the ships were built for the C and O railroad who probably donated old, damaged, obsolete, or in need of repair railcars, knowing they'd be scrapped afterward
Sunday, September 06, 2026
wood refrigerator railcars and other cargo railcars were used as sacrificial breakwaters when launching ships from the Manitouc shipyards to prevent the buildings on the next pier from being destroyed by the wave
How to avoid the Chicago railyards... put the trains on ferrys and take them across the lake, and the SS Badger is the last of the coal fired steam engine powered ships that were built to do that, which makes it part of US Highway 10, and M-90, and a National Historic Landmark (thank you Brad!)
The trains hauled cargo, like Wisconsin dairy, beer, and meat, (Remember, Green Bay Packers were named for the meat packers!) lumber, paper, tractors and Nash cars across the lake, and in the other direction, Michigan produce, chemicals, salt, car parts, and vehicles
a street car elevator for getting cars to and from the 2nd floor paint shop, from a 1902 book/magazine "Railway Master Mechainic"
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=pratt+and+whitney
a compressed air powered fan, for a shop or garage... very cool!
measuring wear on train wheels
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Railway_Master_Mechanic/U0EOAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA5-PA263&printsec=frontcover&fbclid=IwY2xjawUJ1JVwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMXVubnpTWncwd05BRDFjZ3FzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEei0h3xj1HH4Mb9OPFeTCSbZaL3l6WS0ZYEY6I0bw0VGnRtDTqScp1xlEdvoI_aem_MwzLff3STifYaM9tD603TQ
Happy MUTTSversary! On this day in 1994, Patrick McDonnell published the first-ever MUTTS comic strip. It features Ozzie and Earl (a character inspired by Patrick's own beloved dog Earl), coming "home."
I collected the first 20 years of annual collections, they are wonderful
Saturday, September 05, 2026
there's no one source of info that can be interesting... and things can be found in the strangest places that are often random, and this post is an example of the cool things I love to discover, and research into, that makes a information and historical connection surprise, like the one between neon signs and cars that you probably would never guess
The inventor of neon signs and neon lighting, was French engineer and chemist Georges Claude, who 1st demonstrated the glowing red-orange neon tube publicly at the Paris Motor Show in December 1910.
After a successful display at the Paris Art Show in 1910, Claude conceived the idea of bending glass tubing in order to form letters, developing the first neon sign.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-neon-lights/
Neon signs weren’t introduced to the US until the 1920s when Earle Anthony is believed to be the first US business owner to use neon signage – in 1923, he ordered two signs reading ‘Packard’ to be used by two car dealerships in Los Angeles.
Neon sign usage quickly caught on after this throughout the rest of the country.
In 1924, the first neon sign was installed in New York’s Times Square advertising automaker Willys-Overland.
In 1924, the first neon sign was installed in New York’s Times Square advertising automaker Willys-Overland.
the coincidence that Neon Signs were given a public debut at a Motor Show, then that the 1st in the USA were for a Packard dealership, and the 1st in Times Square were for Willys Overland? Amazing
that random strange place that I learned of this in?
An artist's book that I got at Comic Con, Ryan Claytor: One Bite at a Time, 20 Years of Elephant Eater Comics
and there are OBVIOUS reasons that this book is an Eisner Award nominee, and I can't imagine what some other book had that would outshine this in the award competition, this book is an outstanding example of fantastic publishing, overlays, foldouts, comfortable exterior fabric, heavy paper pages, great illustrations.
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