#TransitTuesday

[walkingdetroit]

Yesterday on #TransitTuesday I missed my bus stop, but serendipitously ended up here. ✨ 🎨

[hagleyvault]

Next stop, #TransitTuesday. This photograph shows New York City’s 14th St. elevated line station, and was taken to document the work of Ward and Gow, a New York advertising agency credited as being among the first firms to systematize advertising in New York’s transit network stations and trains.

This photograph was included in an album compiled by the company in 1910. Each of the fifteen images in the album includes a location in the lower right side of the image and, since many of the advertisements are for theater or vaudeville shows, for which Ward and Gow also did advertising, it is possible to date some of these images within a month's time. 

To view other photographs from Hagley Library’s Ward and Gow elevated railway and subway advertising album (Accession 1995.243), click here to view its page in our Digital Archive.

[projex]

Transit Tuesday - #transittuesday 20” wheels | sport aero kit | Colour coded We are sure @lennythegeeza would approve #ford #forduk #transit #fordtransit #rts #alloywheels #projexuk #projexdesignuk #bristol (at Projex Design UK - Automotive Customising Store)

[shorelinemotoring]

#TransformationTuesday and this Ford Transit that was transformed with a 2.5" @vancompass lift kit with Fox shocks, 17" @methodracewheels MR701's wrapped in @toyotires and a #PedalBox performance upgrade, night and day if you ask us! ⬅️• • • • • • • • • • #shorelinemotoring #customcars #customvans #ford #transit #fordtransit #liftedtransit #liftedvan #vancompass #foxshocks #method #customwheels #methodracewheels #toyotires #toyo #tagtoyo #PedalBoxequipped #transittuesday #allblackeverything #overland #overlanding #huntingtonbeach #newportbeach #socal #orangecounty #california #vanlife #lifted (at Huntington Beach, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0SRl3qlD35/?igshid=2aocuu8k72v1

[outdoor-wanderlust]

Enjoyed an awesome weekend of camping in West Virginia with some good friends. Once we get our bug screens for the van then we’ll be super stoked. Bugs were insane and a challenge to keep out of the van. Happy #transittuesday (at Kanawha State Forest)

[legrandphoto]

Sunset photos are great. Sunset photos with the transit are better . . . #transittuesday #ford #fordtransit #transit #transit350 #transitwagon #vanlife #transitvan #sunset #floridasunset #igersjax #igers_staugustine #lovefl #toamflorida (at Crescent Beach, Florida)

[ciophoto]

Day 84 of 365 - Transit Tuesday. You meet the most interesting people on a bus, try transit. #transittuesday #trytransit #365blackandwhitechallenge #hamptonroadstransit #hrt @hamptonroadstransit #hamptonroads #transit

[caitsith810]

DASH Alexandria Transit Company 2004(?)Orion V 77. #virginia #alexandria #alexandriava #dash #dashalexandriatransitcompany #drivingalexandriasafelyhome #bus #transit #transportation #orion #orionv #ig_va #ig_virginia #ig_alexandria #igdc #ig_washingtondc #exposeddc #nationscapital #mydccool #walkwithlocals #canon #canon7dmarkii #dmv #dmvarea #dcmarylandvirginia #publictransit #masstransit #transittuesday (at Braddock Road Metro, Alexandria) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn3MAZ4Fyvm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tn1y81k1vqyi

[oldnewyorkpictures]

Here is the once classy/glassy entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge station of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line. Originally known as Brooklyn Bridge, and later as Brooklyn Bridge—Worth Street, the station was connected to the BMT Nassau Line in 1914, a year after the Chambers Street station was completed.⠀ .⠀ The entrances and exits to the original subway stations were structures with either doomed (entrance) or peaked (exit) roofs, known as kiosks. They were modeled after the structures found on the earliest Metro lines in Budapest, Hungary. Constructed of glass and cast metal, they were all torn down by the late 1960s. (Their hulking presence tended to block sightlines for motorists.) In 1986 a replica of one of the original kiosks was reinstalled at the Astor Place Station.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 📸: unknown⠀ ca. 1910⠀ via @nypl⠀ #urbanarchive #nychistory #transithistory #transittuesday #brooklynbridgecityhallstation #kiosks #glass #castmetal #IRT #subwaystation #railfan ⠀ Join the Urban Archive beta 📱 [link in bio] via ✨ @padgram ✨(http://dl.padgram.com) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf_THvyjs21/

[hagleyvault]

We’re full of hot air this #TransitTuesday as we depart on an airship voyage, made easy by Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei (German Zeppelin Transport Company). Around the time that this ca. 1936 pamphlet was published, the company was an operator of commercial transatlantic zeppelin flights, created out of a struggle for control over the symbolic use of the zeppelin in Nazi Germany. 

Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei was created by Hermann Göring to give the Nazi government greater control over zeppelin operations and to make use of them for propaganda purposes. The company replaced Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft (German Airship Transportation Corporation, Ltd.), which was run by Hugo Eckener (1868-1954), a German opponent of the Nazis who had insisted on marketing his zeppelins as a symbol of global good will and international cooperation, rather than as an icon of nationalist superiority. While Eckner was appointed as chairman of the new company, it was little more than an honorary title, with actual operations in the hands of company director director, Ernst Lehmann (1886-1937), a well-known Nazi supporter.

Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei’s most famous zeppelin was the LZ 129 Hindenburg; brochures for the doomed zeppelin can be seen in this pamphlet. The Hindenburg disastrously ignited in May 1937 while attempting to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing 36 people on board, including Ernst Lehmann. The company suspended operations for a year following the disaster, though attempts to relaunch in 1938 were cut short with the outbreak of World War II.

Airship Voyages Made Easy is part of the Hagley Library’s collection of Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession 20100108.ZTV). You can view it in full, as well as other material from this collection, by clicking here to visit the collection’s page in our Digital Archive.

[renegadewhohaditmade]

I declare it #TransitTuesday. And therefore I need to remind you all of this gem of bromance between @amnthewilderness & @boboxblood during the #10yearsintransit tour earlier this year. 2016 may have sucked but it did give us these sweet dance moves and Bobby's exceptional shredding 💜🎶 #musicstheonlythingthatmakessenseanymore (at Starland Ballroom)

[top-form-fitness]

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Grabbing a quick #subway workout ... never an excuse to miss a training session! Can't make it to the gym? Maybe you're not going to bust out a workout in the middle of your office workplace or on the bus, but the point is you can get in a decent, brief and effective workout almost anywhere with minimal equipment. #transitTuesday #TTC #TTCtuesday #subwayworkout #trainhardTuesday (at Summerhill (TTC))

[vvtransit]

Our community on the move. You're looking at VVTA Bus 817, a 2016 Eldorado Axess, westbound Bear Valley Road in front of Victor Valley College. #TransitTuesday (at Victor Valley College)

[oldnewyorkpictures]

Check out these two photographs of the same event taken from opposite angles. Placed together, they really create a more complete picture of the train accident of September 11, 1905. (photos via @brooklynhistory and @nypl)⠀ .⠀ At a few minutes after 7 a.m., a downtown-bound train on the Ninth Avenue El plunged from the tracks at the corner of 53rd Street, ultimately killing 13 and injuring 48, in what was then the worst subway accident in city history. ⠀ .⠀ The wreck occurred at the point where downtown-bound Ninth and Sixth Avenue tracks diverged, with Sixth Avenue trains making a 90 degree turn East along 53rd Street. Ordinarily, the approaching downtown train would display a placard indicating to the towerman whether to activate the switch for the curve. In this case a miscommunication between the motorman and the towerman (who may not have been at his post) sent the train into the curve at more than three times its speed limit. The motorman braked, but was unable to prevent two cars from careening over the edge of the trestle. One car slammed into the ground while the other came to rest partially suspended by the second floor window of no. 798 Ninth Avenue. The New York Times described the scene:⠀ .⠀ “The third car of the train, hurled forward by the weight of those behind it, was shoved over the elevated structure and its forward end was forced through the window of the apartment of Mrs. James G. Crowe, who lives above the drug store. The car rocked for a moment and seemed as if about to fall into the street. Then it settled, its forward end held by the sill of the window and the fire escape, and hung suspended like a bridge across the street. The frantic passengers clambered out of the windows and along the roof into the apartments of Mrs. Crowe, and thence to the street.”⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 📸 #1: Eugene Armbruster/ 1905/@brooklynhistory⠀ 📸 #2: Gustave Scholer/ 1905/@nypl⠀ #urbanarchive #nychistory #hellskitchen #trainaccident #transittuesday #transportationhistory #elevatedtrail ⠀ Join the Urban Archive beta 📱 [link in bio] via ✨ @padgram ✨(http://dl.padgram.com) https://www.instagram.com/p/BelIv0InGdN/

[hagleyvault]

This #TransitTuesday has us pulling in to a train station to be, on the grounds of a train station that was. These photographs of the construction site of Chicago’s Union Station were taken on this day, June 2, in 1919, looking north and northeast from the site’s southwestern corner at the intersection of Clinton and Jackson Streets in Chicago's downtown-adjacent neighborhood of West Loop Gate. They were taken by Frank M. Hallenbeck (1874-1933), a Chicago photographer with a studio on South Dearborn Street, about a mile and a half away from the site.

The station replaced the first Union Station, built in 1881. Construction on site you see here was finally completed in 1925. At the photograph’s left, you can see the offices of Graham, Anderson, Probst, & White, who assumed responsibility for the site after the death of the structure’s first architect, Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912). The new firm was founded after Burnham’s death by Ernest Graham (1868-1936), Burnham’s former partner in the prominent architectural firm of D. H. Burnham & Co. Today, the station stands as fourth-busiest rail terminal in the United States.

This photograph is part of the Hagley Library’s Pennsylvania Railroad negative collection (Accession 1993.300), which also contains a significant number of other materials documenting the design and construction of Chicago Union Station. Other photographic material in the collection includes additional notable sites along the Pennsylvania Railroad’s lines of service. This collection of over 5,300 images has been digitized; to find it on our Digital Archive, just click here.