Weekend 534.2
There is a painting at the National Railway Museum in York by Abraham Solomon titled ‘First Class: The Meeting, 1855’ highlighted in ‘Railways for Ever!’ which is narrated by Sir Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Railroads
Transit Wizardry & Homecoming (of sorts)
District to Victoria to St Pancras ‡‡‡ Eurostar ‡‡‡ to Gare du Nord to 4 to 1.
London Station Group (Collect ‘Em All)
There are 18 railway stations served by the National Rail network in central London. My goal is to explore and photograph each. Here’s a quick list / summary to date Continue Reading →
Penn Station
(1) This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful (Politico) “Penn Station is the second most heavily trafficked transit hub in the world, trailing only Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station. The station Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving 2019
(1) American Interior (1935) by Charles Sheeler (2) Game Over: How technology forced traditional toys to evolve (Vera) (3) Great Western Railway: Adventures with the Famous Five (YouTube) (4) A Continue Reading →
Southampton
Concluding my three city swing (Austin, Portland, and Southampton) with another list. What’s surprisingly missing from this one is anything White Star Line / Titanic related. I was in Southampton Continue Reading →
Portland
The one on the west coast. I was there for a long weekend and in traditional limestone fashion wanted to draft a top ten… (1) The Hollywood Theater at PDX. Continue Reading →
Weekend 379.0 (Ice is forming on the tips of my wings…)
(1) Stunning Photos of Trains Roaring Through Picturesque Landscapes (My Modern Met) Some of these photographs remind me of the Yellow Train by Francois Roca. (1a) Flashback: Brooklyn Comics and Continue Reading →
Weekend 343.1
(1) On September 13, You Can Ride the 7 Train to Hudson Yards (2) ÖBB Headquarters / INNOCAD Architecture (ArchDaily) (3) More quotes from The Heart of our Cities by Continue Reading →
Weekend 332.0
(1) Eminent domain on steroids? New bill threatens cities, towns (Fairfield Citizen) (2) How Bad Religion Has Bequeathed Us ‘An Anxious Age’ (The Federalist)
Weekend 312.0 (Le mal du pays)
A couple of days off from work (a much needed extra long Labor Day Weekend) so I’m doing some housekeeping, biking, and drinking gratuitous amounts of coffee. I also finished Continue Reading →
Weekend 309.0
(1) Sturmey Archer “The Planetary Gearset” (YouTube) (2) Speed Traps For Japan’s Escalators (WSJ – Registration Required) (3) Shakespeare as a Life Coach (WSJ) “The world is grown so bad Continue Reading →
Weekend 307.0
(1) Designer Jasper Morrison on Beautiful Basics and Tintin (WSJ) “By worrying when the next idea might come, you restrict yourself—with the perspective of time, he’d learned to treat design Continue Reading →
Weekend 300.0 (Rare 3 Day Weekend)
…and great timing because my Space Mountain Graphic Novel just arrived! Weekend 279.0 (Post Con/Abridged) (1) A quote from Hayao Miyazaki in The Art of the Wind Rises: “I don’t Continue Reading →
Weekend 284.0
(1) A resort train winds through Kyushu (NHKWorld) (2) Model R.R. (Pop Pop)