the milfwaukee road

"Ham" is short for "Hamtrak"

tough time to be a ballroom enjoyer right now

“wurlitzer” is the perfect name for a company that made Contraptions

vertigo! at the symphony

There's a video going viral in Chicago right now by a guy claiming large scale raids will start around 2AM in specific neighborhoods. It's BS. The person who posted it has a checkered history of false claims to try to gain followers and drum up business for a private security company he runs.

immaculate heart of mary except instead of the heart it's midland plate 45

I want to “John Henry” the laser cutter at work

Ground Fault Circus Interrupter

I AM A SLUT FOR RAINIER CHERRIES 🍒

when you do your makeup for green mill conditions and end up evoking ivan albright in the harsh light of the red line

a building that's all beat up and i dunno if this makes sense but it looks like a trouble maker. there's barbed wire atop the wall around the lot, to keep us out or perhaps to keep this awful bastard of a building in

gotta figure bad guys hang out here right, cacklin about stuff and eating apples with switchblades. smokin whatever's around. tough customers, no doubt

Theda Bara would’ve absolutely smoked cloves

coral court motel, marlborough, missouri, 1988

coral court motel, marlborough, missouri, 1988

Pizza & Pipes & Pipes: the theatre organ pizza parlor with attached head shop

Dude you would love my neighbour Gutsuck Stormchurner. He's also a big trains guy. Fair warning he's a lich so his place is kinda messy

2025 is the year of the saxophone I can feel it

Pioneer Square in Seattle (esp. the Smith Tower with its antique elevators and observation deck bar)
and if you’re there on the 28th, silent movie mondays!!!

there are some nuggets of fun graphic design and illustration to be found as well as insider railroad info!!

milwaukeeroadarchives.com/MilwaukeeRoa...

I honestly wonder if they were done by the same artist

“on the steel trail” and “claim prevention” rendered in a similarly blobby lettering style and decorated in thematic ways

weird but not without precedent, these similar headers are from the Milwaukee Road’s employee magazine from *1923*

I feel like it’s trying to tell me something

never not thinking about her

thinking about her (the basketball hoop mounted between two grain silos that i saw when i was working for the illinois department of agriculture)

maplewashing is real

many canadians can go their entire lives without realizing (or admitting) that canada sucks for a lot of the same reasons the US sucks

This seems like such a gentle dish but they call it a slam

lizard squirrels!!!

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

Pączki acquired, feeling 300% better

you know what you’re so right