Yeah, 35 years after 1902 would put the date of the photo at 1937. Things were looking up about then but the "wreckage" was still everywhere. Then came WWII.
...and without a flagman walking ten yards ahead waving a pair of flags around and making noise to alert everyone and their horses that one of those contraptions was coming!
You mean like these? That's one of the Central's Triple-power engines, battery, third-rail, and diesel to charge batteries.
Yes, the Central did occasionally run a camouflaged shay down Manhattan's West Side. Interesting how humans assumed horses would be fooled by camouflaging a steamer. Gimme a break. LOL
That guy on the horse must be singing "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, I'm a long long way from home..." I'd watch those two on top of the train, though. They look like they're plotting something nasty...
Some shop guys with a spare boxcab carbody and a lot of spare time on their hands... That's just plain weird...
I know they didn't think they were fooling city officials in regard to the smoke ordinances that electrified both the major railroads' tunnels and the elevated. Weather protection for the head end brakeman? I hate to even imagine how hard it was to see forward from the cab. Now I feel guilty for helping hijack the thread. Here's something I'm glad nobody ever built in Tornado Alley.
"Autumn Gas Station in the Eastern Texas Thanksgiving, 1983." Robert McKenzie photo. Looks like it once was Diamond Shamrock.
Cities Service pumps (the trefoil logo)...this station must have closed before the change to CITGO in the mid-60s
Whoa, that Shell station is amazing. Even Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater has its problems with cantilevers. One of my brothers is a retired architect and we sometimes exchange pictures of structures and architectural details that never should have been built. Most recently I sent him a photo I'd taken of a nearby apartment building with a huge roof section covering the road in front of the main office that was deeply slanted back toward the main building just for wild architectural zing. He calculated the volume of rainwater per minute that the roof would carry in a storm, the water's weight in motion and its impact on the building. The architect had provided a "cricket" to divert the water, but it is woefully inadequate for the job.
I think that cantilever also tilts up. Plenty of drainage off the back, but I hate to think what happened when that water eventually caused the foundation to settle.
Near Killeen, Texas in the early 1940's, before the government decided the land could be better used for Fort Hood. The building is made from old advertising signs.
