This might be the best ad for a train museum, ever. Just incredible.

your periodic reminder that there used to be up to 48 trains daily between Chicago and Milwaukee on the electric North Shore Line today Amtrak runs 7, and the original station in MIlwaukee has been replaced with a parking lot

The first fire was lit in Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways's latest new-build 0-4-4-0 Double Fairlie, No. 8 "James Spooner", today. This will be the eighth Double Fairlie to run on the railway and is the fifth built entirely at Boston Lodge Works. 📷 Ffestiniog Railway

It never gets old 🥰 - DUS 🫶

Santa Fe U28CG #353 is stopped at Chanute, Kansas with the northbound Tulsan, circa 1968. This train provided direct service from Chicago to Tulsa, Oklahoma via Kansas City. Service ended on April 30, 1971. american-rails.com/tulsan.html

Rebuilt July 1981 by Hunslet Holdings, Austerity S134 was a test bed for single manning with an underfeed stoker, settling in at Wheldale for trials. Come that December, heavy blizzards blocked the ECML & M1, freezing up Wheldale's diesels - so S134 was the only engine available!

3 Ex LNER Engines in the Repair Shop at Darlington Works at 1:05 pm on 17th March 1965.The Engines are all at different stages of a Casual or Heavy Intermediate Overhaul.Nearest the camera is V2. 60824,then A4. 60034"Lord Farringdon",and A3. 60052 "Prince Palatine" 📸F.Coulson.

Union Station Christmas tree >>>

25 years ago today in 1999, 6 words changed tv forever

The FBI posts their yearly MLK Day tweet, get community noted so bad that they then make a public statement. (2024)

60 years ago we funded like 5 metro systems and built an underwater tunnel, multiple tunnels under the capitol and miraculously built one in Atlanta too. Do it again

Pennsylvania leads in clean transportation, has had a zero-emission passenger fleet since 1905

celebrating Star Wars Day the traditional way

a thread of how marilyn monroe actually looked in real life, in honor of her 98th birthday

“Amtrak's new Twin Cities-Chicago route through Milwaukee turns a profit in first 11 days” bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news… via Milwaukee Business Journal #Amtrak

Minnesota troops defeated and captured a confederate flag from Virginia troops during the Civil War. To this day, Virginia keeps asking for it back and Minnesota keeps telling those losers they can't have it

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