Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
“In the middle of the Indian forest, a man waiting for the train near the railway line. Suddenly, a boa constrictor attacking the victim, holding in its powerful coils. But here is a tiger hurling itself against the huge reptile which which then also wraps the beast in its death grip. On the monstrous tangle comes the train. The tangled web is bloodily broken by the wheels of the train.” possibly from an issue of Domenica Del Corriere
Iraqi State Railways. Sign indicates it would connect to the “Orient Express” in Istanbul.
New Railway System
Inventors have for many years been working on what in known as a “single track” railway; that is, a system that would only have one traction rail and one overhead rail, the car to run beneath the two.
As long as the car was running on a straight track, all previous inventions seemed to do very well, but when curves were reached trouble began on account of the action of centrifugal force. As a consequence, they have been failures.
W,H, Boynton of Morris Park N.Y., is the inventor of a railway system that seems to overcome this great objection..
Still delayed along the 2000 mile Eastern Front was the long-expected summer offensive. Soviet airmen, however, were not idle. In repeated air assaults they battered Nazi-held rail centers, like the one in Bryansk, where connecting lines lead north to Smolensk and south to Kharkov. Pictured here is a low-level strafing attack by a flight of twin-engined DB-3A medium bombers swooping down over a Nazi rail point jammed with Axis troops and supplies moving to the front.
Rail map of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway. The Ottawa Free Trader., Ottawa, IL. August 08, 1885
A spoof article written in the December issue of Locomotive Engineering, A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock, by Eli Gilderfluke
The scope of this elaborate joke can be seen in the various components described below, Ive highlighted just a few of the many jokes, not to mention, the machine in the engraving would not be able to move thanks to the configuration of the wheels (52-57). Continue reading “Gilderfluke Perfected Locomotive, 1897”
Main Concourse, looking south, towards the ticket offices Continue reading “Interior of Grand Central Terminal”
Opened in 1913, Grand Central Terminal covers 48 acres, and has 44 platforms, servicing 56 tracks, 30 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower. One track secretly goes to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
New Union Station, Kansas City, Mo.
Cost of Building $6,000,000.00.
Cost of Terminal $44,000,000.00.
From Drawing by Teachener-Bartberger Eng. Co. Kansas City, Mo.
Union Station made headlines on June 17, 1933, as four lawmen were gunned down by gang members attempting to free captured fugitive Frank Nash. Nash was also killed in the gun battle. The “Kansas City Massacre” highlighted the lawlessness of Kansas City under the Pendergast Machine and resulted in the arming of all FBI agents. (Wikipedia)