I can see my train from here
Man, if only Canada could even have what Germany does in the middle of the night.
yeah but also
You can kind of see how much of a choke point Cologne is there. The line between it and Düsseldorf is in the middle of a major upgrade as well which adds to the chaos. 30 years of neoliberal underinvestment coming home to roost.
Do i get this right: It’s just the straight lines between start and destination station and not the actual physical routes?
Absolutely unwatchable.
Mesmerizing, but the question is, were they all on time?
I’d love a series of live versions of this and other countries that I can make my background
Not a live version, but it comes from here: https://chillchamp1.github.io/github.io
It has different countries and you might be able to somehow set it as a wallpaper - mind you, it’s fairly resource heavy, so possibly not the best idea.
Oh thank you, this is fun! Look at Tokyo! https://chillchamp1.github.io/github.io/#tokyo
When they’re actually running, yes 😅
It’s kind of insane how vast the world, and everything humans have built on it so far is.
Take those ~1800 trains running simultaneously in the middle of the day in Germany. Each one weighs like dozens of tons and carries up to hundreds of passengers.
Now multiply that several times for all the trains running simultaneously in the middle of the day in all of Europe.
Then look at countries like Russia or China that completely dwarf Europe when it comes to [actively used] rail networks.
The US alone has 220 thousand kilometers of railroads. That’s more than half of the distance from Earth to the Moon. Add China’s 160 thousand and it’d be enough to take a train all the way to the Moon.
And this is only trains.
Maybe it’s just me, but… where did all of that come from? Absolutely stunning.
