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Minggu, 05 April 2015
hardly believable, still in one piece though barely together
in North Dakota, photo by Rick Craig
Found on https://www.facebook.com/trenesautobusesbarcosavionesabandonados?fref=nf
Selasa, 31 Maret 2015
Minggu, 29 Maret 2015
I just learned of the Army Medical Department Museum, at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Texas
Vehicles, including field ambulances, hospital trains and aircraft showing the history of medical evacuation and treatment of the wounded in transit from 1775 to present.
http://www.history.army.mil/news/2015/150300a_spurgeonNeelAward.html
Recently acquired artifacts contributed to the Museum through the Foundation are a 1955 Willys MD-A, M170 Front Line Ambulance, an H13 D Model (Korean War) helicopter, and a UH1 Huey from the early Vietnam War.
1953 US Army Medical Services car
For more: http://ameddmuseum.amedd.army.mil/gallery/vehicles.html
The original U.S. Army Medical Museum was founded as a research facility in Washington, D.C., in 1862. Today, the institution is known as the National Museum of Health and Medicine of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In 1920, our Museum was re-established at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, with the Medical Field Service School. In 1946, the School and Museum were transferred to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. In 1955, the Museum received its designation as the U.S. Army Medical Department Museum from the Surgeon General of the Army.
The details of how the wounded were moved, from horse drawn wagons, then trains, through Jeeps to helicopters are very well presented along with genuine examples of many types of military ambulance transportation. Included is a hospital railroad car built in the 1950s and actively used in Korea. This car, which is remarkably well preserved, represents the final evolution of military medical transportation by rail. By the 1960s just about all injured troops were being moved by specially equipped road vehicles, helicopters and jet airliners.
http://www.txtransportationmuseum.org/history-rr-military.php
Kamis, 19 Maret 2015
Selasa, 17 Maret 2015
Kamis, 12 Maret 2015
rail inspectors were outfitted with Chevys, Fords, etc... the company President, though, he went full force and got a Caddy limo
New Haven Railroads lines managing director, Pat McGinnis.
Notice the vanity plates with his initials... he mush have been ridiculously wealthy
Found on https://www.facebook.com/HeritageRailway and photos from https://www.flickr.com/photos/that_chrysler_guy/4925148772/in/photostream/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_New_Haven_and_Hartford_Railroad
The New Haven Railroad operated in New England from 1872 to 1968, dominating the region's rail traffic for the first half of the 20th century. By 1912, the New Haven practically monopolized traffic in a wide swath from Boston to New York City.
The line went bankrupt in 1935, was reorganized and reduced in scope, went bankrupt again in 1961, and in 1969 was merged into the Penn Central system, which itself went bankrupt.
A reorganization was completed on September 18, 1947. Frederic C. Dumaine, Sr. and others, including Patrick B. McGinnis (1904-1973), gained control in 1948.
Frederic C. Dumaine, Jr. took over after his father's death in 1951 and immediately set about restoring the condition of the railroad and the morale of the employees. In 1953, control passed from the preferred stockholders to the common stockholders.
A proxy fight then ensued between McGinnis and incumbent president Dumaine; McGinnis emerged as the victor and sought to maximize revenue for shareholders.
To do this, he deferred maintenance and ordered experimental lightweight trains for Boston-New York service. Another McGinnis contribution was the imposition of parking charges at stations.
Hurricanes in 1955 washed out a number of important lines. Upon McGinnis' departure for the B&M in 1956, auditors found the NH earnings for 1955 were less than half of what McGinnis had claimed.
McGinnis' financial dealings ultimately culminated in a prison sentence for receiving kickbacks on the sale of B&M's streamlined passenger cars, ending his career in railroading.
Minggu, 01 Maret 2015
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