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Fallen Flag Railroad Photos
- Animats 3y agoThere are names there that were once thought to be too big to fail. - The Pennsylvania Railroad, the Standard Railroad of the World. - The New York Central Railroad, their main competitor. - Railway Express Agency, the FedEx of its day.
- IIAOPSW 3y ago"I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert... 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains." And I heard that story and said 'pfft, surely I can do better than that sucker.'" There are now two vast and trunkless legs of stone in the desert. one comically larger and more crumbled than the other. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. That's basically the story of the former Pan Am building, which sits right next door to and overshadows the former New York Central's Terminal building in Manhattan.
- rob74 3y agoThe building of the mighty airline overshadowed the majestic terminal of the formerly mighty railway, but then the mighty airline itself faltered, and the building now belongs to almighty finance...
- IIAOPSW 3y agoAnd I heard that story and I said "pfft, surely I can do better than the last two suckers"...
- Animats 3y agoYes. Corporate ego trip movies, circa 1950. Pennsylvania Railroad's "Progress on the Rails".[1] New York Central's "The Big Train", featuring the CEO.[2] He's lobbying for deregulation and less federal funding for airports and roads. Both include sections on the data processing systems of 1950. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8TM-LGDt5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8TM-LGDt5M [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZUXNs8ts9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZUXNs8ts9I
- bombcar 3y agoIf you want a sobering antidote to corporate hubris, read the Dow Jones Industrial Average for every year since it was founded.
- appleflaxen 3y agoCan you elaborate?
- bombcar 3y agoIt's the "30 best companies" or such, and not a single one of the original companies is still on the list. Of the original list (which is mostly railroads) I think only Union Pacific and Western Union still exist under their own name.
- heartbreak 3y agoAre you thinking of the right list? The original DJIA components had multiple companies that still exist today such as General Electric and Domino Sugar. The only railroad company was TCI, but they were primarily in the steel business and have been US Steel for over 100 years.
- bombcar 3y agoAh I was looking at the transportation average, the older one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Is the correct link
- Lammy 3y ago> once thought to be too big to fail Relevant: Bureau of Labor Statistics data for American railroad jobs from 1947 to today: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES4348200001?amp%25253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true&from_year=1947 https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES4348200001?amp%25253bdata...
- PLenz 3y agoThe merger of NYC and the Pennsylvania - the Penn Central - was the biggest bankruptcy in US history before Enron. <i>The Wreck of the PennCentral</i> is a great business book on why.
- a2tech 3y agoI love websites like this. It’s an obsessive collection of information, neatly formatted. No JavaScript or elaborate backend systems. Just a plain information dense webpage. A reminder of what the web used to be
- zokier 3y ago> A reminder of what the web used to be But this page still is here and is seemingly even being updated. So the web that used to be still is.
- skellyclock 3y agoThen you'll love this! https://www.vintagestreetlights.com/ https://www.vintagestreetlights.com/ https://www.deviantart.com/tpirman1982/art/Celebrating-10-Years-of-Street-Light-Pictures-437881478 https://www.deviantart.com/tpirman1982/art/Celebrating-10-Ye... https://www.angelfire.com/planet/tpirman1982/index.html https://www.angelfire.com/planet/tpirman1982/index.html
- NikkiA 3y agoI think Douglas Self's (yes, that Douglas Self!) museum websites probably are of interest too: http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm and http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm
- 111111IIIIIII 3y agoRecalls the legendary Parisan lamp post photographer Charles Marville https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Marville https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Marville
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- 111111IIIIIII 3y agoI am regularly astounded by the depth, breadth, and usability of https://marxists.org https://marxists.org.
- zokier 3y agoIs "fallen flag" a phrase I should recognize? I realize the site is probably not for me, but I would have appreciated a paragraph explaining what is being presented here
- PLenz 3y agoThe audience of the site are railfans - and these terms are common in the jargon of that hobby. We don't define cpu on pages about speculative execution, do we?
- ant6n 3y agoI work in the rail industry (different country) and didn‘t know what this is about. That page seems to have no explanation what it is about, what it does or what the intent is.
- quietbritishjim 3y agoI was confused too. I found this: > The term "Fallen Flags" describes those railroads whose corporate names have been dissolved through merger, bankruptcy, or liquidation. At one time the United States boasted nearly 140 Class I's. https://www.american-rails.com/fallen-flags.html https://www.american-rails.com/fallen-flags.html OK great, but what's a "Class I"? > In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, Class II, or Class III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB). The STB's current definition of a Class I railroad was set in 1992, that being any carrier earning annual revenue greater than $250 million. This has since been adjusted for inflation and most recently set to $504,803,294 in 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Class_I_railroads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Class_I_railroads
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- jl6 3y agoAmazing dedication. This is what the internet is for!
- schroeding 3y agoNice to see that BNSF 4723 still has the Microsoft Train Simulator Sticker[1] in 2022. :) [1] https://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bnsf/bnsf4723bf20.jpg https://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bnsf/bnsf4723bf20.jpg
- nroets 3y agoYes, Microsoft really need the brand exposure /s
- 111111IIIIIII 3y agoGood catch lol
- bentcorner 3y agoSomething about that photo (aliasing? cleanliness of the sticker?) makes it look photoshopped, but it actually does have that sticker: https://youtu.be/9eOYUYSXzi8?t=56 https://youtu.be/9eOYUYSXzi8?t=56
- seabass-labrax 3y agoI think it's the JPEG compression ratio being different on that region compared to the rest of the picture. That video is great though; just how many containers do you want?!
- ez_mmk 3y agoCan somebody put this on the Internet Archive?
- pabs3 3y agoOn its way via ArchiveBot: http://archivebot.com/ http://archivebot.com/ https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot
- Lammy 3y agoI've grown wary of relying only on IA [lammy@popola#Webrips] du -hs www.rr-fallenflags.org 43G www.rr-fallenflags.org [lammy@popola#Webrips] find www.rr-fallenflags.org | wc -l 479221
- pabs3 3y agoArchiveBot regularly grabs sites of that size and uploads them to IA, its not a big deal. The Imgur/Reddit archiving was at least an order of magnitude or two larger. Of course it is always good to have multiple copies of a site, especially personal ones for things you care about.
- usr1106 3y agoWill that work? The site mentions that it's not indexed by search machines. So I guess it has a robots.txt (on my phone and did not check...) Would the archive respect that?
- Jefenry 3y agoAnnoyingly, Internet Archive doesn't respect robots.txt. I specifically excluded ia_archiver from my site which worked for a number of years until they decided to ignore it because robots.txt "do not necessarily serve our archival purposes." They do remove your site if you email them though. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/internet-archive-robots-txt/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/internet-archive-rob...
- dghughes 3y agoMy province has the ultimate fallen flag the entire railroad system here was dismantled in the mid 1980s. At the time I never knew of its history or my family history with it until my Dad gave me a metal box. In it were old family documents, pictures, mementos mostly from my great-grandfather. He worked on the railroad but I had never know about it I barely even knew his father my grandfather. Even more historically powerful my province which at the time was not a province of Canada had massive debt due to railroad construction costs. We only joined Canadian Confederation to get the debt paid off and since it is an island a promise to have year-round access to the mainland.
- floren 3y agoIs this Nova Scotia? I ask because I've often wondered over Stan Rogers' song "Guysborough Train" which seems to be about a planned but never completed railroad line.
- iamhamm 3y agoThings I never expected: reference to Stan Rogers on HN. I believe your interpretation is the generally accepted one. Stan was from Guysborough and as I understand it, the rail line was started, quite a lot of progress made, and then never finished so there was a lot of displeasure from the locals at the constant reminders of the failure of the government to make good on their promise to deliver the railroad.
- dghughes 3y agoNo but you're close, I'm in PEI the neighbour to the north of NS.
- samstave 3y agoI have a bunch of model trains... like at least 60 cars/engines in N and HO scale... I dont know what to do with them per se... I bought the collection at an estate sale, but I have some famous pieces. I just love trains.