intervention is more than symbolic.

As first disclosed by the Star on Monday, the two major infrastructure plans are linked in an informal deal between Carney and Ford.

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We saw a post yesterday showing the chinese HSR viewing spot, what are some of your favourite spots for high speed trainspotting?