#baltimore & ohio

[middleland]

IOOF Building — Baltimore, Ohio (2) by Christopher Riley

[railwayhistorical]

Ubiquitous

Crossing the north/south rail line in Seymour, Indiana, I noticed a headlight. I pulled over and set up for this northbound train, which can be seen with a connector track to the east/west line in town.

The train is on the Louisville & Indiana (former Pennsylvania) with the unseen line being CSX (former Baltimore & Ohio). I was hoping for some spiffy-painted L&I units (which take after the old Pennsy), but instead got yet another dose of the ubiquitous Union Pacific.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken November 15th 2024.

[burkh4rt]

[aryburn-trains]

Sixth Street Crossing

Pittsburgh commuter to Versailles 4 days before this line was relocated to eliminate 23 grade crossings McKeesport, PA May 1, 1970

[20th-century-railroading]

Illinois Central Gulf - Ash Street

A westbound ICG local freight approaches Ash Street crossing while a B&O transfer is on the connection track to the Santa Fe behind the tower, in April 1987.

[doctorwhoisadhd]

thoms england.

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Why do people keep asking me about a glove

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Who's OJ simpson

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HEY DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE THAT ONE SOUL GUY WENT

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Wait have you all seen the gnome

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What gnome???

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⚾️ blaseball

what

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takig a straw out into the garden after it rains and slurping up all the yujmmy delicios mud

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Thinking about divorce

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Thinking about marriage

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What the fuck

[blondebrainpowered]

"Dictionaries Being Installed on Trains."

From the Imperial Valley Press (El Centro, CA), December 13, 1924.

[city-flag-tournament]

✯ Round 1 ✯ Match 60 ✯

The current flag of Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Propaganda:

Baltimore residents has thoroughly embraced the black-and-yellow angled checkerboard pattern as a representation of civic pride. It is found throughout the city on many murals, tshirts, hats, and kitschy doodads

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The current flag of Euclid, Ohio, United States

Propaganda:

NON TRADITIONAL FLAG SHAPES MY LOVE

Tournament Policies: ✯ Choose the flag that's more meaningful to you! ✯ Be respectful of place names and cultural symbols in your commentary! ✯ If you want to submit propaganda, you may do so at the submission form linked in the pinned post. It will only be included if it is submitted before the next post with that flag is drafted and will be included in all subsequent posts the flag is featured in.

[blaseballzinejam]

we're SO back @blaseball

[greatrunner]

There's a video going around of a white woman who goes up to a Black family's house with her two children, ringing their doorbell, and taking off into the night, screaming her head off about a Black man threatening her.

The man who lived there had just arrived home and asked her why she was on his porch, and she accused him of not living there before she went crying wolf.

It got me thinking how white flight and white paranoia pushed to normalize mass surveillance, pushed to normalize civilians surveilling each other.

But most importantly, how this mass surveillance was created by the paranoia of whiteness on the brink of extinction because it was, on some level, being decentered by certain sects of society.

Whiteness cannot exist without opposing something Other than itself. If it cannot push a narrative, it manufactures one. It's believers will go mad without something to fight or demonize.

As such, that woman was so 'troubled' by the fact that a Black family was living in her midst that she basically tried to pull a Rosewood on this family.

The only thing that stopped it from escalating was the presence of the man's wife and child. Ironically, the very mass surveillance apparatus that encouraged the hysteria that she tried to use to her advantage, named and shamed her in the aftermath.

The paranoia of whiteness is not limited to white people. In cities like Baltimore, when some Texas tech firm offered a drone surveillance pilot to the city's police (BCPD), Black citizens were more than happy to buy into the program despite opposition.

They thought the program would make the city safer and believed that none of the data collected would be an invasion of civilian privacy.

Because, unfortunately, the narrative of inherent criminality within the Black community has been bought hook-line-and-sinker.

[middleland]

Smeck Park (2) by Dan Keck

[railwayhistorical]

Brownstown Memory

Here are some shots from today—juxtaposed with a couple from the late 1970s (as teased in the previous post).

We're along an old railroad: built (in broad gauge no less) as the Ohio & Mississippi prior to the Civil War. It became the Baltimore & Ohio later, and was still so, though becoming the Chessie System, when I photographed it as an adolescent. This siding is called Brownstown, though it's removed a bit from the burg itself.

I was looking west for the first two images (that is the same curve in both shots, though difficult to tell). I turned for the going-away shot and have a pretty good comparison capture made today.

Five images by Richard Koenig; two from October 22nd 1977, and three from November 13th 2024.

[burkh4rt]

[aryburn-trains]

B&O GP9 6604 and Port Authority Transit RDC (Monongahela Valley Commuter Trains), Pittsburgh, PA on October 18, 1978

[20th-century-railroading]

Tuckahoe WV Saturday October 12th 1985 1200EDT by bill hooper Via Flickr: A single pusher engine assists an eastbound coal train into the Alleghany summit tunnel

[pxmun]

Stinker was crossed, it was Christmas Eve and he was stuck inside the locomotive shop with a broken funnel, foot plate, and faulty wiring.

The dock switcher grumbled aloud in disappointment; he should be out helping his best friend Zappy clear the snow off the track and double heading trains. Instead he was inside dangling above the track from a locomotive hoist.

The workers tried to brighten Stinker's spirits by festively decorating the shop and playing Christmas music, but this seemed to annoy the small engine even more.

"My heavens, you would think the Grinch was the one on that hoist with all the grumbling your making." Came a voice.

Stinker immediately stopped and looked down to his left. Standing there below him was an class AC-11 4-8-8-4 Southern Pacific Cab Forward, but Stinker was familiar with this locomotive.

"Whoa Rivet! I didn't see you. How long have you've been there?" Stinker asked."

"Long enough to recite the Nutcracker play in its entirety. Goodness did a Humbug crawl into your smoke box during the night"? Rivet asked.

Stinker blushed out of shame and embarrassment.

"Sorry Rivet, I've just been in a sour mood lately. The workers broke my funnel and footplate and somehow an electrical wire snapped inside me"! Stinker explained.

"I'm sure the workers didn't mean to break you on purpose Stinker, remember everyone is new here to the railroad and trying their hardest to make things run properly, we're all still learning." Rivet responded.

"I know Rivet. I'm just worried about poor Zappy though, he's been doing all the work since I've been put out of commission and the passengers have been complaining that he's emitting a bad smell. That poor engine is gonna work himself to pieces and we can't help"! Stinker said.

" I understand Stinker, but what can we do"? Rivet asked.

"We could really do with a fourth locomotive, one what doesn't come broken." Stinker said.

"Another engine would be nice, but the railroad is unable to determine beforehand if an locomotive is going to work properly or not." Rivet told the smaller engine.

Stinker sighed in defeat. He looked out the windows into the cosmic sky. A comet flew by as he watched.

"I wish we had another engine." Stinker said to himself.