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Super cool! I love this. Makes me yearn for a day when this map is way more full of activity.

Just a little feedback: the color for Amtrak and for Chicago's Metra trains are so similar it's hard to see at a glance where the Amtrak runs are amongst the many Metras that are out at a given time. Would be awesome to differentiate those marker colors a bit more.

Very cool! Didn't know this was even technically possible with the available data feeds. Great work!

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this bugged me too. I tried to keep the colours respective to the company logos. Any other recommendations for a metra colour?

Good point. Meta's brand identity is pretty much the blue you picked. I see your marker color is exactly the hex value for blue that's on most of their website.

I think you could go a little lighter, pretty sure the actual trains have a lighter more saturated blue on them. Something closer to the blue you're using for the Mass Bay Trans Authority would be fine, and there's no overlap in service areas to make that confusing.

Or maybe different marker size/shape for regional vs national trains.

Also saw the South Shore Line is there now. Nice!

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