Fallen Flag Railroad Photos
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Fallen Flag Railroad Photos
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#2There are names there that were once thought to be too big to fail.
- The Pennsylvania Railroad, the Standard Railroad of the World.
- The New York Central Railroad, their main competitor.
- Railway Express Agency, the FedEx of its day.
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#3There are names there that were once thought to be too big to fail. - The Pennsylvania Railroad, the Standard Railroad of the World. - The New York Central Railroad, their main competitor. - Railway Express Agency, the FedEx of its day.
"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert...
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains."
And I heard that story and said 'pfft,
surely I can do better than that sucker.'"
There are now two vast and trunkless legs of stone in the desert.
one comically larger and more crumbled than the other.
Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
That's basically the story of the former Pan Am building, which sits right next door to and overshadows the former New York Central's Terminal building in Manhattan.
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#4There are names there that were once thought to be too big to fail. - The Pennsylvania Railroad, the Standard Railroad of the World. - The New York Central Railroad, their main competitor. - Railway Express Agency, the FedEx of its day.
If you want a sobering antidote to corporate hubris, read the Dow Jones Industrial Average for every year since it was founded.
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#5There are names there that were once thought to be too big to fail. - The Pennsylvania Railroad, the Standard Railroad of the World. - The New York Central Railroad, their main competitor. - Railway Express Agency, the FedEx of its day.
"I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert... 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains." And I heard that story and said 'pfft, surely I can do better than that sucker.'" There are now two vast and trunkless legs of stone in the desert. one comically larger and more crumbled than the other.…
The building of the mighty airline overshadowed the majestic terminal of the formerly mighty railway, but then the mighty airline itself faltered, and the building now belongs to almighty finance...
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#6There are names there that were once thought to be too big to fail. - The Pennsylvania Railroad, the Standard Railroad of the World. - The New York Central Railroad, their main competitor. - Railway Express Agency, the FedEx of its day.
> once thought to be too big to fail
Relevant: Bureau of Labor Statistics data for American railroad jobs from 1947 to today: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES4348200001?amp%25253bdata...
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#7There are names there that were once thought to be too big to fail. - The Pennsylvania Railroad, the Standard Railroad of the World. - The New York Central Railroad, their main competitor. - Railway Express Agency, the FedEx of its day.
"I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert... 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains." And I heard that story and said 'pfft, surely I can do better than that sucker.'" There are now two vast and trunkless legs of stone in the desert. one comically larger and more crumbled than the other.…
Yes. Corporate ego trip movies, circa 1950.
Pennsylvania Railroad's "Progress on the Rails".[1]
New York Central's "The Big Train", featuring the CEO.[2] He's lobbying for deregulation and less federal funding for airports and roads.
Both include sections on the data processing systems of 1950.
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#8I love websites like this. It’s an obsessive collection of information, neatly formatted. No JavaScript or elaborate backend systems. Just a plain information dense webpage. A reminder of what the web used to be
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#9Is "fallen flag" a phrase I should recognize? I realize the site is probably not for me, but I would have appreciated a paragraph explaining what is being presented here
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#10I love websites like this. It’s an obsessive collection of information, neatly formatted. No JavaScript or elaborate backend systems. Just a plain information dense webpage. A reminder of what the web used to be
> A reminder of what the web used to be
But this page still is here and is seemingly even being updated. So the web that used to be still is.