The truly enormous express locomotive shown in the accompanying illustration represents the latest effort of one of our leading railroads to keep pace with the ever-growing demands of its express passenger service. This company has just received the new locomotive from the shops, and placed it in...
Then nothing was done for almost a dozen years and palm trees grew out of the smokestacks of the locomotives left behind by de Lesseps, until finally in the year 1902 the United States government bought the rights of the bankrupt French concern. Thereupon Washington and the Republic of Colom...
Hadley Mendelsohn is the co-host and executive producer of the podcastDark House. When she's not busy writing about interiors, you can find her scouring vintage stores, reading, researching ghost stories, or stumbling about because she probably lost her glasses again. Along with interior design,...
If you're not interested in Euro Truck's open-world freedom, perhaps you'd rather ride the rails with Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019. This title contains 130 locomotives out of the box, six routes to traverse, and regional bundles for that local flair. Best of all, Trainz supports the $...
But here Chesbrough’s unique history helped him come up with an alternate scenario, reminding him of a tool he had seen as a young man working the railway: the jackscrew, a device used to lift multiton locomotives onto the tracks. If you couldn’t dig down to create a proper grade ...
Ever since people claim to have seen his spirit and even a dark figure walking between the seats on the balcony. 87. The Clock House, Dorking The oldest part of the Clock House was built in the 12th century, it connects via a supposedly haunted panelled corridor to the Georgian part of...
Josette Day is Belle, who ends up imprisoned in the Beast’s castle to work off a debt accrued by her father. What follows is an intricate fairy tale of deception and magic, built around the luminous ingenuity of Cocteau’s visual effects. Yet the most magical thing about it is the ...
or curiosities paraded in Barnum and Bailey’s Circus. One of the cars that helped shift this pervasive image was the Curved Dash Oldsmobile, introduced in 1901: the first ever mass produced, more affordable automobile. However, only 19,000 were built, and it wasn’t very powerful. Further...
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Until the 19th century, India - like most places around the world - operated on very localized times, which were often different not just from city to city, but from village to village. But playing a key role in the background was East India Company, a ruthless and powerful British-owned...