Amtrak plans to meet extra demand Jan 20 - 23. Maybe it is becoming more nimble ?
http://media.amtrak.com/2016/12/amtrak-offers-increased-service-convenient-transportation-inauguration-activities/
Maybe political correctness Trumps the likely demand.
Pre-inaugural happening
http://specialcollection.dotlibrary.dot.gov/Document?db=DOT-RAILROAD&query=(select+3521)
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
As I recall, a powerhouse in the area also had a great problem. It was posited by some that the departing party was scorching the earth before going?
Johnny
President-elect Eisenhower on his train from New York to Washington on January 18, 1953, and newly former President Truman soon after.
The hat business must have been good back then.
Remember? It was JFK who almost singlehandedly blighted the hat business with his failure to wear one. (He got the blame from the industry, anyway.) Whatever one thinks of hats -- which have been making a modest comeback in recent years -- I like them better than the caps that have largely replaced them. (And that so few men have been instructed to remove in public indoors settings such as restaurants, even funeral parlors!)
dakotafred Remember? It was JFK who almost singlehandedly blighted the hat business with his failure to wear one. (He got the blame from the industry, anyway.) Whatever one thinks of hats -- which have been making a modest comeback in recent years -- I like them better than the caps that have largely replaced them. (And that so few men have been instructed to remove in public indoors settings such as restaurants, even funeral parlors!)
I commanded that all students remove hats, caps, visors, scarves, etc. in my class. They did.
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
Ask not what your hat can do for you
Trust wans for the right photos (and other good stuff) at the right time. You'll notice JFK can't bring himself to actually put the hat on his head! Or maybe he thought it was more for hand protection, like gloves?
Schlimm, what about your Orthodox Jewish mail students with their yarmulkas? Or did not you have such students?
Somewhere there is a picture of JFK at a ball game wearing a hat. By the way, I wear one every day, a nice black felt one with a button of a beer cask on the band. I can't believe how warm it makes me in the winter. For example, I live in Canada which I guess youv'e heard can get pretty cold in the winter. I don't even own a sweater, much less long johns on account I wear a hat. I do take it off in elevators with ladies present.
54light15 Somewhere there is a picture of JFK at a ball game wearing a hat. By the way, I wear one every day, a nice black felt one with a button of a beer cask on the band. I can't believe how warm it makes me in the winter. For example, I live in Canada which I guess you're heard can get pretty cold in the winter. I don't even own a sweater, much less long johns on account I wear a hat. I do take it off in elevators with ladies present.
Somewhere there is a picture of JFK at a ball game wearing a hat. By the way, I wear one every day, a nice black felt one with a button of a beer cask on the band. I can't believe how warm it makes me in the winter. For example, I live in Canada which I guess you're heard can get pretty cold in the winter. I don't even own a sweater, much less long johns on account I wear a hat. I do take it off in elevators with ladies present.
54light has caught the genius of hats. Most body heat, I've read, escapes through the top of the head. Hats put a lid on it.
Yeah, JFK wore the obligatory top hat at his inauguration. I suspect even wans will be up against it finding pics of him wearing hats otherwise.
54light15 JFK at a ball game
JFK at a ball game
Wans: I am speechless.
The Reading bulletin schedule was a nice RAILROAD tidbit from 1961. I guess the rest of the thread is lost among hats.
Hey, bro, we go with the flow around here.
ya know, there's so few pictures of JFK wearing a hat, but there is not a single one of FDR dancing. Must have been a very sad man.
FDR did dance with Eleanor at least once.
https://books.google.com/books?id=1oNRI4ClbW4C&pg=PA28&dq=%22feeling+sorry+for+eleanor%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq5Puit5rRAhVFfiYKHYV6A0cQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%22feeling%20sorry%20for%20eleanor%22&f=false
Awesome find, Wanswheel! I like how Harry is riding in a 1961 Chrysler Imperial when his own car (I was told) was a humble Dodge. Says a lot about him. Those two photographic Cadillacs look like they could each easily mount a pair of Lewis guns.
Henry Ford II with a gift for the president, the first-built ’46 Ford. Daughter Margaret drove it. Harry was partial to Chryslers.
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/automotive-history-the-cars-of-president-harry-s-truman/
54light15 ya know, there's so few pictures of JFK wearing a hat, but there is not a single one of FDR dancing. Must have been a very sad man.
ya don't say
I remember the PRR train falling through the station floor. I wanted to go down and look at it, but my mother wouldn;t agree. I didn't understand at the time, I was in grade school.
blue streak 1 Amtrak plans to meet extra demand Jan 20 - 23. Maybe it is becoming more nimble ? http://media.amtrak.com/2016/12/amtrak-offers-increased-service-convenient-transportation-inauguration-activities/
I find it interesting that Amtrak can add cars to the regionals as well as get extra runs out of both regionals and the Acelas when they are servicing a political event in Washington. Yet when someone suggests additional service elsewhere, it gets shot down over equipment shortages.
Granted, Superliners and P-42's may be a problem; but it seems they are a one priority organization!
Be fair. Amtrak does provide lots of extra service on the NEC Thanksgiving. Good rehearsal for the Inauguration.
Dinner at Union Station is on the schedule of inaugural events.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/schedule-of-inaugural-events
Nice- TR was speaking from the back of a train. A heckler shouted "I vote democrat!"
TR said- "Why do you do that?"
Man said, "Because my father was a democrat and my grandfather was a democrat.'
TR said- "If your father was a jackass and your grandfather was a jackass, what would that make you?"
Man- "A Republican!"
Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.