(1) NYC Subway Maps: Historical Maps
(1a) Subway Art Card for the MTA by Visual Storyteller Feifei Ruan
(1b) Commuter Rail Guide designed by Joan Charysyn (1975)
Category Archives: Mass Transit
Weekend 567.0
(1) How to Play: Race the Rails the TfL Card Game (YouTube)
(2) Ebbsfleet International to Stratford International / British Rail Class 395 Javelin (Train Sim World 3)
(2a) Limestone Photo Archives: 395 013 at the Hornby Visitor Centre (Flickr)
(3) Why I’ve fallen out of love with my Brompton (The Spectator)
Weekend 566.0 (Black Umbrella)
(1) Kingdom Hearts 20th Anniversary Vinyl LP Box — Translated Yoko Shimomura Interview (KH13 · for Kingdom Hearts)
(2) Why Did It Take 13 Years To Build The Elizabeth Line? | The Trouble With Crossrail | Spark (YouTube)
(2a) London’s railway of the future is finally here (Engadget)
(2b) Elizabeth line: London’s brand new railway has finally arrived (YouTube)
(3) Notre-Dame Cathedral Will Reopen by 2024 (Smithsonian Magazine)
(4) Bermuda “Hogge Money” Coin Sold For $96,000 (Bernews)
(4a) A quote from Bermuda’s Story by Terry Tucker:
“It was at that stage, millions of years ago, when the great winds blew our little limestone hills into the shapes they are to-day: the highest is only about 260 feet above the present sea-level. The so-called coral of which the islands are formed is in reality a true aeolian (windblown) limestone, formed of wind-driven shells and sand, with a small admixture of coral materials.”
(4b) The Earl of Southampton – Shakespeare’s Patron (No Sweat Shakespeare)
(4c) A poem by Nathaniel Tucker
Beneath my bending eye, serenely neat,
Appears my ever-blest paternal seat.
Far in the front the level lawn extends,
The zephyrs play, the nodding cypress bends;
A little hillock stands on either side,
O’er spread with evergreens, the garden’s pride.
Promiscuous here appears the blushing rose,
The guava flourishes, the myrtle grows.
Upon the surface earth-born woodbines creep,
O’er the green beds the painted ‘sturtians peep.
Their arms aloft triumphant lilacs bear,
The jessamines perfume the ambient air.
The whole is from an eminence display’d
Where the brown olive lends his pensive shade.
Weekend 563.0
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Weekend 539.0
(1) A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (The Catholic Thing)
(2) UK rail union aims to shut network in 3 days of strikes (Reuters)
“The Rail Delivery Group, which represents companies operating train services, urged the RMT to call off the strikes, saying the industry was suffering with passenger numbers at around only 75% of pre-coronavirus pandemic levels.“
(2a) The Proud City: A Plan for London (YouTube)
(3) Hawley and Grassley Receive Evidence from Whistleblower Showing DHS Intent to Weaponize Social Media to Control Information (The Last Refuge)
(4) April 11, 1963 – General Edwin Walker (YouTube)
Weekend 535.0 (Waiting for the gift of sound and vision)
(1) TfL Launches Limited Edition Elizabeth Line Oyster Cards (Londonist)
I tried to find one this AM ten days before the line opening. I tried Green Park on the Piccadilly, Bond Street on the Jubilee, and Paddington on the Bakerloo.
Update: The Oyster Cards were being dispensed from Charing Cross.
(1a) Update 2: Success! I was at Charing Cross this morning (very early).
(2) London Tube Colors: Hex, RGB, CMYK & Pantone (London On My Mind)
(3) RideLondon FreeCycle
(4) A-HA The Movie (YouTube)
Transit Wizardry & Homecoming (of sorts)
District to Victoria to St Pancras ‡‡‡ Eurostar ‡‡‡ to Gare du Nord to 4 to 1.
Modernity in miniature
(1) I’ve clipped the blog post title from a chapter in the excellently written British Rail Architecture 1948-97 by David Lawrence.
“For centuries architects have used miniature versions of their designs to communicate their ideas to emperors, oligarchs, magnates, civil servants and audiences who must be engaged to ensure a project is approved for development. They may be the device which convinces a client to provide substantial investment for a project.”
“Many modelers will choose a station as one of their first buildings because it is a simulacrum of the interface between trains and human activity. It is an archetype for all stations. In this way the model — in fact an assembly of sundry materials and adhesives — is an imaginative threshold into the tiny world of the model railway, inviting the modeler and audience to step, like Alice in Wonderland, into a perfect version of an imperfect world.”
>>> Source File
(2) Continental’s BIG CITY H-O Scale Modern Architecture Series (Flickr)
I have the ‘Entrance Building’ (Model No. 104) which inspired this photo at Walt Disney World. What do you think happened to Continental Models at 1 Dupont Street in Plainview, NY?
(3) Artist rendering of the new concourse for Liverpool Street (1987) from British Rail Architecture 1948-97 by David Lawrence. I love the vintage engine. It reminds me of Playmobil 4052.
