Red line through Wrigleyville. (at 3639 Wrigley Rooftop)
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Why Are There Still So Many Train Stations Named Penn Station?
“They’re all named for the Pennsylvania Railroad,” says historian Albert Churella of Southern Polytechnic State University, in Georgia, and author of The Pennsylvania Railroad: Volume 1, Building an Empire, 1846–1917. “In small towns, people would not have said, the Pennsylvania Station. They would have just said, the railroad station, or the depot, or what have you. They probably wouldn’t have given it a formal name.”
Read more. [Images: Various]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/3cd13fe7e25161644c8875cacb8cc012/tumblr_mkp1slTeCa1qcokc4o1_500.png)
Why Are There Still So Many Train Stations Named Penn Station?
“They’re all named for the Pennsylvania Railroad,” says historian Albert Churella of Southern Polytechnic State University, in Georgia, and author of The Pennsylvania Railroad: Volume 1, Building an Empire, 1846–1917. “In small towns, people would not have said, the Pennsylvania Station. They would have just said, the railroad station, or the depot, or what have you. They probably wouldn’t have given it a formal name.”
Read more. [Images: Various]
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Vegetable market vendors pull back awnings and their produce off a railway track to allow a cross-country train to dissect through the middle of the town of Maeklong, in Samut Songkhram province, 37 miles west of Bangkok on August 16, 2012. The bustling market, in the middle of the town, has to scramble from the tracks eight times a day as trains pass.
[Credit : Chaiwat Subprasom / Reuters]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8utbx2Qxo1r44q44o1_500.jpg)
Vegetable market vendors pull back awnings and their produce off a railway track to allow a cross-country train to dissect through the middle of the town of Maeklong, in Samut Songkhram province, 37 miles west of Bangkok on August 16, 2012. The bustling market, in the middle of the town, has to scramble from the tracks eight times a day as trains pass.
[Credit : Chaiwat Subprasom / Reuters]
![This kind of thinking is needed to get DC’s Metrorail through its escalator problems.
caro:
kenyatta:
Dutch Railway Installs a Slide To Get To The Train
It’s officially called a ‘transfer accelerator’ by Dutch railway maintenance company ProRail, but everyone else would say it’s a slide. An awesome slide. Installed next to a stairway at the newly renovated railway station Overvecht in the city of Utrecht, the slide offers travellers the opportunity to quickly reach the railway tracks when they’re in a hurry.
Be sure to click through for the video
via The Pop-Up City
“[The designers] brilliantly foresaw that such a playful urban intervention can generate large-scale positive spin-off for a disadvantaged neighborhood like Overvecht, and that’s exactly what happened.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lokh384jHf1qz53j7o1_r1_500.jpg)
This kind of thinking is needed to get DC’s Metrorail through its escalator problems.
caro:
Dutch Railway Installs a Slide To Get To The Train
It’s officially called a ‘transfer accelerator’ by Dutch railway maintenance company ProRail, but everyone else would say it’s a slide. An awesome slide. Installed next to a stairway at the newly renovated railway station Overvecht in the city of Utrecht, the slide offers travellers the opportunity to quickly reach the railway tracks when they’re in a hurry.
Be sure to click through for the video
via The Pop-Up City
“[The designers] brilliantly foresaw that such a playful urban intervention can generate large-scale positive spin-off for a disadvantaged neighborhood like Overvecht, and that’s exactly what happened.”
There’s a metaphor in here somewhere.
MBTA train drives over fire on tracks
- A Green Line train drove over a small fire on the tracks Wednesday night on Beacon Street, according to a witness who snapped photographs of the incident.
Mad Men takes a leap into the future?
President Obama is having a little trouble selling America — especially Republicans — on his idea of connecting America by high-speed rail. Enter fictional ad men Pete Campbell and Harry Crane, of AMC’s “Mad Men.” If Draper approves, America might, too.
Among Moscow’s large population of homeless canines, a small minority who frequent or inhabit its metro have attracted international attention due to their having learned how to use the trains to commute to and from various locations.The dogs have learned to cross the street with pedestrians and have been observed obeying traffic lights.
Read more here.
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