allen
Hello, my name’s Allen. I’m here to share my various train photos, news, and advocacy.
Focused mainly on British Columbia and Ontario, Washington and Oregon states but sometimes I will post a couple other adventures from where I’ve gone!
My original photos may be used under the terms of the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license. Feel free to send a message for other uses or any questions. I can speak and write terrible-quality French (français) and mediocre Japanese (日本語).
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City Life@beehaw.org•First time I've seen the pedestrian crossing button pointing downward
2·4 months ago@Multiplexer
Normally, it points left or right to indicate the direction of crossing.
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News@lemmy.world•Air Canada union says flight attendants will continue strike, defy government
12·4 months ago@HellsBelle
This is the right move. Imagine if politicians were paid only for the time they were at their seat.Railroad unions have followed the process by the book, and there’s still no resolution after being in court for a year now:
https://tcrcplbo.ca/section-107-challenges/
Being forced to go back to a job under-compensated is an untenable situation here. Something needed to be done lest we lose our right to collective labour action.
The RailDriver train simulator controller only has official Windows support.
After reading the technical documentation from the makers, I cobbled together a “driver” that reads input messages then puts it out as a virtual device like an xbox controller.
With two translation layers, and with calibration required every time, I am able to play TrainSimWorld with it, because out of the box it can’t seem to recognize it.
allen@rail.chatto
Canada@lemmy.ca•American doctors look to relocate to Canada to avoid the Trump administration
19·7 months agoIf you’re one of the doctors wanting to move to Canada and work, Todd Maffin (@tod) is looking to help you. He’s preparing quite a number of resources to save you from figuring out the whole convulted process yourself!









@Multiplexer That’s correct. It’s on a busy bridge for automobile traffic, so the light does not change until the cyclist or pedestrian buttons are pressed.