Trains do burnouts too, destructively but not intentionally

read about it at http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/07/railroad-train-does-burnout-of-tracks.html but in short, some trains have several engines, and this time, only the manned engine turned on the brakes, the rest kept spinning the tires up to and after the brakes throughout the rest of the entire train brought it and kept it at a stop

New York's elavated railway built in 1930's and abandoned in the 80's is finally a beautiful city park

photo by James Estrin of the New York Times

The High Line was originally constructed in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District in the 1930s to lift dangerous freight trains off of city streets. Abandoned in the 1980′s the High Line went into decay and disrepair and was rediscovered in popular consciousness in 2000, after acclaimed photographer Joel Sternfeld captured the beauty of the industrial relic in photos: overgrown with wildflowers — an abandoned human structure essentially reclaimed by nature in a matter of 20 years.

Photo by Joel Sternfeld

See a 36 photo gallery and get the full story at http://inhabitat.com/new-yorks-high-line-park-in-the-sky-opens-today/ via the incredible variety of cool stuff at http://stipistop.com/ 

Boudoir cars and palace cars, the luxury travel of the 1870's -1920's

Woodruff's Silver Palace Sleeping Car, built by the Harlan and Hollingworth Company of Wilmington Delaware, for the Central Pacific Railroad of California in 1869

from the book  The American Railroad Passenger Car  By John H. White, Jr

Pullman baggage and mail cars, 1889 - 1909

Just some of the Pullman photos from http://csrrm.crewnoble.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fcsrrm.crewnoble.com%2FSearchPullmanAll_Images.htm&QF0=ImageName&QI0=*&MR=30&TN=Pullman&RF=WebDisplay&AC=QBE_QUERY
thanks to Mary D who is writing a book about a young woman and her escapades running away from home with her families Pullman palace car (if I recall correctly) and doing a ton of research to get her Pullman info straight