Proto-Future 16: Interview with Lucid Stew on High Speed Rail Politics

A discussion on Low, Higher, and High Speed Rail, infrastructure politics, and Lucid Stew's history and growth as a creator.

Check out Lucid Stew’s channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@LucidStew

Stew’s original two videos on CAHSR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBjsW19jak8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG_DLyxQP14

Stew’s recent video on CAHSR between LA and Orange County: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7wZs5-r-VI

Stew’s old video on Chicago to Detroit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzdKDIrBeAM

Stew’s recent video on Lake Shore Limited HSR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cQbqCrVTig

Stew’s older video on Pennsylvania HSR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFq1zwuJq8o&t=10s

Please consider donating at https://www.patreon.com/bgtmrring

Proto-Future 15: How to Ride Amtrak Part 2: Reserving and Riding a Train

Part 2 of how to ride Amtrak, finding a train, understanding service classes, booking a ticket, waiting at the station, and the onboard experience, recorded from the Coast Starlight.

Proto-Future 14: Interview with Tyler Trahan Part 1, Urbanism, Train Clubs, Railroad Museums, and Equity

Part 1 of an interview with modeler savant, Tyler Trahan, covering his history in model railroading, museum, and steam railroading, and his thoughts on manifestos, passenger trains, virtual modeling, club inclusivity, and public outreach.

Proto-Future 13: How to Ride Amtrak Part 1: The Entire Timetable

Part 1 of how to ride Amtrak, giving a brief history and describing the destinations and operations of every single route on the timetable, recorded onboard the Sunset Limited.

Proto-Future 10: Introducing the Centre County Highway Revolt

In this episode, I describe a project I've been working on with some friends to end car-dependency all across America, not just in cities, and details the many reasons why cars are always harmful to the environment, our health, and our economic prosperity.

The Centre County Highway Revolt is a citizen-led organization opposing any new automobile spending in Pennsylvania, and instead promotes building a fast, frequent, regional rail system out of existing, government-owned infrastructure for intercity travel, daily car-free commuting, and transit accessible nature.

Learn more at https://www.centrecountyhighwayrevolt.org

Proto-Future 9: GAP Pilot, Part 1

The first part of a pilot episode I recorded, testing out the concept of PFP before I released the Manifesto, where I Amtraked from Connellsville to Pittsburgh, explored Pittsburgh, and biked back.

A reminder to support CAN: https://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org

Proto-Future 6: It's up to us now

This episode addresses the elephant in the room: that America is a now a fascist, dying country. What do we do now, and how do we fight back against the racist conservative idiots that are stealing our freedoms?

Please, please donate to:

The Freedom from Religion Foundation

Nova Ukraine

Anera

Black Lives Matter

The Rail Passengers Association

The High Speed Rail Alliance

The Sierra Club

The Parking Reform Network

Proto-Future 5, Part 1: Inaugural Borealis, Day 1 – Keystone, SEPTA, Airport Philosophy, and the Metric System for Sounds

This episode is the first in a four-part series detailing my trip to ride the inaugural Borealis between the Twin Cities and Chicago. In it, I motorcycle to Harrisburg, ride the Keystone to Philadelphia, struggle with SEPTA to the Airport, speedrun both the PHL and MSP airports, and give a preliminary exploration of Minneapolis, philosophizing extensively along the way.

Proto-Future 4: G4 Buffet: Lewistown, Layout Diary 1, and the Grocery Store

This nontraditional episode gives you three vignettes on Amtrak and the podcast, my layout and its construction, and bicycling infrastructure and car-dependency, as well as helping me catch up on scripts and test out field recording.

Proto-Future Prologue 3: Rochester, MN

An alt-history of the Las Vegas Talgo as if it was purchased by MNDOT and used to start the Northern Lights Express 25 years ahead of schedule.

This episode recounts impressionable articles, near-future Amtrak routes, and how I went from modeling the 1890s On30 and choosing a diesel locomotive just for fun to completely abandoning the On30 layout and starting over to make a new layout based on a concept for regional transportation in a state which I've never lived in and barely visited.