#reading railroad

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

Trainposting :3

#trainposting #amtrak #electric traction #reading railroad #amtrak cascades #southern railway #southern serves the south #northern pacific #rock Island Railroad #new york central #south shore railroad #union pacific #steam locomotive #passenger train #electrification #electric train

[alightinthelantern]

The Reading Railroad’s Crusader streamliner. The Reading (pronounced “redding”) Railroad was primarily a freight company which transported anthracite coal throughout the Northeast US, but it offered a small number of passenger services as well, including electric commuter trains in the Philadelphia area, and, instated in December of 1937, the Crusader service between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Jersey City, New Jersey. Inspired by the Baltimore & Ohio’s Royal Blue service and the sleek, shiny streamlined consist it received in 1935, The Crusader sported corrugated stainless steel siding for all its cars, and on the engine the boiler shrouding was painted a contrasting bright, deep blue. On the engine’s stainless steel siding was painted the train’s name, Crusader, in Gothic lettering in that same vibrant blue.

As an essentially deluxe commuter service, the train was modest in scale, sporting five passenger cars behind the tender: two coaches, a tavern-diner car, and two round-end observation cars, one at each end of the consist. This allowed the engine and tender to be switched individually, at the railyards, to the other end of the cars, when changing direction of the train, rather than requiring the entire train end to end to be switched in direction to keep the observation car at the back. There was no baggage or mail car. The small train was classy, bringing an art deco luxe similar to the famous 20th Century Limited express between NYC and Chicago to the commuter route of the region, and it offered amenities, like a full breakfast and tavern service in its diner car, not normally available on commuter trains. The train was popular with travelers, as it offered a more exciting alternative to the more humdrum services on the same route of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

After WWII the Pacific-type locomotives were replaced with diesels, and the service did well throughout the 1950s, but in the next decade the entire train consist was replaced, and eventually the service was downsized, then finally cancelled, amid competition from bigger railroads and from automobiles.

Photos:

1940s linen card advertising the Crusader service.

The Crusader crossing the stone bridge over the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia.

The train’s engine, #117, a 4-6-2 Pacific Class G1-sa, in streamlined casings in an unknown railyard.

Vintage color illustration of the Crusader trainset

Newspaper photograph of the Crusader train.

Photo Sources: X, X, X

#Crusader #trains #streamliners #1930s #art deco #Reading Railroad

[amityblightandsp4449fan]

Pictures of Reading & Northern 2102 at Port Clinton (7-2-22)

#reading and northern 2102 #reading 2102 #reading t1 #reading and northern railroad #reading company railroad #reading company #reading lines railroad #reading railroad #reading lines #iron horse rambles excursion #iron horse rambles #4-8-4 northern #4-8-4 #northern #steam locomotive #steam train #locomotive #train #railroad #railway #railfan #railroad photography #train photography

[otaku553]

Haha

#yanqing #honkai star rail #hsr yanqing #my immediate fixation on ice wielding child genius characters in every media I consume strikes again #idk I just think he’s neat!! and so is his gender #he’s definitely overdesigned but I do enjoy the general shape of his clothes #like wow… baggy outer layer AND baggy inner layer #how come you get to have two baggy layers #still don’t know that much about him even after reading his character stories on the wiki #so I’m hoping that his quest writes him well #I suppose there’s some degree of like interesting contrast in the fact that he’s very young on a ship full of people who live very long live #but I feel like regardless they really don’t give him much of a personality besides his hyperfixation on swords and the general naivety and #inexperience from youth yknow what I mean #I just think it would be cool to see like why he’s so ambitious! was he railroaded into being a knight because of his talents? did he try #to be accepted as a knight? what kinds of expectations is he facing and what expectations does he place on himself as a result #I really hope he isn’t just there to be a simpler minded child character for jingyuan to take care of

[therainingkiwi]

Train travel in The Lightning Thief/PJO TV season 1

Oh look, I'm overanalyzing fictional train travel because I'm one of Those neurodivergent people. Let's get into it. Warning for VERY minor book spoilers (just mentioning the names of all the cities our trio travels through).

TL; DR our trio's cross country travel route makes no sense at all.

In the first book/season of the Percy Jackson series, our main trio takes a cross-country trip from Long Island, NY, to Los Angeles, CA. In the beginning, it appears as if they've boarded a cross country bus that will drive them the whole way there (a trip that usually takes ~72 hours). However, they get derailed in rural New Jersey (presumably the northwestern part of the state).

After New Jersey, the action immediately skips ahead, and we next see our trio on an LA-bound train that's about to stop in St. Louis (and in the book, has a later stop in Denver).

So, just off the bat: the train route that the trio are taking doesn't exist IRL (assuming they board a train in Trenton, and that train stops in St. Louis, Denver, and Los Angeles). It's also impossible for a single person to travel that route for $200, much less three people. Chiron needs some up to date information about cross country travel prices.

If they were traveling a reasonable IRL amtrak route, they'd probably take the Cardinal from Trenton to Chicago, and then take the Southwest Chief from Chicago to LA. However, if they can get back to Penn Station from Aunty Em's, they could take the Lake Shore Limited from NYC to Chicago, which would be 7-8 hours shorter than getting to Chicago via the Cardinal.

They could also take a bus from north New Jersey to Chicago.

However, the Southwest Chief (most direct amtrak route to LA) stops at neither St. Louis nor Denver. The most notable cities along the route are Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff.

If they wanted to take a route to LA that had them pass thru St. Louis, they could take the Texas Eagle from Chicago to St. Louis to San Antonio, and then take the Sunset Limited from San Antonio to LA. There are 3 trains per week that make this two-leg trip without requiring travelers to transfer at San Antonio, so our trio are probably on one of those. Why they didn't take the (shorter, cheaper, and more frequent) Southwest Chief is a mystery, honestly.

Since Chicago is the USA Amtrak hub, most routes will pass thru that city. The only alternative route is taking the Crescent from Trenton to New Orleans and then taking the Sunset Limited from New Orleans to LA. This would take them nowhere near Denver or St Louis, but probably wouldn't have a significant time/price difference from routing the trip thru Chicago (assuming they travel direct from Chicago to LA rather than taking the Texas Eagle thru San Antonio).

Unfortunately, there are no trains in the USA that travel between St. Louis and Denver (or even between St. Louis and Colorado in general), so that leg of their trip would have been made via bus. Greyhound (the USA's main long-distance bus travel company) has buses directly from St. Louis to Denver that end in California (but in San Francisco rather than LA).

In conclusion, I propose a new Amtrak route called "The Lightning Thief" that travels from New York-Penn Station, down the Northeast corridor thru New Jersey, and then turns west, making major stops in St. Louis, Denver, and Las Vegas, before terminating in LA. It doesn't stop in Amtrak's Chicago hub because all hub-and-spoke transit systems should have rim routes, and because Chicago isn't mentioned in The Lightning Thief.

Also, in conclusion, the USA needs better rail infrastructure and I'm a fucking nerd.

Amtrak map below for reference.

#percy jackson #pjo #percy jackson tv series #pjotv spoilers #long post #amtrak #railroad #the lightning thief #i wanna read an AU where the group takes the Southwest Chief train to LA and has fun adventures in Chicago and Albuquerque and Kansas City

[nukacoola]

Omfg I know I’m shouting into the void but every Fallout fan needs to read the journals of the Railroad leaders from P.A.M.’s mainframe terminal. There’s that huge theory that Deacon is the lone wanderer but he was actively, documentedly, doing stuff in the Commonwealth before, during, and after Fo3’s events jfc. I feel like I’ve uncovered sacred texts with untold secrets but they are fully available both in game and online.

The timeline does match up for Pinkerton in Rivet City to be Pinky from the Commonwealth Railroad tho which I fully believe.

#there is so much insane lore in there I swear #I’ll never be able to read a Deacon fic again knowing now the inaccuracies #fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #fo3 #fallout 3 #the railroad fo4 #the railroad fallout #the railroad fallout 4 #deacon fo4 #deacon fallout 4 #deacon fallout #fallout deacon #fallout 4 deacon #fo4 deacon #the lone wanderer

[mindstack]

And although those halls no longer stand

still my memories lead me there

to you gentle embrace and tender kisses

#dark academia #lgbtq+ #books #books and reading #bookshelves #bookstores #library #libraries #train #railroad #railway #locomotive #rail #gravestone #graveyard #grave marker #cemetary #headstone #tomb #angel #angelic #fall aesthetic #autumn #fall #september #autumn aesthetic #autumn leaves

[erregiulydraws]

“Let’s go on and on together forever“

#tbhk #jshk #minamoto kou #mitsuba sousuke #whew ok i got this out of my system i'm gonna go back to other stuff i need to be working on LOL #in light of the recent chapters i have been thinking about the night on the galactic railroad crossover again and how well it fits mitsukou #the book is a pretty good read by the way i recommand it! pretty short too #i reread it recently and man aidairo has got to like it a lot because i can definitely see them taking inspiration from it in a lot of ways #and more specifically about all the parallels beetween giovanni and campanella and kou and mitsuba #anyway i'm out i just had to draw these two together at least once #i love mitsuba but it seems i have been drawing everyone but him every time i made fanart

[ladychandraofthemoone]

HAPPY 35TH ANNIVERSARY SHINING TIME STATION 🚂✨☁️💨🎉🎊🎂

(the conductor family is in the background just facepalming he’s fine btw😅😅)

#tatmr #ttte #thomas and the magic railroad #shining time station #shs #junior conductor #jr conductor #my art #my art <3 #my art stuff #my art tag #my art lol #ttte junior #junior ttte #tatmr junior #junior tatmr #it’s Ben awhile since I drew anything digitally haha yeah my 1/1 and 2/2 days are gotta be late school and work been kicking me around #Drawing in my energy so sorry for missing the anniversary but it’s close enough Junior reads to me as a croc mismatched cost gremlin #also adding conductor family hc in my au they have pointed ears like elf’s and sparkles on their face and hair #my Verizon takes pakce around the 2000s hence y2k baby hah I got a lot to say about Junior he’s friends with Kyle Stanley and duke hate him #I’ll do some of the other main cats characters in a separate post Junior pose is inspired by this one princess peach fanart

[honeybakedhams]

huh this guy feels a little horny for plows

#i'm reading the octopus by frank norris #it's based on disputes between wheat farmers and the railroad

[spaceratprodigy]

🖤 wycb — Deacon and Zeke 🖤

[deacon voice] I looove @oldworldwidgets worth a fair amount too >:3c

scene from wonderful you came by which you should absolutely go read btw!!

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#sorry not sorry I'm legally obligated to annoy (affectionately) aud every chance I get <3 #and I've been in a very strong Must Draw Deacon Railroad mood lately #anyway go read wycb and go follow oldworldwidgets #my art #friend writing #fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #deacon #deacon fallout 4 #deacon fo4 #zeke fallout 4 #zeke fo4 #atom cats

[fadran]

Once upon a time, in a hole in the ground far, far away, the universe was created by the first Spinjitzu Master. This had made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

This is the story of how I died. Who am I? You sure you want to know? It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; the clock had just struck thirteen, and Scott Pilgrim was dating a high schooler.

It’s dangerous to go alone. If you are interested in stories with happy endings, then here is a small fact: you are going to die.

Let me ask you a question. You never really remember the beginning of a dream, do you?

Black

All important movies start with a black screen.

#hon. mentions: #that day humanity remembered the terror of being ruled by them #on the road to hell there was a railroad track #three billion human lives were ended on August 29 #ash fell from the sky #This is my favorite book in all the world though I have never read it #lotr #star wars #scott pilgrim #ninjago #hitchiker's guide to the galaxy #spider-man #charles dickens #1984 #legend of zelda #series of unfortunate events #the book thief #inception #skyrim

[alightinthelantern]

Reading Railroad “Crusader”, led by locomotive #117, pulls out of Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. watercolor painting by James Mann

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#Reading Railroad #Crusader #art deco #trains #streamliner #streamliners #1930s #watercolor #art #paintings #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania

[infernalurge]

I thought I read somewhere there's a way to ally with both Orpheus and the Emperor but now I'm googling and I can't find it?

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #more reason not to bother finishing act 3 lol #I find the writing in the final act relly sloppy #and I thought you could figure a way to make peace with orpheus and emperor #but if you can't then I don't even care about the ending #I swore I read that ifyou bring Lae'zal #you get a dialogue tree involving her #that allows you to convince Emp to free Orpheus #but now I can't find this anywhere #no offense but stuff like this is why larian kind of suck and why I won't be buying their next game #I hate psuedo-intellectual garbage in my rp like this stuff #there's literally no reason not to let my high CHA avatar convince Emp and Orpheus to chill #it's just railroaded becaause OMGGG SUCH TOUGH CHOICE GUYSSSS #fuck off larian this shit is boring #you didn't give me a super hard conflicting choice all you did was make me roll my eyes and never finish your game completely #because the ending and epilogue are lame as fuuuuuuuuuck

[moonshynecybin]

do you have any books recommendations? 🙏

okay usually i like to know a general vibe for recommendations bc this is INTIMATE!!! and im actually in a weird place in my reading journey where im trying to branch out and try a bunch of different books in a bunch of different genres bc i got lowkey sick of what i was reading all the time so this is all over the place. whatever fuck it. here are some recent ones in no particular order that ive enjoyed OR at the very least found interesting. most of these are pretty famous i'll be real im not breaking the wheel here. under the cut bc she is long

our wives under the sea by julia armfield. was this book good hmm i dont know. was it kind of fucked up and interesting. YES. some of the prose is legitimately sooo gorgeous and the portrait it paints of the central relationship is intimate and oftentimes heartrending i still think about it which is kind of what you want from a story tbh... a really slow plot (kind of nonexistent) thats frankly more about grief than anything. theres some spooky body horror here so beware

slaughterhouse five by kurt vonnegut. shes a classic for a REASON. do you ever pick up a book that is very beloved and famous. and then get genuinely and pleasantly surprised that it actually rules. happened to me. legit kind of life changing and also made me laugh out loud. if you havent read it get on it

the kingdoms by natasha pulley. read this over the summer and i vividly remember sitting in the basement at my job hiding so i could read one more page i was RIVETED!!! its historical fantasy its time travel its amnesia it is. on a boat. basically like what if fucked up gay love and also magic made france win the napoleonic wars would that be crazy or what!!! and it was!! also read some of her other stuff which is VERY similar and it was like. fine to good. but i LOVED this one

carrie by stephen king. read it around halloween and i enjoyed it more than i thought i would ! some category 5 stephen king sexism but its an interesting 200 page scifi novel with epistolary elements and some great characters i can see how it launched his career into the stratosphere... really good one to start off with reading stephen king if you wanna dip a toe in but are wary of the 1000 page doorstop novels. i say give it a try !

demon copperhead by barbara kingsolver. recent pulitzer prize winner. its a retelling of david copperfield with a distinctly southern appalachian lens which im always interested in because i am from southern appalachia and frankly the way we get treated in fiction is wild. like hillbilly cannibals who are illiterate coalminers wild. if i ever catch the guy that wrote hillbilly elegy we are throwing hands. but i liked this ! the region does have a long history of poverty and it was interesting to think about that in conversation to the social commentary with a victorian vibe from david copperfield. i mean this is decidedly unvictorian but that was floating in the back of my head at all times reading it so it made me THINK.

giovanni's room by james baldwin. another one where i was like do you see this shit?? this shit is crazy. and the shit in question is one of the most acclaimed and beloved novels of all time. anyways another life changer get on it.

even as we breathe by annette saunooke clapsaddle. another southern appalachia moment ! this one rings VERY true for me actually, despite being a historical novel... written with a lot of love for the area and made me cry a bit cause i was homesick at the time... great mystery and cool local history. also! one of the better representations of the cherokee people ive seen in fiction. which usually im hesitant to like. pin that as a THE major reason you should read it bc the story is ALSO very good but its a central theme of the novel so i thought i should mention it. plus the author is cherokee so she's coming at it with knowledge and care

in memoriam by alice winn. recommendation from a tumblr mutual so i thought id continue the tradition! read it in literally a day so im fuzzy on the details but its about rich eton style english schoolboys getting their spirits basically destroyed in the trenches of ww1... also a gay love story... lots of poetry very tragic but not overly so and certainly very readable... a competent historical gay romance if thats ur thing youll probably enjoy it

the poppy war by r f kuang. interesting bc it initially feels like a historical fantasy novel with a young protagonist going to a magic school and overcoming the odds slash beating the evil enemy story thats been done one billion times. but it is DEEPLY not that. takes the conventions of the genre and kind of refuses to make them reducible or easy to package. deals with war (read the warnings etc). deals with genocide. deals with race. wrestles with the ethics of all of its characters and comes down with some nuance. kind of a slay

and then here's some all time faves that are just GOOD and im reasonably sure anyone would have a good time with:

jane eyre. i have quoted this enough on this blog cmon. also if youre following me youre probably a fan of fucked up relationships so you should go. be with the OG. fly. like its foundational to the GENRE babyyyy

dracula. yayyyyy epistolary novelssss... another "fun" classic along with dorian gray... read em both they slap

the book thief. took me a year to read. made me cry lots.

daisy jones and the six. look at me look AWAYYY from the amazon series look at ME. this is a fun book. and if you are in a reading slump i frankly HIGHLY recommend it bc it is done in the style of like. a documentary autopsy on a fleetwood mac esque band implosion so its told in 100% dialogue as if they are being interviewed. you can read it in a DAY and its FUN and sometimes they CONTRADICT each other which i LOVE

the queens thief by meghan whalen turner. GOD!!!!! all time. all time. straight relationships in fiction that make you crazyyyyyyy and also genuinely delightful twists at the end of each book i LOVED them. i read them all in the pandemic they slayyyy

howl's moving castle. delightful. if you like a silly time in a fantasy world that makes you laugh a lot i would recommend. also the sequel its fun

any terry pratchet novel thank you goodnight

#rapid fire ones: circe by madeline miller. piranesi by susanna clarke. the underground railroad by colson whitehead. the things they carried #also and i am beign so serious. if you have never read ella enchanted you should. it is fun. #callie speaks #asks #staring down my tbr and waiting for my brain to get better. torture. #next up is house of leaves. lfg. #the tonal whiplash on this list is so funny im realizing. 50% fun fantasy and 50% THE HORRORS OF WAR.

[pyrriax]

more lavius for today 💪 (wip possible new pfp? we'll see)

#haunted ecosystem #the warmup i did made me giggle it looks so goofy but also it was a reminder Why i warmup first. #apparition sketchbook #lavius gets more traditionally fem details the more i draw him and i think its funny #ALSO the flowers are intended to be a reference to my fav movie ever (night on the galactic railroad) it'll b more obvious colored #ALSO bringing back how i used to draw on chickensmoothie of all things. erase those base lines and just use the sketch instead of lining #its so much easier and i sketch clean enough these days it works #finally broke the habit of petting lines to hell and back aside from like. the initial circle #honestly ive made so much progress just in switching to drawing humanoids #can i draw hands? yeah if i really want to. but also its objectively funnier to just use paw approximation instead since it reads