nat makhijani

@multipleunit.bsky.social

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keep the trains moving 🚂👩‍🔧🚲❤️🏳️‍🌈 • she/her • subways stuff at mta • nat.makhijani.us

highlighted picture of equipment rack. it has a screen? and some white green red and yellow buttons
Skyline of Midtown Manhattan from a roof in western Queens
me smiling while riding my bike. i’m wearing a cutoff tshirt and a muni bus stop hat
us going nuts at the world’s borough bookstore as the knicks win
Anyway, the Giants lost and I don’t care. Tonight I’m thinking about Kyle Harrison, who was plastered across every Pride Night ad a year ago, grinning like a kid in a candy store while showing off his Pride Night bucket hat. Tonight I’m thinking about Matt Cain, good ol’ country boy that he was, popping up on a Giants PSA to tell fans that baseball is for everyone. Tonight I’m thinking about Solomon Bates, the Giants pitching prospect who came out as gay shortly after his Minor League career came to an end. I’m thinking of the closeted professional baseball players across the Majors and Minors, each of whom has surely spent countless hours wondering if their teammates would accept them.
two dogs neatly laying in a line in the ground in front of a long runner rug
order receipt email for the elon sticker
screenshot from plexamp showing 1,562 albums
“HETCH HETCHY POWER” manhole cover
my website, but the first section “writing” has its grid all out of whack
canelo, a cinnamon colored american village dog curled up on the couch next to cookie, a small pembroke corgi, next to me, human. the dogs are both very sleepy, i’m sort of awake
me and cookie
An updated screenshot of my website, with new tagline type things under headers on the home page and a fun old timey pointing icon
me in the barcode scanner app at the data vandals party in the subway
me pointing out the window of an LIRR M9. matt took this photo
hotdog orientation photo taken from the platform at 74 st on the 7 train. a train approaches in the leftmost track, behind it is the skyline of midtown manhattan in front of a beautiful, orange beginning of sunset. a plane flies over buildings to the right. a home signal on the middle track in the foreground shows red over red
little raccoon climbing down the stairs of my fire escape
Mastodon post from @abbyfluoroethane@tech.lgbt: “wat bedoel je nou Muni heeft ook competitieve cuck-stoelen” There is a photo taken looking forward from the back of a Muni bus
Selfie of me grinning in a room with a shelf, bed, lamp and boxes. The walls are orange and yellow
Screenshot of calendar showing spectrum bill and payday
Q. What did you do while you were in New York for EJA [a Penn Central subsidiary]? A. General Lassiter said I could be of great, great service to him if I would help in the social life of [Penn Central officers] General Hodge and Dave Bevan, since he [Lassiter] was under a lot of pressure from them due to the company having finan- cial problems . . . . Q. Did you do any of this .. . ? A. Yes On one occasion General Hodge asked if I knew of any young ladies who would go on a business trip to Europe that he was taking with General Lassiter
selfie of me grinning and pointing to an empire bin. welcome to the 20th century, new york
"Using significant energy: Maps"
A station in a trench. Leaves are green and it’s sunny out. Two tracks with third rail run down the center of the shot
sign in the subway: ESCALATOR OPERATION NYCT DOES NOT OPERATE THIS ESCALATOR WHEN OUT OF SERVICE CALL BOSTON PROPERTIES AT (212) 308-6661 MTA New York City Transit. Somebody has scrawled “Fuck Boston!” under the phone number
Shinkansen “Dr Yellow”, soon to be retired
Three Acela trains in Penn Station. Nobody is on the platforms. The front two are legacy sets, and the rear is Next Gen
a lone metra gallery car at la salle
selfie of me with my radio clipped on my backpack. a grey scrunchie is wrapped around the antenna
screenshot of andrew lynch’s track maps of nyc, focusing on the island center island platform layouts at 34 st / 7 av and 34 st / 8 av.
water channel thing made of wood elevated over river
Selfie of me (well, my legs and torso) setting on the seats on top of the vehicle on board controller cabinet (CBTC equipment) in a Muni train
plaque on superliner signature wood veneer reading “The Eighty Express Railcar / built 1946 / in continuous operation/ upgraded with stories”
Puppy paw on the cancel deployment button on my laptop
tom (of tom and jerry) with clips holding his eyes open
A north-facing view of the San Francisco skyline from Bernal Hill, dappled with whispy splotchy clouds
The back of the Bernal rock, where “We love you Amy ❤️” has been painted
Cookie, a corgi pup, on her back with her feet out getting belly scratches
Amy holding a six year old me. We’re both smiling and I’m sheepishly kissing her cheek
Screenshot of Netflix's Remind Me button on a show page
sandwich and avocado on plate
Google questions: Is $100,000 enough to live in Boston? What is a must eat in Boston?
A bunch of smiling people around Scott Weiner awkwardly standing in the center at MTC
Me holding up a burrito at the bus stop in the mission
Menu prices at a Mexican restaurant. Burritos range from $10.25 to $12.90 (and $14.45 for shrimp)
A: R. Swindell - Not unless it falls over. Our present policy developed twenty years ago when we cleaned chairs in the subway for the last time. One of the reasons we quit was not because we weren't sure we were doing any good, but people were complaining because the fellows would sit on the third rail and take a shoeshine rag and clean the rail between their feet. We just stopped, and haven't cleaned an insulator since. I don't think you have to, with porcelain insulators; they don't usually arc. If they get excessively dirty, they'll arc across and clean themselves, and you're back in business.
R. Ganeriwal - One area of general concern that has not been raised here is the so-called stray voltages. Transit systems that are being designed, or are like BART, have their running rails insulated from ground. The stray voltages which appear from running rail to ground will go up if you space the substations farther apart. I would like to ask this question of BART. With -- (unclear) located, do you use composite rail and space the substations farther apart, and if so how do you handle the stray voltages? H. Fleige - Well, you're right. The longer the distance between substations, the higher the potential difference between the running rail and ground. I think that that problem has to be solved differently than by spacing the substations closer. I think that it would be very uneconomical to do that. If there is a possibility of spacing substations farther apart, I don't think we should be discouraged by the fact that it also raises the stray voltage between running rail and ground. That problem has to be dealt with differently.
A clean third rail insulator
rolling hills covered in multicolored houses in san francisco’s sunset district. the marin headlands are visible in the background. there are trees and the houses are dappled with sun. it’s golden hour
The replied to skeet above a skeet about pfizer's lyme disease preventing vaccine being successful
a tick with a speech bubble
SF City Football Club rainbow jersey on a model on the streetcar
My final hell gate march madness of nyc hot takes 2026 bracket. The winner is replacing transplant with "fellow new yorker"
"All gambling should be made illegal, including sports betting and prediction markets, except in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Times Square" vs "The word 'transplant' should become literally unspeakable, magically replaced on your tongue by 'fellow new yorker'"
a linksys router with a speech bubble pointing down
A Linksys router with a speech bubble
sec transpo duffy’s stupid “uhhh guys they’re running out of crayons” face
Image of Mayor Mamdani, Port Authority boss Katheryn Garcia, Gov Hochul and Sec Transportation Duffy walking side by side at LGA terminal B. Text over Mamdani, Garcia and Hochul says “had to be there”. Text over Duffy says “guy whose fault it is”.
two bikes leaned against a fence. in the background is the bay, eastern san francisco, and the golden gate bridge. thanks for letting me borrow your bike Ayla
A hunchbacked 60 foot articulated old muni bus in the yard at Islais Creek depot