#El train

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The residents of Atlantic Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant must have gotten used to the rushing and clanging of the Long Island Railway in front of their houses, 1940s.

Photo: Joe Schwartz via the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture

[nemfrog]

Brookfield Zoo--By the "L". Chicago. Federal Art Project, WPA, [between 1936 and 1938]

Library of Congress

[hyperrealcartography]

The Last Train to Jamaica: How NYC Almost Replaced Its Els

Image of Queensboro Plaza, twice as large as it is today, before unification. Undated. Image of Queensboro Plaza, twice as large as it is today, before unification. Undated. Image of Queensboro Plaza, twice as large as it is today, before unification. Undated. The New York City subway is famously made up of three formerly private railroads; three distinct networks that were planned to be…

[thicc-astronaut]

Thinking about The Boring Company’s transport loops tick me off so much from an engineering standpoint. Just that it is basically just a road for electric cars (because gasoline cars would fill the tunnel with fumes)

Like gee. You want to reduce automobile traffic by building underground tunnels for electric vehicles? DO YOU KNOW HOW TO REDUCE AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC WITH UNDERGROUND TUNNELS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES?????

OH YEAH. A TRAIN. NOT ROAD VEHICLES. Electric trains been around for a hundred and thirty years and nobody at The Boring Company asked why cities use these rather than building extensive underground taxi routes. Or, more likely, somebody did ask why, and Elon Musk had them demoted. 

I think what ticks me off the most is that the vehicles they use unmodified Tesla Model 3′s. Because it makes it obvious that this is just about the tunnel. If you want to use road vehicles to travel directly place to place with no intersections, you can make an expressway with a turnaround at the end. 

The core idea is just bad. Everything it tries to accomplish has been done before, and better. Underground electric mass transit has been done before. Car-based instant transit has been done before. They made a suckier version of the subway and had the audacity to appropriate the name “Loop” from Chicago’s Public El Trains.

[oldfilmsflicker]

new-to-me #814 - El Train

[artistmacposts]

#Christmas #transit CTA Holiday Train at 47th Street Red Line, Southbound and Northbound, Same Night

[sockiepuppetry]

Malewife and Girlboss cousins

always love when dc media portray Kara as more militaristic than Clark. It creates a nice contrast to her farm boy cousin.

[ancientegyptdaily]

ANCIENT EGYPT BY TRAIN (2023) — 1.01 Alexandria Site Director Mahmoud Abd El Rahman explains the preservation of the mosaics in the Villa of the Birds, Kom El Deka, Alexandria.

[magicalcreeks]

I fear I might be cooked

[hijinxinprogress]

YJ is not allowed on social media

Most capes have like an official hero social bc people just leave comments like ‘captain colds out again no class?? 👀’ instead of flagging down a hero or getting the police to get the nearest hero so most crimes are discovered through viral videos

And yj decides that they need to be on social media so they make ig and tiktok accounts which somehow led to them running a smear campaign against Lex while he was running for president

it’s mostly videos of Cassie in a superman onesie flying around pretending to save damsel in distress!Kon while Bart in an ill fitting bald cap is sitting behind a desk clearly made of cardboard as he mutters about how he’ll show everyone the truth and petting a picture of a cat with drawn on angry eyebrows then the video cuts to Bart way too close to the camera saying ‘A vote for Lex Luthor is a vote against happiness’ then the video ends with Cassie in the same superman onesie with a lightning bolt taped to the front of it claiming ‘this message was endorsed by captain marvel’ [a week later captain marvel makes a posts responding to the video in a captain marvel onesie reaffirming Cassie’s claim]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Manhattan was blighted for decades by elevated subway tracks running for miles along main thoroughfares. This is the Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, in midtown Manhattan, 1951, four years before it was torn down.

Photo: Kodakslides Instagram

[sakebytheriver]

(The last one had like 3 movies that were not Dreamworks so I'm making one that's only Dreamworks, I picked the most iconic)

Don't forget to reblog to make a larger sample size!

[abacistat]

even sun-absorbing kryptonians can get sunburnt :-(

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

MAWS 100% has my favorite iteration of Brainiac, no questions asked. Like I've never been a huge fan of him being a Kryptonian AI but this show sold me on the concept (I still prefer green man with skull ship but). His deliberate malice, his calculated manupulation of Kara. The fact that he told Clark to take his hand so he could show him "my Krypton" only to trick him into testing his strength. He put a block over the mural so that whoever gazed upon it would become a slave to the empire. His ideology of "strong" and "weak". The fact that Kandor is not a bustling city of remaining Kryptonians but instead a collection of souls in agony. He is cold and intentional with everything he does, a soulless machine that is all too human. He is Brainiac but with the virtues of Zod.

[hustledimension]

I was made aware of this through a reddit post: we can nominate movies to be preserved in the National Film Registry, and we should nominate some Dreamworks movies. Shrek is already in it. The criteria is that the nominations must be at least 10 years old and an American film. With this in mind, I think we should nominate the following movies to be preserved in the registry:

The Prince of Egypt

Chicken Run

Kung Fu Panda

How to Train Your Dragon

You can nominate up to 50 movies at this submission form. Deadline is August 15. The Library of Congress also has a list of notable movies that haven't been preserved in the registry yet, which includes other Dreamworks movies you could nominate:

The Road to El Dorado

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Shrek 2

Shark Tale

Madagascar

Over the Hedge

Bee Movie

Monsters vs. Aliens

Shrek Forever After

Kung Fu Panda 2

Puss in Boots 1

Rise of the Guardians

The Croods

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Penguins of Madagascar