Canada's Next Chapter in Trans-Continental Rail
Canada finally bought a new continental train, what does it look like and will it last as long as our iconic Budd Rail cars?
October 05, 2026 ◦ 20 minute ◦
View by: Tags The first episode of Elsewhere, Slowly, for anyone who’d rather read: why the show exists, and how a stubborn, technical kid who was rarely told why grew into someone who can kneel beside a patch of moss and feel something close to reverence. Apple once shipped a server a 12 year old could run. I rebuilt it in a VM to find out whether it still holds up in 2026, and what can be learned by examining the past. Climbing the ghost of a glacier in the Ogilvies, and coming back down faster than the mountain would like. A stolen glacier, a plum going soft, and a day in Dawson City that would not hold still. An answer to why I am here, why any of it matters, and why I intend to stick around, arrived at without the benefit of a supercomputer the size of a small planet. Twelve weeks out from the vote, and the words on the masthead matter less than the person on the ballot. Trains, now planes, soon enough my blog may even write about automobiles. Every argument against AI I hear today is one I heard against the cloud fifteen years ago, and the outcome of that earlier argument is not a hopeful precedent. A poem for the gossamer-winged butterflies of northern BC, and what such a small thing has to offer such a hard country. The Why
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