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Jason Stiff

It's a Montana Monday, and nothing gives me more trust issues than AI and its nonsense. This "Living in Montana" Facebook talks about Route 50 going through Montana (it goes through NV, UT & CO among many others). I labeled those cities where they ACTUALLY belong, too. 😑🙄😄

#Montana#Kalispell#Helena
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Panethos

America’s loneliest Amtrak stations in FY 2023

Listed below are the 15 loneliest Amtrak stations across the country based on their number of passengers for fiscal year 2023. Nearly all of the places listed are in rural areas. The largest city on the list is New Iberia, Louisiana with just over 27,000 residents in 2023. Indiana and West Virginia both have three stations on the list while Montana and Louisiana have two each.

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Most striking about this data, is that nearly half (47 percent) of the loneliest stations are along one Amtrak corridor — the Cardinal, which is a scenic arcing rail route which runs between Chicago-Indy-Cincinnati-Charlottesville-Washington DC-New York City! Why this is beyond the line traveling through many rural areas in the Appalachian Mountains and it being rather circuitous compared to more direct Chicago to New York rail routes is unclear.

The Cardinal Amtrak rail corridor – Source: amtrak.com

Somewhat surprising are the numbers from Dyer, Indiana as well as Browning and Essex, Montana. Dyer is a suburb of Chicago, while Browning and Essex are located close to Glacier National Park. From the data, it appears most visitors to Glacier utilize the East and West Park Stations instead of nearby towns.

One town whose numbers are currently low, but likely had much highest tallies in the past is Rensselaer, Indiana. The town is home to the reopened St. Josephs College and once home of the Chicago Bears Training Camp. St. Joseph College closed down between 2017 and 2021 and is still rebuilding its academic programs. Meanwhile the Chicago Bears held their training camp at St. Joseph’s College from 1944 to 1974.

As the popularity of rail travel increases, hopefully additional passengers will choose to ride Amtrak to/from these lonelier stations. Regardless, for some of these towns, the train is the only intercity passenger service they have. For example, none of the three towns in West Virginia have current bus service from Trailways or Greyhound, nor do Browning and Essex in Montana. The same is true for Connersville, Schriever, Wishram, and Arcadia. That accounts for 60 percent of the list. As a result, the Amtrak provides a vital link for residents and businesses of these communities.

Peace!

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  1. Montgomery, West Virginia = 266 passengers

2. Alderson, West Virginia = 399 passengers

3. Thurmond, West Virginia = 466 passengers

4. Rensselaer, Indiana = 509 passengers

5. Connersville, Indiana = 528 passengers

6. Lordsburg, New Mexico = 688 passengers

7. South Shore, Kentucky = 870 passengers

8. Schriever, Louisiana = 912 passengers

9. Browning, Montana = 935 passengers

10. Dyer, Indiana = 989 passengers

11. Essex, Montana = 1,009 passengers

12. Wishram, Washington = 1,072 passengers

13. New Iberia, Louisiana = 1,078 passengers

14. Lamar, Colorado = 1,138 passengers

15. Arcadia, Missouri = 1,228 passengers

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#AMTRAK#bus#cities
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blog.TO

Destroyed Ontario ghost town was almost a historic catastrophe
Once a quaint French Ontarian farming village nestled along the South Nation River, Lemieux, Ontario, is now nothing more than a distant memory.Formerly located just an hour's drive east of Ottawa, the town's origins can be traced back to the mid-1850s, when it began as a service centre for ...
#history #geography #geology #disaster #Ontario #Lemieux
blogto.com/city/2025/04/histor

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As sea levels rise, living forests can become salinated. Sometimes they turn to mudflats with minimal plant life, and sometimes invasive flora species take over. But sometimes they turn to marshland, the best possible outcome as marsh plants can do some of the work of forests, such as buffering against storms and storing carbon. @KnowableMag reports on the expansion of these “ghost forests,” the near-impossibility of slowing the trend, and what coastal transition might look like.

knowablemagazine.org/content/a

#ClimateChange #Sea #CoastalGeography #Geography #Science #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

9/15

Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsGhost forests are growing as sea levels riseAs trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in — for better or worse, scientists are learning
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Merlin Gillard 🚋😷

Now the Netherlands are also cutting in funding for #academia, which notably translates in the planned closing of the #EarthSciences department at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Because what we really need now is less research in physical #geography, climatology, geology, glaciology...
delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/cl
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#VU

Het gebouw van Civiele Techniek en Geowetenschappen, afdeling Geowetenschappen
Delta · ‘Closing VU earth sciences sends exactly the wrong message’ - DeltaThe planned closure of the VU Department of Earth Sciences is disastrous for geoscience research and education. That is what TU Delft professors Timo Heimovaara and Sebastian Geiger write in this solidarity statement on behalf of their Department of Geosciences and Engineering.
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Cuadro Físico Meteoro y Geológico de la Tierra y Reloj Cosmográfico. (Physical, Meteorological, and Geological [1879] Chart of the Earth and Cosmographic Clock.)
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davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/d <-- shared David Rumsey Map Collection holding, and download the high resolution digital copy of the map…
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[the level of detail - with the ballon and other cartographic affectations…]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #maps #oldmaps #global #world #geography #geology #flora #fauna #terrestrial #FridayFeeling #gischat #Spain #rivers #mountains #humanity #globe #earth
@DavidRumseyMapCenter

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ErNandy

More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN. Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced.

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UNBy Damian Carrington
#ActOnClimate#ClimateChange#geography
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 **Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years**

“_Wetter conditions likely facilitated mammalian dispersals between Africa and Eurasia, with Arabia acting as a key crossroads for continental-scale biogeographic exchanges._”

Markowska, M., Vonhof, H.B., Groucutt, H.S. et al. Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-088.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Geography #Arabia #Climate #Academia #Academic @geography

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