#c&ei

[railwayhistorical]

Surprise on the C&EI

This was an interesting sight: a northbound (TOFC) train with Southern Railway power on the former Chicago & Eastern Illinois (Mopac by this time). We're in central Illinois, not far from Tuscola.

Perhaps this run-through arrangement was a way for the Southern to make it to Chicago—they really should have snapped up the Monon prior to the L&N getting that road in 1971.

That lead unit, as SD35, was built for the Central of Georgia in 1966. It's interesting to note that the Southern purchased all their locomotives with high-short-hoods and tended to run long-hood forward, but not always. I always loved this idiosyncrasy with the Southern Railway as well as the Norfolk & Western.

Two image by Richard Koenig; taken November 20th 1976.

[20th-century-railroading]

C&EI locomotive, engine number 1015, engine type 4-6-2 Three-quarter view of right side of engine, from front end. Photographed: St. Louis, Mo, October 25, 1929.

[aryburn-trains]

Villa Grove–Thebes overnight train

Villa Grove–Thebes train 123, with cars from Chicago, at Marion, Ill., 1935.

[cheatsylu]

For a request, LU triple threat? I bet they’d be so cute in that style!

NOOOOOO don't use your canonically accurate strength Wild!!

[justcallme-ange]

What will a reunion between papa XD and Dream look like? Pardon me for I am utterly obsessed with them ueueueue

Hey, it just means I get to talk more about my boys!! Ask away ^^ It takes a long time, Dream is an adult by the time they meet again.

Dream was worried his papa wouldn't recognize him, or be mad that he disappeared, or disappointed it took him this long to reach the End.

Exdee actually needed a moment to recognize his boy, it had been so long since they'd been face to face, and Dream is no longer a child. He'd imagined this moment countless times throughout the years - but reality still took him by surprise.

He's tall, almost as tall as Exdee in his human form, with broad shoulders and sun-bleached hair. They look almost identical to each other, and yet the person standing before him is so different.

It's all good though, the moment the mask comes off, there's no doubt this is his little boy. He's a little scarred, and there are lines under his eyes but it's him. Exdee loved his son the moment he created him, rooted for him from afar, and continued to love him even worlds apart.

The Void God is just happy he can hold his son again.

[spaciebabie]

im ill.

[syndicatedsystem]

*points at you*

Silly

silly (if you put smth in my ask box im getting to it dw :^) )

[akkivee]

in one of his radios, sasara offhandedly mentioned that whenever he’s up for a drink, without fail rei accepts his invite and it was to the point sasara wondered if rei had nothing ever going on lmao but rei trying to find happiness in a bottle is so 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[salmiakkisaatana]

TottaKAI tääl on satanu lunta joku 10 cm suoraa jään päälle ni et tosiaan nää mis kohtaa on liukasta ja mis ei.......

[heckyeahponyscans]

I found a 80s Hasbro Maxie doll at the thrift store, wearing 80s Barbie clothes.

My hot take is she's a better doll than any of the 80s / 90s Barbies. Vintage Barbie gets so idolized by modern doll collectors and frankly I don't think she is deserving of it, she always had awful hair, weird feet, and often unstylish clothes. Maxie's hair is like a dream come true, still silky after all those years (might be nylon?).

I guess that is in part why 80s Barbie is now admired, because 80s clothes of course looked very dated AFTER the 80s. So by not wearing them . . . she has more universal appeal. (I mean, some Barbie did have 80s clothes, like this California Dream outfit, but the poofy gowns and bright pink business suits were like "no occasion" clothes. Honestly anything extremely pink was not likely to be fashionable in the 80s, unless it was neon pink surrounded by neon blue and green.)

But that is also why Bratz destroyed Barbie in the early 2000s, the Bratz wore clothes in-fashion for the 2000s and Barbie didn't.

Anyway, I think Maxie could have been successful but of course Mattel sued Hasbro over her and that was that. I do think her name is extremely foolish, since the main word association with "maxie" in the 80s would be "maxi pad", aka a menstrual pad. (I dunno if people still call them that today?) She was probably named by a man.

[railwayhistorical]

Westbound Local

The spot of this photograph is two miles west of Tuscola, Illinois. I don't know if there could be a flatter place on earth.

A westbound CSX local is working the former B&O line that runs over to Decatur. In the distance one can see the huge ADM plant adjacent to the former C&EI and Illinois Central (UP and CN by this time).

One image by Richard Koenig; taken in early 1991.

[20th-century-railroading]

Chicago & Eastern Illinois GP35 #272 leads a northbound freight out of Granite City, Illinois on May 1, 1964.

[aryburn-trains]

Dearborn St. Station, Chicago, 12AUG'68

The Orland Park local has disappeared for its former Wabash commuter territory, while that Santa Fe RS1 switches passenger cars on left. The MoPac/C&EI E7 (28) departs with the "Danville Flyer", and the C&WI RS1 remains by the freight house with its caboose. Already the fresh blue on the E7 is marred by evidence of "mud pumps" along the way to and from Danville.

[mrfoxdeer]

Soldiers, traitors, ghosts and ghouls. Somehow we're always matching.

[dick-chugger]

Oon siis tässä lähiaikoina miättiny mun vaihtoehtoja asevelvollisuuden suhteen ja ne on käytännössä:

Armeija (Ei tuu tapahtuun)

Sivari (En halua)

C-paperit (En voi päättää asiasta)

Vankila (Ei myöskään kauheen houkutteleva)

Paska maa.

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

i have truly gone off the deep end when it comes to purple eyed sugu i do Not like or know this man 💀