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   Gateway of Last Resort (wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 07:19:58 JST Gateway of Last Resort

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   • codl

   @codl I mean boston's are also /fairly/ plain. and nyc does have elevated rail in a lot of brooklyn and queens, and especially in LIC it's pretty dense

   idk about DC

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     codl (codl@chitter.xyz)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 07:20:00 JST codl

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     @wxcafe honestly the only other city i can think of with some elevated rail and plain steel cars is nyc and my impression is theres no elevated rail there anywhere with that kind of density. i could be wrong though

     i guess theres also dc but same thing there and also those trains have a recognizable funky shape

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     Gateway of Last Resort (wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 07:20:01 JST Gateway of Last Resort

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     @codl mmh without the CTA thing a bunch of cities in the US to be fair

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     codl (codl@chitter.xyz)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 07:20:02 JST codl

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     in fairness it wasnt very hard, there were an abundance of clues. how many places have ugly ass plain steel elevated rail, and also are known for being cold in the winter, and also have a michigan avenue. also if i had been paying attention i would have recognized the cta logo on the buses

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     codl (codl@chitter.xyz)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 07:20:03 JST codl

     i should be sleeping but instead im hyperfocusing on this little stock footage clip https://youtu.be/HnMuNCl7tZ8?t=1360 because when i saw it i was like "something is fake. the train looks like a cardboard cutout. the buses look fake too"

     anyway after like half an hour i havent been able to find any conclusive evidence that anything here is fake and most likely it's just an artifact of narrow field of view making everything look flat. otoh i did manage to find the location of the shot and i'm pretty happy about that. it's in chicago, at the crossing between michigan ave and washington st, facing west, probably shot from this uh, balcony type thing. i dont know what to call it https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.883229&mlon=-87.623415#map=19/41.883229/-87.623415

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