#20th century limited

[voca1ion]

Beautiful stylized art deco postcard sent in 1938 from the railroad post office on the inaugural journey of the new streamlined 20th Century Limited from New York to Chicago

[carbone14]

Locomotives Hudson class J-3 des trains express 20th Century Limited reliant Chicago à New York City - 1939

[lisamarie-vee]

[theamandacollection67]

Life Magazine 1946

[new-york-central-official]

Pair of 1920s magazines published by the New York Central Rail Road containing railroad news (both specific to the central and more generally).

[rodpower78]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Bonzo, a five-year-old chimpanzee appearing in a forthcoming Hollywood motion picture, sits atop the counter at a waiting room in Grand Central Terminal, February 5, 1951. He was there to congratulate and thank a train-caller, left, for getting the New York Central’s 20th Century Limited into the city.

The Limited was one of the few trains to get through despite the railroad workers' strike. Bonzo's trainer, Henry Craig, right, holds the chimp. The board in the rear lists scheduled arrival times of trains and cancellations.

Photo: Tom Fitzsimmons for the AP via WHNT

[zponds]

Now with the New York Central hudsons being iconic, I thought I’d have Hudson, Steele and Mark be shown in one post, and as usual, these images will provide Grantgfan with images of my TTTE OCs when the time comes for them to show up in The Genie Team season 9.

Hudson⬇️

Steele⬇️

Mark⬇️

Now since some of the j1 hudsons have different numbers; Grant can edit them to match Mark’s number: #5396.

[urbs-in-horto]

New York to Chicago in 16 hours on the 20th Century Limited 1938

[usedcarheaven]

streamline..you know..

[voca1ion]

[abellinthecupboard]

The 20th Century Limited

Close at the edge of the platform already terrified to ecstasy, waiting for the enormous winds of its approach, smash and wallop of drive rods smoke billowing everywhere— my brother, my parents, everything from ten feet out gone spectral through steam, so joyous an uproar of steam, of steel- to-steel so fine a hullabaloo as I haven't known since but ache, crave, hanker and itch, pine, lust for and thirst and yearn for still, that great suck and inrush of vacuum, power of in-pull, that resistless horror of the edging in.

— John Engels, Sinking Creek (1998)

[collinthenychudson]

With New York Central 5450 demonstrating it's power, the 20TH Century Limited thunders out of the tunnel and into the sunlight.

Models and Route by: K&L Trainz, Auran, and Download Station

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

ℭ𝔦𝔯𝔠𝔩𝔢 𝔏𝔦𝔪𝔦𝔱 ℑ𝔙 (ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔫 & ℌ𝔢𝔩𝔩) 𝔟𝔶 𝔐ℭ 𝔈𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔯. յգճօ

[tunababyyyy]

also i think we as trans people need to start being a problem again. call yourself a faggot transvestite and crossdress whichever way you want in public. embrace the inherent glorious punk nature of a sex change. be a horrible freak full of love. i'm so sick of being palatable

[dwellordream]

“Sex and reproduction affected women’s lives much more powerfully than men’s. The mid-century decades were particularly treacherous ones because the codes of sexual conduct were changing so rapidly. On the one hand, traditional sexual mores and the “double standard” remained so strong that a woman’s reputation could be “ruined”--in the lingo of the day--if she behaved in ways that were outside the boundaries of acceptable sexual conduct for women. If she became pregnant as a result, the consequences were extremely dire. On the other hand, these were the years when sex became big business; sex was used to sell products from cars to toothpaste.

Magazines, movies, and every form of advice literature encouraged women to be attractive and sexy to catch a man--but to put on the brakes when it came to sex itself. Birth control devices were becoming more effective and available, but abortion remained illegal except under exceptional circumstances, and illegal abortions were extremely dangerous. If women were confused by all these mixed messages, it is no wonder. As one woman recalled, “Postwar America was a society with Stop-Go lights flashing everywhere we looked. Sex, its magic spell everywhere, was accompanied by the stern warning: Don’t do it.”

…It was now obvious that homosexuality, once considered a deviant fringe element of society, was pervasive. But in the hostile climate of the Cold War years, this knowledge did little to make life easier for gay men and lesbians. In fact, the postwar era was a time of heightened persecution of homosexuals. Anyone who did not display the appropriate sexual behavior of the era--heterosexual dating, young marriage, and childbearing--was suspected of being a “pervert.” This pejorative term was widely used during these years and implied not only sexual deviance, but danger. The Republican party national chairman, Guy Gabrielson, claimed that “sexual perverts… have infiltrated our Government in recent years,” and they were “perhaps as dangerous as the actual Communists.”

It was widely believed that only “manly” men could stand up against the threat of communism, and that “perverts” were security risks. The persecution of homosexual men and women became more intense than ever before. Homophobia became ferocious, destroying careers, encouraging harassment, and forcing homosexuals to name others with whom they associated. In 1950, the Senate issued a report on the Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government, which asserted that, “those who engage in overt acts of perversion lack the emotional stability of normal persons… Indulgence in acts of sex perversion weakens the moral fibre of the individual.”

Male homosexuals were considered the greatest menace. Lesbians were also condemned, but since displays of affection between women were not uncommon, lesbianism more easily went unnoticed. Nevertheless, lesbians established strong communities with distinctive styles of dress, behavior, and social institutions. Lesbians who were open about their identity faced extreme hostility and even violence.

…Dating began the path to marriage. Most young people dated during high school, and many, especially young working-class women who did not go on to college, married right after graduation. The dating system established a certain amount of physical intimacy between unmarried men and women. Although the proportion of young men and women having sexual intercourse did not increase substantially between the 1920s and the 1960s, there was a significant increase in physical intimacy that stopped short of intercourse. As Kinsey noted, “on doorsteps and on street corners, and on college campuses, [petting] may be observed in the daytime as well as in the evening hours.” He claimed that petting was “one of the most significant factors in the sexual lives of high school and college males and females.”

Dating and petting in high school often encouraged young coupling, and those who were steady dates were more likely to become sexually involved. One teenager explained that it had more to do with love than with sexual experimentation: “Something you go all the way in should only be with someone you really love, not just any date.” Although adults at the time were sometimes alarmed at what they saw as promiscuous behavior, dating and petting, and even intercourse between steadies, was part of a system of dating that was expected to lead, ultimately, to the rational choice of a marriage partner.

The dating and petting system, however, contained many dangers for women. It was very difficult for a young woman to know how to avoid being a “prude,” and at the same time to know how far was “too far” to go and still maintain her reputation and desirability. The “double standard” was fiercely enforced, which meant that boys could experiment sexually with little risk, but girls were condemned if they did so.”

- Elaine Tyler May, “Sex: Dating, Marriage, and the Double Standard.” in Pushing the Limits: American Women, 1940-1961