Welcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread!

[piiiepsbrummm@chaos.social]

@jon Best wishes for the project from Germany!

[dagger@chaos.social]

@jon Looks like a nice adventure.
Wishing you a very pleasant trip!

[jon@gruene.social]

Here's the #LongestTrainEU music track for Kemijärvi – Kemi

Found thanks to this post:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h3nidwinjauzechkk5o5ldi5/post/3mtyl7liprc2d

Vicky Rosti - Menolippu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji1uFe0ma5Y

Full playlist on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfeggpU3vqA

[jon@gruene.social]

Here's the whole playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfeggpU3vqA

[mkoek@mastodon.nl]

@jon good job including Norway and the UK on that map

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@jon do you have a tracker or anything we can use to follow live progress?

[jon@gruene.social]

@quixoticgeek https://nextcloud.jonworth.eu/apps/phonetrack/publicSessionWatch/d732d5205c5cb742db60e6b38375528c

Currently a long stop at Rovaniemi

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@jon do you get to see the steam loco out front ?

[jon@gruene.social]

@quixoticgeek From afar, yes. But we stayed on board, chatting to people in the dining car!

[tml@mementomori.social]

@jon And a note to random reader: Yes, that is a quite slow average speed. But this is a night train. It is in no hurry. Also, car carrier wagons are attached in Rovaniemi, and ample time is allocated for that.

[jon@gruene.social]

@tml Right, totally. They do not try to rush those shunting manoeuvres!

[annehargreaves@ioc.exchange]

@jon Bon voyage!

[tml@mementomori.social]

@jon At least in the Helsinki end apparently a single person handles it all: Drives the remote controlled locomotive and performs the actual coupling. Must have required some long and tedious negotiations (in a sauna, haha?) with the unions for this to be acceptable…

[carstenraddatz@pixelfed.automat.click]

Safe travels!

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@jon Safe travels!

We’re all out here, rooting (routing?) for you.

[jon@gruene.social]

Hmmm 🤨

The live tracking thinks I have barely left Rovaniemi

But I most definitely have, and am two thirds of the way to Kemi

I simply cannot get any decent GPS signal here, even between carriages

[oskarimkeller@fnordon.de]

@jon

Have a good trip!

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@jon Maybe next time you could use live data from operators retrieving your train numbers to more reliably update the pin across your ..checks notes.. 7 countries travelled

(Please don’t kill me I promise I won’t suggest this again.)

[thisislieven@c.im]

@jon I think you've derailed, Jon.

[jon@gruene.social]

Can some Finn please explain this road sign seen in Kemijärvi earlier?

Is it "you will only hit elk on the roads in half of Finland"? Is there some elk wall across the middle of the country?

EDIT: OK, it's a reindeer herding area

But I have questions!

The antlers on that sign are wrong.

And given I was a LONG way into the area, why do I need the map?