Ho! Ho! Ho! Sounds like Santa recognized three of his friends on a corner in downtown Philadelphia.
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Ok, so someone has decided that there are to be no ship photos in the Diner!
Kiwirails Aratere heading north up the Tory ChannelâŚ
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âŚand the ex-New Zealand Government Railways, TSS Earnslaw.
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All,that need them, Kia Kaha.
Cheers, the Bear. 
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Good morning, diners. I imagine the flagging will be rampant today.
My daughters were five-, seven-, and nine-years-old when we took them on their first cruise. This old liner left from New Orleans, so we were able to take transit to the dock and get on.
We are babysitting a neighborâs dog and I just got back from walking both dogs. One dog to walk â piece of cake. Two dogs to walk â ten times the work.
Have a great day, everyone.
Southern Railroadâs headquarters in Atlanta:
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Offices of the New York Central Railroad:
âCommodoreâ Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794 - 1877):
After the 1869-70 amalgamation of railroads in New York, he built Grand Central Depot in 1871:
Here were located the new and combined offices of his New York Central & Hudson River Railroad and his New-York & Harlem Railroad. Also using GCD was the New York & New Haven Railroad, which he did not control.
The Depot and its offices were later rebuilt and enlarged (though ruined in appearance) to become Grand Central Station (1900-1910) :
The NYCâs offices remained located inside the new (and third) Grand Central Terminal in 1913:
In 1927 the offices of the NYC moved into their stunning new skyscraper over the north end of the Terminal astride Park Avenue:
Main corridor of the New York Central Building:
Elevator in the NYC building:
ceiling of the elevator:
Now called the Helmsley Building (!), itâs seen looking south:
Finally, to my mind, the perfect icing on this remarkable cake is the 1869 statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt by Ernst Plassmann that originally stood outside the NYCâs West Side freight house. I think the statue captures the powerful personality of this amazing 19th century businessman and visionary.
The Pennsylvania Railroad may have indeed been âThe Standard Railroad of the Worldâ, but to my mind, the New York Central was a class act and the classiest railroad in every wayâincluding building a headquarters truly worthy of the Railroad and its great hometown.
Finally, hereâs the Commodore when he was younger and not yet even thinking of railroads:
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That building behind the newest Grand Central will always be the PanAm building in my mind.
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Good morning from the wet West where it is 4c.
Ship haters, please donât look at the ship in this photo, pretend itâs not there. This is just a photo of some railcars being pushed by a loco,
David I am not exactly sure of the year off the top of my head but I think it was 1900. Our families genealogy has been extensively done by a relative and I do have the name of the ship and the exact day Grandpa arrived in North America. I will try and find the info. After reading about the ship I had looked it up and found out about its rather short career. 
There was a photo of it and if I recall, it looked more like a freighter that also carried passengers.
OH OH!!!
How did that sneak in? Another photo of some pesky marine traffic. NOPE! I see some CN railcars just off her bow on shore. 
All the best to all.
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Canât show the Carrier Princess without a nod to Boomer and his cat Dusty!
Boomer has inspired my modeling in more ways than I can count.
Another nod to the Lansdowne whose contributions to the railroad transportation growth cannot be ignored:
Lansdowne by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
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So, if you all want to go down the slippery slope of having all this ship nonsense, then I think golf should be allowed. And since the golf is on a ship, I donât wanna hear no complaints:
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The youngest and largest of the class. Mauritania, Lusitania and Aquitania. Mauritania, Titanic and Lusitania reproduction postcards are hanging above my head right now.
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Thereâs literally a painting of the Queen Mary hanging in my dining room above a 1:24 scale model of the 4-4-0 American type âGeneralâ locomotive of ACW fame.
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They need to get over themselves as was recently pointed in my direction . Or maybe weâre going to have to have steam model railroader and diesel model railroader the way Lionel and American Flyer enthusiasts were cast off in the 80âs? Because at the rate things are going with all the magazines shrinking every year there may come a day very soon when everything gets recombined back into a single publication. Best to get accustomed to that idea before it becomes a reality.
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Good morning all!
It was a brisk -5°F on my way into work today, definitely getting into the winter season up here!
I picked up a publication by Maine 2 Footer Quarterly on HOn30 locomotives, it seems to focus mostly on the Forneys they used up there but should be an interesting read and useful for my current projects.
Almost a decade ago I had the pleasure of crossing lake Michigan on the SS Badger - sister ship to the SS Spartan which was previously posted. Afaik as well as being the last commercial coal fired ship on the lakes, itâs the only ferry which takes 18 wheelers on the lakes.
As far as great lakes railroad car ferries go though, I always enjoyed this photo of
Ann Arbor Car Ferry No. 4, following a loading incident in 1909.
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At least they were in the shallows!
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âNonsenseâ?
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