https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/railway/ Recent content in Railway on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-09-23-railway-stack-osrd-openrailwaymap-open-rails/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-09-23-railway-stack-osrd-openrailwaymap-open-rails/ <p>Railway engineering has one of the worst open-source toolchains of any infrastructure discipline. Signalling layouts live in proprietary CAD formats, capacity studies are done in vendor software that costs more per seat than a car, and the schedule data your national operator publishes is a PDF. The result is that a small but genuinely useful stack of open tools goes almost completely unnoticed outside a handful of national railway labs.</p>