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Written by Waxy.org on 2025-01-23 at 20:48

trains.fyi: a live, real-time map of passenger trains in North America https://trains.fyi/

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Written by Stefan Bohacek on 2025-01-23 at 20:51

@waxy Love the site, but you really need an ad-blocker enabled to enjoy it.

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Written by Waxy.org on 2025-01-23 at 21:19

@stefan Yikes, you’re right. I have ad blockers on mobile/desktop so didn’t see how bad it was.

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Written by Stefan Bohacek on 2025-01-23 at 21:30

@waxy Yeah, I don't use them on my phone, really should finally look into it.

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Written by Olivier :apple_old_logo: on 2025-01-23 at 21:06

@jerome it’s funny how they just scrape the feed from VIA’s own tracker

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Written by Jérôme on 2025-01-23 at 21:50

@olivier I was actually curious how they got the VIA data. So it’s scraping? There’s no public API?

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Written by Olivier :apple_old_logo: on 2025-01-23 at 21:58

@jerome scraping in the sense of grabbing a JSON which is public

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Written by Daniel Carkner🥀 on 2025-01-23 at 23:35

@waxy my functionally train-free province looking so sad on this map 😑

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Written by Aaron on 2025-01-24 at 01:57

@waxy Excellent start. I want this for freight trains too.

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