#US rail
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notsogracefullyput · 11 months ago
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lamajaoscura · 3 months ago
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alightinthelantern · 7 months ago
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Parlor-Observation car "Juno" on the Nebraska Zephyr, a daytime passenger train operated daily by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) between Chicago, Illinois and Lincoln, Nebraska. Beginning operation in 1947, the train was typical of streamlined trains of the postwar period in that its carbodies were built of stainless steel and featured an all-silver exterior, the trademark of the Budd Company, but it was also notable in that it continued the CB&Q's unusual tradition, which began in the 1930s, of articulated, unified trainsets, with all passenger cars in each consist sharing bogies (wheel-trucks) and permanently coupled together.
The Nebraska Zephyr operated once-daily in each direction, with Westbound #11 departing Chicago at 12:45 PM and arriving in Lincoln at 10:30 PM, while Eastbound #12 departed Lincoln at 11:00 AM and arrived in Chicago at 8:45 PM. The 551-mile (887 km) trip took 9 hours and 45 minutes, and its average speed was 56 miles per hour (90 km/h) including stops. Service utilized two trainsets which each operated one direction on day and the opposite direction the next. One trainset's cars bore the names of Roman female gods, and was nicknamed "the train of the goddesses" (Venus, Vesta, Minerva, Psyche, Ceres, Diana, and Juno), while the other trainset's cars were named for male Roman gods, and was nicknamed "the train of the gods" (Apollo, Mars, Neptune, Cupid, Vulcan, Mercury, and Jupiter). The trainsets were in fact built by the Budd Company back in 1936 as the second pair of Twin Zephyrs, for CB&Q service between Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, making them some of the first stainless-steel trainsets built by Budd, and as such they initially bore the same style of locomotive as the other CB&Q Zephyrs from the 1930s, of a smooth, semicircular front curving seamlessly into the roofline at its top, but these locomotives were later replaced with the stainless-steel-bodied, shovel-nosed diesel locomotives of the 1950s which all the CB&Q's Zephyr trains later received.
Each of the Nebraska Zephyr's two trainsets consisted of several coaches and parlor cars, a coach-dinette, dining car, cocktail lounge, and parlor-observation car. The parlor-observation car on "the train of the gods" was named Jupiter, while its goddess counterpart was named Juno. The locomotives were named Pegasus (CB&Q #9904) and Zephyrus (CB&Q #9905). The trains were generously appointed and provided comfortable travel throughout the 1940s and '50s, and the high level of service was maintained until 1963, when the cocktail lounges were removed in favor of additional seating. In 1966 the dining cars were rebuilt as "cafeteria cars" with vending machines for additional cost-cutting. The aging trainsets were retired from service entirely in 1968, although CB&Q continued to operate the Nebraska Zephyr train with other rolling stock until 1971, when the newly-birthed Amtrak took over all remaining passenger rail service in the US.
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skillwiththequill · 2 years ago
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Amtrak dropping a rail daddy
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el-ffej · 9 months ago
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One second there... I'd argue that the large freight rail corporations (e.g., Union Pacific) are a major reason for this.
They're putting their lobbying money behind limiting passenger rail. (Though that's probably secondary to keeping freight rail safety regulations criminally lax.)
So do people realize that we aren't building new train tracks when we expand the amteak network, I have multiple times seen people say that we shouldn't expand the network because it would destroy protected lands, which would be a fair criticism but Amtrak doesn't build new tracks, we use existing tracks. We are not destroying protected lands, we are using land that has already been clear for a century
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ceeejus · 5 months ago
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🖥️💾
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bananakeiky · 6 months ago
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Biblically accurate boyfriend
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invisibl3museum · 6 months ago
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Guessing I never posted the finished piece~
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nobllite · 7 months ago
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Save a horse, ride a what?? 💥
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ahyuggg · 20 days ago
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gay bathtime 🛁
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paranormeow7 · 2 months ago
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reblog if you’re an illegal alien going in for transgender surgery in prison
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pleucas · 1 year ago
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we breathe, eat, fall in love and die
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aratribow · 10 months ago
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Wherever u are op, just know that ur so real for this
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Ngl jing yuan would genuinely want to be able to use the gen z lingo just to maybe impress yanqing but unfortunately, in turn, it just gives yanqing severe trauma
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by-saiyuri · 3 months ago
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reading the astral express family chat
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inchidentalmeowmeow · 5 months ago
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Pookies 🫶🏻
Just some lestappen popping on ur feed to get you through the drought
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mapsontheweb · 2 years ago
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Passenger trains in US vs Europe (image is making the rounds among U.S. transit advocates today)
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