#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.

[zponds]

My Friends’ Tribute to Rachael Lillis

Hudson: Thank you, Rachael Lillis, for your job in voicing Misty Waterflower and Team Rocket Jessie.

Jason: You did a fantastic job with voicing those two, Rachael.

Perry: As well as Jigglypuff.

Torpedo: And Ursula from Dinosaur King.

Freddy: Regardless of how many voice roles you had, you did a great job voicing them all, Rachael.

Glenn: You brought joy to 90s kids with your role as Misty.

Otto: And Jessie and Jigglypuff too.

Madeleine: Your roles as those Pokémon characters will always be cherished.

Jimmy Guord: And you yourself will always be remembered and cherished.

Union: Your legacy will always be remembered.

Wasatch: Especially your legacy as the OG Misty and Jessie.

Peter Sam: We will always remember you and carry your legacy with us all.

Centennial: Rest in Peace, Rachael Lillis.

Rebecca: May you find peace in the afterlife.

Jessica: You deserved to live a healthy life full of happiness and love and joy.

Artemis: Veronica Taylor and Eric Stuart will miss you dearly, as they’ve been with you since the beginning.

Queen Roanoke: Your loss has not only left a major impact on the Pokémon community, your sister and your fellow actors, but also us locomotives.

Daylight: You didn’t deserve to pass away from breast cancer.

Zane: You were very cheerful and generous, always happy to greet those who wanted to meet you… especially in person.

Cincinnatian: We hope your sister, family and friends will be okay.

Chief: May God watch over your kind soul and be in peace.

Angeles: May we, including Veronica and Eric, one day, be reunited with you.

Rudolph: Your personality was as cheerful as your voice.

Angelo: Let us carry your memory within us forever more.

Donohue: May your soul join the purest and kindest of all.

Judith: You lived a legend and died a hero.

Stella: Until the day, Rachael Lillis, till all are one…

Red Robin: Till all are one…

Jewel: We all hope you find eternal peace up in heaven, being watched over by God. Rest in Peace…

These are the tributes that some of my friends from the 20 American railroads said for Racheal Lillis. After I told all my friends from the 20 American railroads about the passing of Rachael Lillis, they were all as devastated as I was. And they too wanted to pay their tributes to the OG Misty and Jessie.

[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

vs.

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