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if-you-fan-a-fire · 3 years

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“Officials Charge Sabotage In Fatal Train Wreck,” Toronto Star. March 18, 1941. Page 3. ----- Scattered down the side of an embankment near Baden, Pa., lie wrecked cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Buckeye Limited, in which five persons died and 114 were injured. Officials of the line said there was ‘definite evidence of sabotage’ after the crack train struck a loosened rail in the thick of a snowstorm. They offered a $5,000 reward for conviction of the persons responsible. Of the 112 passengers and 11 crew members, only three emerged without injury.

#pennsylvania history #pennsylvania #derailment #train derailment #sabotage #snowstorm #train crash #express train #united states history #railway transportation #train journey

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its-where-the-wild-things-are · 8 months

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#direction #railway #public transportation #train

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dame-de-pique · 2 months

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Train on the Remutaka Range, 1925-1935

#unknown photographer #gelatin silver print #railway #railroad #rail transportation

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sprava-zeleznic · 2 months

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Railway ask game!

Favourite railway station?

Weird thing that happened to you on a train/on a train station?

Do you feel like railway and the tracks belong to the landscape or do you feel like they invade it, they are unnatural?

Do you have a favourite song about trains/which features trains? (If not, please listen to Plenty good room here)

Favourite railway company (other than Správa železnic. We know everybody loves us ofc)

Do you have a favourite locomotive/train type? If not, pick one and share a picture.

The most beautiful route you have taken so far (by train ofc)

Have you ever met friends with anyone on a train?

Delays, unexpected events and so on: complaining time! Tell us.

Your favourite train in fiction, if you have one. If you don't, do you remember any train from a book or a movie?

@zssk @ceske-drahy @regiojet @arriva-cr @mavcsoport @valtionrautatiet-official @flixbus-official @nederlandsespoorwegen @british-rail-official @british-rail @deutsche-bahn @zeleznice-slovenskej-republiky and other 🚂

#trains #transportation #train #vlak #vlaky #eisenbahn #railway #ask game #railways #junat

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zadokthepriest · 6 months

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Train passing through the night in Chongqing, China - Shenzhen Channel

#technology #cyberpunk #city #tech #scifi #glowy #neon #aesthetic #train #railway #public transportation #public transit #china #chongqing

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linka-r9-vysocina · 8 months

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some trains again, anyone?

shot in the Czech Republic with various cameras on various films

#trains #public transport #train #railway #rails #photography #film photography #analogue photography #czech trains #české dráhy #vlaky

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wikipediapictures · 4 months

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Escalator

#escalator #wikipedia #wikipedia pictures #umeda #osaka #japan #hankyū railway #public transportation #public transport #public transport system #public transit #transportation #railway station #railway #station #asia #mechanical engineering #mechanicalengineering #engineering

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vintagepromotions · 3 months

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Eisenbahn bei Nacht (Railway at Night) postcard (1905). Artwork by Max Vollmberg.

#vintage postcard #1900s #germany #german #Max Vollmberg #train #railway #night #train station #transportation

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afrotumble · 5 months

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Dudhsager Falls, India.

#india #nature #waterfall #train #railway #transport #railway bridge #bridge

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year

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"Kingston Requires and Deserves a Modern Station," Kingston Whig-Standard. April 1, 1943. Page 3. ---- Expanding so rapidly that an accurate statement of its population is impossible, strategically located on one of the most heavily travelled rail sections in Canada, Kingston for many years has suffered a grave lack in the accommodation of the travelling public.

Despite its ever-growing importance as an educational, industrial and military centre, this city of more than 35,000 continues to be serviced by a Canadian National Railways station completely outmoded and woefully inadequate for the hundreds of servicemen and civilians who daily stream from or crowd towards the many trains which link it with other parts of the Dominion.

If first impressions are as weighing as they are said to be, then Kingston suffers a grave injustice in the eyes of its many newcomers.

Through-travellers, too, must be shocked when straining for a glimpse of this historic Eastern. Ontario city from a train window they are confronted with the spectacle of a dingy, 19th Century building.

While glistening new industrial buildings bespeak the progressive spirit, and ivy-covered university buildings and public buildings on spacious grounds lend a touch of tradition within the city proper, Kingston's C.N.R. station continues sadly inadequate for the constant ebb and flow of rail traffic.

Kingston's chief railway termmal suffers sadly in comparison with rail depots in many other Canadian cities of approximately the same size.

While limitations imposed by war may make impossible immediate construction of a modern station, The Whig-Standard, with consistent faith in the future of this city, maintains that one of the first considerations in local post-war improvements should be new building of up-to-date design which, well equipped to accommodate rail travellers, would be a source of pride, not shame, to Kingstonians. We feel certain Kingston citizens would be satisfied with, and delighted to hear, a definite promise from the C.N.R. that a new station would be built at some specific date in the immediate future. Photo caption: Shown above is a scene at Kingston's outmoded C.N.R. station as soldiers and civilians milled around on the platform outside the station waiting room. Cramped, drafty rooms inside the old building are unpopular, but almost always crowded.

To the right is a picture of the station at Saskatoon, a modern, well-designed building suitable

to accommodate the travelling public of that western city, population of which is but slightly larger than Kingston.

In Kingston, a marked increase in the number of residents, plus the large military establishments located in the district, have further complicated unsatisfactory conditions at the Outer Station. Kingston is the major stop for Toronto and Montreal trains between departure and destination, yet the travelling public here is forced to use inadequate station facilities.

[AL: Ah, the days when the worst thing about getting between cities in a train was the station was kind of ugly at one stop - instead of it being preposterously difficult and expensive almost anywhere in Canada to use a train to get between cities.]

#kingston ontario #train station #canadian national railways #railway journey #railway capitalism #railway transportation #canada during world war 2 #boosterism

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sonyaheaneyauthor · 5 days

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Railroad and train in the Lviv region of Ukraine (1880s). X

#ukrainian history #vintage ukraine #black and white #railway #1880s #19th century #19th century photography #old trains #ukraine #lviv #eastern europe #transportation

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stave-writes · 1 month

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Darlington (Chilchuck x GN!Reader)

Summary: First Meet With Chilchuck <3

If the Island Dungeon was known for one thing, it'd be danger. Then again that was the same for most Dungeons, but well...Lately, it'd gotten worse. Rumours of a Red Dragon prowling on a higher floor than usual and even the Dungeon Lord appearing higher than normal!

As a traveller to the island, you'd chosen to stay out of the dungeon. You'd be either an idiot to enter without a reliable party and most of those wouldn't take a new adventurer like you... Although, you had made a "business contact" which turned out to be a friendship. Chilchuck Tims, the head of the Half-foot union, was said contact.

The rumours you'd heard didn't paint him in a very good light, per se. Other half-foots called him greedy, demanding his pay upfront and taking union dues from members. Parties without a half-foot called him uncooperative and stubborn in terms of pricing, even if he was a skilled and tenured locksmith.

So by the time you'd met him, there was a small impression forming in the back of your mind despite your better judgment. Yet...he wasn't at all the way.

Chilchuck was mild-mannered, with a voice in an even tone and despite his race's common features, it was easy to tell he wasn't all that young. His hair was grey in places, and visible tear-throughs (wrinkles just beneath the eyes). Despite his professional demeanour, there was a sense of tiredness to him. Languished sighs and irritation at his fellow party members.

But he was kind enough to you. A bit of a smile while talking to you, or a careful piece of advice. Unlike everyone had said him to be, he seemed to have a good heart. From what you could tell, who knew, maybe it was just how professionals were on the island.

It'd been about a week since you last talked to him, his party had gone into the depths of the dungeon and not returned. It was concerning, but you weren't that close anyways...no use for your worries. A hope that he would come back safe is what you kept as you went on with your business.

Sorry this is so short! tbh I kind of forgot where I wanted to go with this </3 Buuut, promise I'll make a continuation sometime so you can get some romance content chil fandom

#for anyone wondering! the title Darlington is based off one of the first industrial railways which lead to the creation of the first unions #also this is here because I am a transport nerd <3 #and as he's a beautiful union man...#if yk you know #dungeon meshi chilchuck #chilchuck tims #chilchuck tims x reader #chilchuck x reader #chilchuck delicious in dungeon

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libraryofva · 3 months

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