#railway yard

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Charles Reiffel (American, 1862-1942), Railway Yards - Winter Evening, c.1910. Oil on canvas, 18 1/8 x 24 3/16 in. The Phillips Ciollection, Washington, DC

Charles Reiffel - Railway Yards-Winter Evening (ca. 1910)

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"TRAIN WRECKER GETS TWO YEARS," Sault Star. May 6, 1912. Page 1. --- Found guilty of attempting to derail an A. C. R. train at Hobon last week, Mike Dunbovitch was this morning sentenced by Magistrate Mackey to spend two years in Kingston Penitentiary.

Dunbovitch was previously in the employ of the O'Boyle Construction Co., but had been discharged. He tried to derail the train by plugging a switch. He was arrested by Provincial Constable Connor.

[AL: Dunbovitch or Dunbodie was an 'Austrian' immigrant to Canada, 20 years old and unemployed; this was his first offence. He was actually convicted of breaking locks and stealing a railway handcar. He was convict #F-389 at Kingston Penitentiary and worked in the quarry and trucking gang. He was a very poorly behaved according to prison rules - he was 'admonished' (reported and lectured) five times between June and October. He was reported again in November and December and lost his 'good time.' He was put in solitary for 12 days in February 1913, and again in March and April. Finally, he was transferred in mid-April 1913 to the high security permanent segregation unit - the Prison of Isolation. A few days later he was given 7 days bread and water in his cell. He was kept in Isolation for the rest of the year, and released at the almost full extent of his sentence in April 1914.]

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"Conductor handing engineer copy of train orders before a Chicago and North Western freight pulls out for Clinton, Iowa. Since the track between those points is under automatic train control, the engineer hands the conductor the key to the automatic train control lock of the engine. The conductor will keep the key in the caboose until the train arrives at its destination." Photographed January 1943 in Chicago by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

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Railway yards of Fremantle, western Australia

Australian vintage postcard

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Shout out to the new Doctor Who episode for showing one of the most horrific parts of the UK: the Great Western Railway

[richwall101]

1910 - Duluth - Minnesota - St Louis County - Soo Line Railyard - And Camden Bridge.

The Soo Line Railroad (reporting mark SOO) is one of the primary United States railroad subsidiaries for the CPKC Railway (reporting mark CPKC), one of six U.S. Class I railroads, controlled through the Soo Line Corporation. Although it is named for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (MStP&SSM),

Duluth is also the birthplace of Bob Dylan (May 24th 1941)

Images by The Detroit Photo Co

[kiestrokes]

istg…either this is the funniest fandom exchange ever or the sleep deprivation is really getting to me.

[berzerkpics]

Smartphonephoto Berzerkpics Chilliwack BC canada

[elsbridgestation3d]

TVS Elsbirdge Station Release

We've got another route for release, it is a TVS Elsbridge Station. Locations include Elsbridge Station and Yard, as well as Elsbridge Viaduct, Countryside, and Elsbridge Town. This route was created in Trainz Railroad Simular 2019 by @jonberry555 (Trainz user name: TheRailwayConductor1)

You Can Download the Route Here: https://elsbridgestation.wixsite.com/es3d/ts2019

[aneverydaything]

Day 1910, 15 September2023

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In honor of #DisabilityPrideMonth Erin Quintanilla explains how Walt Disney Imagineering brought access to disabled guest to Mickey's Toontown and how they bring inclusive storytelling trought Disneyland and Walt Disney World.

An how inclusive storytelling for disabled people is at Disney Television Animation for Disney Junior shows.

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"HEAVY SENTENCES FOR STRONG ARM MEN," Cobalt Daily Nugget. October 22, 1912. Page 6. --- NORTH BAY, Oct. 21 - Two ex-convicts named John Hergin and H. Blanchard, were sentenced to five years in Kingston Penitentiary by Magistrate Brodie, at Sudbury, for highway robbery, the victim being an elderly Swede who was decoyed to a lonely place in the C.P.R. yards at Sudbury where he was beaten and robbed of eighty-one dollars. Both had just finished prison terms within the week. [Both men had been released from local jails. Bergin was 30, a fireman (i.e. shoveled coal into a boiler), and an Irish immigrant with many tattoos - a heart cross anchor motif, a dove, a horsehead on his left forearm, a crucifix on his right, and a shamrock, closed hands, heart, and on his outside right arm. He had a U.S. flag on his hand. He was convict #F-487 at Kingston Penitentiary and mostly worked at the stone pile and excavation at the prison until promoted to the engineers. He was reported once, in May 1914, and given three days off his good time. He was released in early 1917. Blanchard was 38, from Quebec, a 'labourer,' and likewise had tattoos - clasped hands on his forearm. He was convict #F-488 at the penitentiary, and worked in the quarry. He was never reported, and released in late 1916.]

[iso3200net]

Shunting yard (digging through the archive)

Digging through the archive, here's a shunting yard, marshalling yard, or classification yard, on the southern outskirts of the city. Although it wasn't that late, dusk was already slowly setting in. January 2020, pre-pandemic era.

I like how the telephoto lens compressed the perspective, and made all those widely spaced poles look like they're right next to one another. A lot of horizontal and vertical lines, an ordered clutter.

Taken with Panasonic GX7 digital mirrorless camera, and adapter Sigma 135–‍400mm F4.5–‍5.6 APO DG ultra-telephoto lens, via off-brand FourThirds-microFourThirds adapter.

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Winona Garden Railway helicopter cleaning up the leafs

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I got the covid vaccine (and the flu one) today by the way. They were like, are you immune-suppressed, just said I live with someone who is and that was it? OK.

Also a family member got his the other day at a different place and they seemed to be just trying to give them out to anyone who was there, like apparently there was a pregnant woman getting one and then they just offered one to her partner too there and then even though he wasn't booked for one. Supposedly you can't actually book the vaccinations online if you're not eligible (even though I did; it gave a list of eligible reasons and you had to pick one and I picked the applicable one but according to every source on this that is not actually eligible this year so...???) but then the actual people doing them just seem to be giving them out to whoever. So... fuck knows what's going on with that really. I still don't get why they even tried to restrict who they give them to compared to last year, why would you try to put more vulnerable people at risk like that?

(You know the building where I went today, I first went there... 3 years back I think, and I thought then, it looks like a railway building, maybe a station or something, it's that kind of Victorian railway architecture. I didn't think it was an actual station because it's not quite the right sort of shape and I just didn't think there was a station there anyway but I looked it up afterwards and it is a railway building, it was originally the offices for one of the railway goods yards for the line that used to run just to the west of where I live. So while I'm always stressed as fuck about going to these sorts of things, standing where probably some of the old lines used to be in the goods yard is kind of cool.)