Martin Gombert
@MartinMagla
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Public transit professional. Passionate about old trains, planes, and history in general.
Joined May 2013
California high speed project issues request for proposals for track construction
trains.com
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California High Speed Rail Authority this week issued a Request For Proposals for the contract to build track and related systems for the 119-mile first segment of the...
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Thankful for an account that posts pictures of people reading books on the Buenos Aires subway.
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Never assume that only leftists care about trains.
Due to flight delays and cancellations, I took the Amtrak train from DC to Georgia. The sweetest people run the train. And the morning views of my north Georgia mountains made me smile and warmed my heart.
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The Dodgers bullpen is at their best when they are watching the game from the bullpen.
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Perfect Tweet
Bout 250 Mexican kids in 10 years gonna have to explain why they named Shohei Rodriguez
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More taxes, less working hours and more regulations. Am I doing it right?
Europe now has 0 companies left in the global top 25. What needs to happen for that to change by 2030?
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Hunter Greene threw this 100.4 mph. Shohei Ohtani hit it out 117.7 mph. For the second straight postseason, Ohtani has the first big swing for the Dodgers. https://t.co/LwiplwCmUV
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Long overdue. It will take something like a decade, but better late than never.
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The last Boeing 747 to roll out of production line at Everett Factory.
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Safely on the NB train. Display time sign was off. Happy Holidays!🎄🎄🎄
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Vintage image from a world that doesn‘t exist anymore unknown source
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I guess cable cars can work in Mexico City but no Los Angeles. https://t.co/u6WPO4QXv2
bloomberg.com
The aerial vehicles have become transportation for some 80,000 people a day as the city seeks to rapidly expand the system.
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THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS ARE THE 2024 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS!
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"Our salmon have returned home." Indigenous activists spent decades campaigning for dams to be removed on the Klamath River. Now they are celebrating as salmon are heading upstream to spawn. Some fish have made it all the way to creeks in Oregon.
latimes.com
The removal of dams on the Klamath River has enabled salmon to swim far upstream to spawn. Wildlife officials have found salmon upstream in Oregon.
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Sandy Koufax famously didn’t pitch on Yom Kippur in 1965. But did he go to synagogue? That part is lore. I spoke to a man who swears he sat behind the Hall of Famer at services.
jta.org
We spoke to a man who swears he sat behind the legendary pitcher at Temple of Aaron in Minnesota.
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