Corpse Of The Week (2)
Mummified #corpse is finally laid to rest after 128 years on display in #Reading in #Pennsylvania
It was a red letter day in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 7th when Stoneman Willie was finally laid to rest. He gave a false name when he was arrested for pickpocketing in 1895, and died from kidney failure while languishing in the local jail.
Accidentally mummified by an undertaker who was experimenting with new embalming techniques, he has been prominently displayed in an open coffin in the…
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Lombard Street, Reading, Pennsylvania.
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Penn Central GP38 7859, RDG GP35 3655, PC GP40 3194 and PC SD35 6009 cross the Conemaugh River east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with an eastbound freight train on an early autumn day in 1976
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just had a conversation with the most adorable guy at work and he’s just passing through because life is unfair
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New crack ship just dropped. I'm calling it WAP. Wisconsin/Arizona/Pennsylvania. don't ask questions
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Vent to me about trains if ya like :3
YAY :D
So the Milwaukee Road was the First Railroad to use the use 3000 Volt DC power for any significant stretches of Electrification in 1915 (it was adopted by South African Railways in 1925, Cleveland Union Terminal (under the New York Central Railroad), the Soviet Union in 1930, the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1930, Italy in 1933, Brazil in 1935, Spain and Chile in 1945)
however the Primary mainline Electrification system United States would be 11,000 Volts 25 Hertz AC which was Adopted by the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1907 between Pelham and Stamford in New York (later all the way between Manhattan and New Haven CT), the Pennsylvania in 1915 between Philadelphia and Paoli (later the Entire PRR mainline between Washington DC and New York as well the entire Philadelphia Suburban Network), the Great Northern railroad in 1922 between Wenatchee and Skykomish (de-electrified in 1956), the Virginian Railroad in 1925 between Mullens and Roanoke (de-electrified in 1962), the Reading Railroad in 1928 for their Half of the Philadelphia Suburban Network, and very Briefly the Norfolk and Western had Electrified the Elkhorn grade with this system but de-electrified in 1940
@amtrak-official
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Hi if you haven't already I recommend blocking A LOT of political and specifically trump tags
He was just shot at moments ago and injured and the tankie posts are going to be terrible and mentally bad .
First of all thank you so much for the recommendation and encouraging/helping me look after my mental health, I do genuinely appreciate it anon 💞💞
Second of all
HEY
WHAT
FUCKING W H A T
IS THIS HOW IM GETTING MY NEWS FROM NOW ON???? THROUGH TUMBLR ANON????? ON G O D ? ? SOMEONE FUCKING DID IT SOMEONE ACTUALLY SHOT DONALD TRUMP!?
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The scrapple is frying at Reading
And drawing me out of my bedding
I boldly might question
Its strange composition
But taste that it's mostly a blessing
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Why did I think it'd be a good idea to put on my sad country playlist while I work
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RDG train, engine number 1700, engine type 2-8-2
Freight train; 31 cars, 30 MPH. Photographed: at Neshaminy Falls, Pa., October 19, 1930.
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