I 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
Fallen Flag Railroad Photos
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#12There 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.
Can you elaborate?
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#13Amazing dedication. This is what the internet is for!
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#14Is "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
I was confused too. I found this:
> The term "Fallen Flags" describes those railroads whose corporate names have been dissolved through merger, bankruptcy, or liquidation. At one time the United States boasted nearly 140 Class I's.
https://www.american-rails.com/fallen-flags.html
OK great, but what's a "Class I"?
> In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, Class II, or Class III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB). The STB's current definition of a Class I railroad was set in 1992, that being any carrier earning annual revenue greater than $250 million. This has since been adjusted for inflation and most recently set to $504,803,294 in 2019.
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#15I 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
Then you'll love this! https://www.vintagestreetlights.com/ https://www.deviantart.com/tpirman1982/art/Celebrating-10-Ye... https://www.angelfire.com/planet/tpirman1982/index.html
I think Douglas Self's (yes, that Douglas Self!) museum websites probably are of interest too:
http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm
and
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#16Nice to see that BNSF 4723 still has the Microsoft Train Simulator Sticker[1] in 2022. :)
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#17Can somebody put this on the Internet Archive?
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#18Can somebody put this on the Internet Archive?
On its way via ArchiveBot:
http://archivebot.com/ https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot
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#19Is "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
The audience of the site are railfans - and these terms are common in the jargon of that hobby. We don't define cpu on pages about speculative execution, do we?
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#20There 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.
The merger of NYC and the Pennsylvania - the Penn Central - was the biggest bankruptcy in US history before Enron. The Wreck of the PennCentral is a great business book on why.