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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessie_(mascot)
Chessie was a popular cat character used as a symbol of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Derived from an etching by Viennese artist Guido Gruenwald, the image first appeared in a black and white advertisement in the September 1933 issue of Fortune magazine with the slogan "Sleep Like a Kitten."
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Chessie was a popular cat character used as a symbol of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Derived from an etching by Viennese artist Guido Gruenwald, the image first appeared in a black and white advertisement in the September 1933 issue of Fortune magazine with the slogan "Sleep Like a Kitten."
For different values of "kitten"...
Zeph ©
sharra . Tali and kittehs © me.http://couchkitties.comicgenesis.com/
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https://img1.etsystatic.com/039/0/8.....32069_kpah.jpg Kitties go to war. The kittens are Nip and Tuck. Why not just go all out" Dieu " and " Mon droit " while they are at it? Railroads indeed. Join the Grangers!
i remember the printed c&o time tables. every railroad printed their own, and we had a whole display case of all the different ones in the u.s. when i used to hang out down at the station where my dad worked. these printed public timetables often had a photo or a painting besides a graphic company logo on the outside, and a system map on the back.
there was also a book that was issued to every place that sole tickets, that was called the guide and everyone simply referred to it as 'the bible', that had every schedule of every scheduled passenger service in the country. this was before amtrak and long before most people knew what a computer was, let alone had one.
this thing was as thick as a large city's phone book. about the same size and as heavy. and it was essential, when railroads still ran their own passenger trains, which the i.c.c. wouldn't let them stop doing, as such service was vital to many small communities, in an era when not yet everyone outside of a city had a car nor needed to. (and no one in or near any kind of real city needed one at all).
and mergers were still a big deal. too big to fail was against a law called the sherman anti-trust act. so it was a big deal when the c&o combined with the b&o to become the chessie system in the early to mid 60s. a bigger deal was the pensy new york central merger, with the name pen central. and people didn't yet in those days feel they had to obscure corporate logos (and other more pertinent data) on freight cars with their name in bright spray paint.
steam was mostly gone on mainline railroads in the u.s by the mid 50s, though there were still a few notable hold outs, and a lot of back woods short lines.
there was so little else that was good about the 1950s, that the railroads would probably still be my favorite memory of them, even if i hadn't grown up with them being a major part of my life, and my major interest before there was much of anything else to become one.
there was also a book that was issued to every place that sole tickets, that was called the guide and everyone simply referred to it as 'the bible', that had every schedule of every scheduled passenger service in the country. this was before amtrak and long before most people knew what a computer was, let alone had one.
this thing was as thick as a large city's phone book. about the same size and as heavy. and it was essential, when railroads still ran their own passenger trains, which the i.c.c. wouldn't let them stop doing, as such service was vital to many small communities, in an era when not yet everyone outside of a city had a car nor needed to. (and no one in or near any kind of real city needed one at all).
and mergers were still a big deal. too big to fail was against a law called the sherman anti-trust act. so it was a big deal when the c&o combined with the b&o to become the chessie system in the early to mid 60s. a bigger deal was the pensy new york central merger, with the name pen central. and people didn't yet in those days feel they had to obscure corporate logos (and other more pertinent data) on freight cars with their name in bright spray paint.
steam was mostly gone on mainline railroads in the u.s by the mid 50s, though there were still a few notable hold outs, and a lot of back woods short lines.
there was so little else that was good about the 1950s, that the railroads would probably still be my favorite memory of them, even if i hadn't grown up with them being a major part of my life, and my major interest before there was much of anything else to become one.
Thirty years ago, I spent the night with my girlfriend in her apartment in a former Hotel in New London, Connecticut. Aside from the noise that we were making, every time a train went by or stopped at the station -- a half-block away -- the whole building shook from the attic to the sub-basement.
Did the Earth move for you?
Bet your ass it did!
Did the Earth move for you?
Bet your ass it did!
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