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About MettaTrained

Username reflects my current interests: Trains, getting people to use more transit, train travel, and metta--referring to a buddhist practice.

BART Trivia

I found out that the reason BART has the non-standard guage is because back when BART was first being conceived, Southern Pacific didn’t want BART competing with them for freight business, so they got BART to go with the 5 … Continue reading

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