seen from United States
seen from Italy
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Georgia
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Türkiye
seen from Sweden
seen from Türkiye
seen from Georgia
seen from United States
seen from Georgia
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Uzbekistan
seen from Spain
seen from Georgia
seen from United States
seen from China
In light of the recent popularity of my 1940 bank subway map, here is another slightly older c1938 bank subway map, this time courtesy of the New York Savings Bank with a lovely illustrated cover. The inside contains some detail about the length and ridership of the three systems and on how to determine the location of an address based on which avenue it is on. Notable is the still under construction Sixth Avenue Line between 59th Street and West 4th Street.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
what’s your favorite train (steam, electric, diesel)
I think I've answered similar questions to this before, but it's been a while so I might as well talk about it again!
Steam Locomotives:
Most people who follow me know about my obsession with LNER 4468 Mallard. Mallard is the current steam traction speed record holder. Are there chances other locomotives managed to go faster at some points? Sure. Were any of those officially recorded? No, and Mallard's record was, so that's the one that stands. 126 mph was the maximum speed. Mallard is also exceptionally beautiful and has incredible streamlining.
Strasburg #90, a beloved childhood friend of mine I grew up going to see every spring/summer as a kid. In 2022, she became the first steam locomotive I ever drove, and it was the most fulfilling experience of my life. Having that experience for the first time with a dear friend was so much more meaningful than it would have been had it been another locomotive.
I'm also fond of New York Central Hudsons (bonus points for Dreyfuss streamlining), the Milwaukee Road's Atlantics, Pennsy K4s and G5s, the Norfolk and Western J Class Northerns, C&O 614 (also a Northern), Southern Pacific GS-4s...the list goes on and on. I've never met a steam locomotive I didn't like...though you'd never catch me driving a camelback.
Electric Locomotives:
This is generally something people know within a few minutes of meeting me, especially since the ita bag I take around is filled with pins of them - I have been utterly obsessed with the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 since I was a really little child. Normally I tend to do steam stuff, but the Art Deco Cyclops is my electric exception and I am so, so fond of them. Special shoutout to the prototype, OId Rivets, who I love so much I named an Eelektross after her. She's the only one without the welded, smooth streamlining, instead having a riveted body, hence her name. They were just the most perfect electric locomotives (except for the PCBs in the insulating oil in their transformers, which is why none of the preserved ones are operational).
Diesel Locomotives:
I'm not a big diesel person, so sorry to the people who are. They just don't usually capture me the way steam locomotives do - steam locomotives feel like they have souls to me in a way I don't feel like I can accurately put into words. That said, I do have one diesel I'm attached to - NJT 4100, a locomotive that's been running where she is since before the current operating agency she works for, New Jersey Transit, even existed. She's over 50 years old with no signs of slowing down. I affectionately refer to her as "The Old Fuck." I have a tag for when I have the great fortune to have an Old Fuck sighting here, but it's been a while since I last saw her in person. Luckily, there's Railroad Picture Archives, where I can keep tabs on any locomotive or other rolling stock I want. Since those photos go by the date they were taken, I can see when the most recent ones of The Old Fuck were taken, make sure she's still on the rails, and prepare to try to fight for her preservation whenever that time comes.
March 1929 issue of general interest, satire, and humor magazine Life focusing on New York City.
c. 1940 map of New York City’s 3 subway systems, the Interborough Rapid Transit, the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, and the Independent Subway System, provided by the Union Dime Savings Bank. This is just after the opening of the 6th Avenue Subway and demolition of the old 6th Avenue Elevated.
1935 sheet music for the song “I Lost my Heart in the Subway (When I Gave my Seat to You)” purportedly featured by the Boswell Sisters, though I could find no recordings made of it.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
1906 sheet music for the hit song “Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May” with words by J. J. Walker. The Walker in question is Beau Jimmy Walker, the flamboyant night mayor of new york city from 1926 to 1932. A tammany democrat, he was well liked, known for frequenting the many illicit bars and cabarets of the city with his showgirl mistress Betty Compton. His popularity remained high until a prolonged battle with Governor turned President Franklin D. Roosevelt over incredible amounts municipal corruption. Rather than be forcibly removed, he resigned and fled to Europe in 1932, obtaining a divorce from his wife Allie Walker to finally marry Compton.
1940 folding map put out by Hagstrom focusing on automobile routes in New York City and the many bridges and tunnels under the aegis of Robert Moses’ Triborough Bridge Authority. One of his many seats of power along with being parks commissioner and holding a number of other positions simultaneously at any given time, the TBA was a massive moneymaker thanks to all of the tolls coming in on their projects. The map displays the unique way-finding road signs for each major bridge in the top right corner.
Beautiful stylized art deco postcard sent in 1938 from the railroad post office on the inaugural journey of the new streamlined 20th Century Limited from New York to Chicago
