Some nice design at the roof for an elevated train platform in Chicago. It’s a gable roof, with one eave just about at the train; the corrugated roofing simply spans from a beam at each eave to a truss at the ridge. The dark-painted steel is not part of the roof structure, and there’s a …
From Peanuts and Core77, a discussion of how “modern” is a moving target. (You’ve got to click on that link, or this will all be gibberish.) Charles Schultz, in 1953, was making a point about traditional forms of design being displaced by the new, so that small children might be confused; Rain Noe, in 2023, is …
I was in Albany last week and, as always, I took the train up and back. However, the train station is in the city of Rensselaer, on the east side of the Hudson River, and Albany is on the west side, so, as always, when I left the station I started walking. There’s one reasonable …
I’ve discussed this topic before, but since three days ago was the first time I saw this photo, I know that I didn’t say exactly what I’m going to say here. That’s a photo, from the 1984 HAER survey work, of the interior of the Statue of Liberty. There’s a nice distinction to be made: exterior views …
A while back I wrote about the odd 125th Street station on the 1 train. This is part of the original IRT subway, built around 1902 and opened in 1904. The line is in a tunnel to the south and to the north of that station, but grade drops sharply in a valley centered on 125th Street, so the …
