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Harmony and discord clash once more in DISSIDIA 012[duodecim] FINAL FANTASY for PSP, as the gods Cosmos and Chaos struggle against each other in an eternal cycle of life, death and rebirth.
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New York Central
|New York Central Railroad
|Reporting mark
New York
New Jersey
Washington, DC
West Virginia
|Dates of operation
|Penn Central Transportation Company
|Track gauge
|(standard gauge)
700V (DC) third rail: Grand Central Terminal-Croton–Harmon
750V DC third rail: Grand Central Terminal-White Plains
|11,172 miles (17,980 kilometres)
|New York City, New York
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC), also known as New York Central or The Central, was a railroad operating in the northeastern and midwestern United States. Headquartered in New York City, the New York Central was a large railroad, and it had several subsidiaries whose identity remained strong in local loyalties.[1]
In broad geographic terms, the New York Central proper was everything east of Buffalo plus a line from Buffalo through Cleveland and Toledo to Chicago (the former Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway). NYC included the Ohio Central Lines (Toledo through Columbus to and beyond Charleston, West Virginia) and the Boston & Albany Railroad (neatly defined by its name). The Michigan Central Railroad was a Buffalo-Detroit-Chicago line and everything in Michigan north of that. NYC's Grand Central Terminal in New York City is one of its best known extant landmarks.[1]
In 1968 the NYC merged with former rival Pennsylvania Railroad to form the Penn Central, which went bankrupt by 1970.
- 1 History
- 2 Bypasses
- 3 Trains
- 4 Historical maps
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
The New York Central System, like many Eastern U.S. railroads, resulted from mergers, consolidations, and leases. Its principal predecessors were the following companies:
- New York Central & Hudson River Railroad (NYC&HR), the dominant railroad
- Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway (LS&MS)
- West Shore Railroad (WS)
- Boston & Albany Railroad (B&A)
- Ohio Central Lines
- Michigan Central Railroad (MC)
- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (Big Four)
The NYC System included several controlled railroads that did not accompany NYC into the 1968 Penn Central merger. The most important of these were:
- Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE): 80% owned by NYC — owned by CSX Transportation since 1993
- Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad (IHB): NYC 30%; MC 30%; Chicago & North Western 20%; Milwaukee Road 20% — independent
- Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway: NYC 37%; MC 22%; Canada Southern Railway 14%; Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) 27% — owned by CP since 1977
New York Central
The Erie Canal, opened in 1825 between Albany and Buffalo, New York, followed the Hudson and Mohawk rivers between Albany and Schenectady. The 40-mile (64 km) water route included several locks and was extremely slow; in consequence, stagecoaches plied the direct route between the cities. In 1826 the Mohawk & Hudson Rail Road (M&H) was incorporated to replace the stages between Albany and Schenectady. The railroad opened in 1831; its first locomotive was named DeWitt Clinton after the governor of the state where the M&H was incorporated. Within months there was a proposal for a railroad all the way from Albany to Buffalo, but the subject was touchy — the state was still deeply in debt for construction of the Erie Canal.[1]
One by one, railroads were incorporated, built, and opened westward from the end of the M&H; Utica & Schenectady, Syracuse & Utica, Auburn & Syracuse, Auburn & Rochester, Tonawanda (Rochester to Attica via Batavia), and Attica & Buffalo. By 1841 it was possible to travel between Albany and Buffalo by train in just 25 hours (lightning speed compared with the canal packets); by 1851 the same trip time had been reduced to a little over 12 hours.
In 1851 the state passed an act freeing the railroads from the need to pay tolls to the Erie Canal, with which they competed; that same year the Hudson River Railroad was opened from New York City to Rensselaer and the New York & Erie (later the Erie Railroad) was opened from Piermont, on the Hudson River, west to Dunkirk, New York, on Lake Erie.[1]
The New York & Harlem Railroad (NY&H) was incorporated in 1831 to build a line in Manhattan from 23rd Street north to 129th Street between Third and Eighth Avenues (the railroad chose to follow Fourth Avenue). At first the railroad was primarily a horsecar system, but in 1840 the NY&H's charter was amended to allow it to build north toward Albany. In 1844 the rails reached White Plains and in January 1852 the NY&H made connection with the Western Railroad (later Boston & Albany) at Chatham, New York, creating a New York-Albany route.[1]
The Hudson was a busy river, and the towns along it felt no need for a railroad — except during the winter when ice prevented navigation. Poughkeepsie interests organized the Hudson River Railroad in 1847. In the autumn of 1851 the railroad was opened from a terminal on Manhattan's West side all the way to Rensselaer. By then the railroad had leased the Troy & Greenbush, gaining access to a bridge over the Hudson at Troy. (A bridge at Albany was opened in 1866.)[1]
By 1863 Cornelius Vanderbilt controlled the NY&H and had acquired a substantial interest in the Hudson River Railroad. In 1867 he obtained control of the New York Central (NYC), consolidating it with the Hudson River in 1869 to form the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad (NYC&HR).[1]
Vanderbilt wanted to build a magnificent terminal for the NYC&HR in New York City and chose as its site the corner of 42nd Street and Fourth Avenue on the NY&H, the southerly limit of steam locomotive operation in Manhattan. Construction of Grand Central Depot began in 1869 and took two years. The new depot was actually three separate stations serving the NYC&HR, the NY&H, and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH). Trains of the Hudson River line reached the NY&H by means of a connecting track completed in 1871 along Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the Harlem River.[1]
That was the first of three Grand Centrals. The present station, Grand Central Terminal (GCT), was opened in 1913, and defied all possible expectations. GCT has a total of 48 platform tracks on two subterranean levels; the project included depressing and decking over the tracks along Park Avenue and electrifying NYC's lines north to Harmon and White Plains. Even in the internet age Grand Central remains awesome. (NYC had two other stretches of electrified line: the Detroit River Tunnel, opened in 1910, and Cleveland Union Terminal, opened in 1930. Diesels put an end to both those electrifications in 1953.)[1]
The Watertown & Rome Railroad (W&R) was chartered in 1832 to connect Watertown, New York, with the Syracuse & Utica, then only a proposal itself. The railroad opened in 1851, and in 1852 it was extended to Cape Vincent, New York, where it connected with a ferry to Kingston, Ontario. In 1861 the W&R consolidated with the Potsdam & Watertown to form the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad (RW&O). RW&O built a line to Oswego and bought lines to Syracuse and Buffalo. The Buffalo line ended up being a mistake — it bypassed Rochester, had almost no local business, and was not part of any through route. The RW&O came under Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad control briefly before a rehabilitation in the 1880s. New management extended the RW&O north to connect with a Grand Trunk Railway line to Montreal and added the Black River & Utica (Utica to Watertown and Ogdensburg) to the system. NYC leased the RW&O in 1893. Meanwhile, NYC had built its own line north from Herkimer: the St. Lawrence & Adirondack (later Mohawk & Malone) of William Seward Webb, son-in-law of William H. Vanderbilt. NYC merged the Mohawk & Malone in 1911 and the RW&O in 1913.[1]
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
The Michigan Southern was chartered by the state of Michigan in 1837 to build from the head of navigation on the River Raisin west of Monroe across the southern tier of Michigan to the shore of Lake Michigan at New Buffalo. Under the state auspices it got as far west as Hillsdale, Michigan. It was sold to private interests who combined it with the Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad (opened in 1837 from Toledo, Ohio, to Adrian, Michigan) and extended it west to meet the Northern Indiana Railroad, which was building east from La Porte, Indiana. The line was opened from Monroe to South Bend in 1851; by February 1852 it reached Chicago, where it teamed up with the Rock Island to build terminal facilities (Northern Indiana's successors shared a Chicago station — LaSalle Street — with Rock Island until 1968). The railroads were combined as the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana in 1855; by then a direct line between Elkhart and Toledo had been constructed.[1]
The railroad situation along the south shore of Lake Erie was complicated by Ohio's insistence on a track gauge of , Pennsylvania's reluctance to let a railroad from another state cross its borders, and the desire of the city of Erie, Pennsylvania to have the change of gauge within its limits in the hope that passengers would spend money while changing trains there. The NYC controlled the Buffalo & State Line and the Erie & North East Railroads by 1853; they were combined as the Buffalo & Erie in 1867. The Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad (CP&A) was opened between Cleveland and Erie in 1852. In 1868 the CP&A took its familiar name, Lake Shore, as its official name, and a year later it absorbed the Cleveland & Toledo and joined with the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana to form the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway (LS&MS). Cornelius Vanderbilt acquired control of the LS&MS during the business panic of 1873.[1]
In 1914 the NYC&HR and LS&MS (plus several smaller railroads) were combined to form the New York Central Railroad — the second railroad of that name.[1]
West Shore Railroad
In 1869 and 1870 several railroads were proposed and surveyed up the west bank of the Hudson River; in 1880 the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad was formed to build a line from Jersey City to Albany and Buffalo, parallel to the NYC. William Vanderbilt suspected the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) was behind the project. The railroad opened to Albany and Syracuse in 1883 and reached Buffalo at the beginning of 1884. A rate war then ensued.[1]
The West Shore (WS) entered bankruptcy, as did the construction company that built the line. WS cut its rates to beat those of the NYC, hoping the Central, with its far greater volume of business, would lose much more money than the WS. NYC, however, had resources to withstand a temporary loss.[1]
In retaliation Vanderbilt decided to revive an old survey for a railroad across Pennsylvania. The surveyed route was considerably shorter than that of the PRR. He enlisted the support of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Meanwhile, PRR bought West Shore bonds. It took J. P. Morgan to work a compromise between the NYC and PRR. The Central would lease the WS, and the PRR would get the South Pennsylvania Railroad and its partially excavated tunnels. In 1885 the WS was reorganized as the West Shore Railroad, wholly owned by the NYC and leased to it. (The roadbed of the South Pennsylvania was later partially used for the Pennsylvania Turnpike.) The Weehawken-Albany portion of the WS proved to be a valuable freight route for NYC and more so for its successors Penn Central and Conrail; most of the WS west of Rotterdam Junction was abandoned by Conrail and subsequently converted for rail trail use as the Erie Canalway Trail. In 1952 NYC merged the WS.[1]
Boston & Albany Railroad
The Boston & Worcester Railroad (B&W) was opened between the cities of its name in 1835. Its charter had a clause prohibiting the construction of a parallel railroad within 5 miles (8.0 kilometres) for 30 years. The Western Railroad was opened in 1840 from Worcester west to Springfield and in 1841 across the Berkshire range to Greenbush, New York, on the east bank of the Hudson opposite Albany. The two railroads shared some directors, but efforts at merging them were futile until 1863, when B&W's protection clause expired and the Western proposed building its own line from Worcester to Boston. The two roads were consolidated as the Boston & Albany Railroad (B&A) in 1867.[1]
The B&A had several minor branch lines and a few major ones: Palmer to Winchendon, Massachusetts; Springfield to Athol, Massachusetts; Pittsfield to North Adams, Massachusetts; and Chatham to Hudson, New York — only short portions of them remain in service.[1]
The B&A's principal connection was the NYC at Albany. The NYC leased the B&A in 1900. The reason for B&A's willingness to forsake independence was that NYC would acquire the parallel Fitchburg Railroad, which never happened. In 1961 NYC merged B&A.[1]
B&A maintained much more of its own identity than did other NYC subsidiaries. It had its own officers, and until 1951 its locomotives and cars were lettered "Boston & Albany" rather than "New York Central Lines," largely to appeal to local sensitivities. B&A's steam power was basically NYC in appearance but with occasional distinctive features, such as square sand domes on the Hudsons and offset smokebox doors on Pacifics. The profile of the B&A, definitely not the water level route NYC was so proud of elsewhere, called for heavy power in the form of 2-6-6-2s and 2-8-4s (the latter named for the Berkshires over which the line ran). Nearer Boston, B&A operated an intense suburban service powered by 2-6-6Ts and 4-6-6Ts, the latter looking like condensed, solid-packed NYC Hudsons.[1]
Ohio Central lines
The Ohio Central lines included the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway and three leased lines (merged in 1938), the Zanesville & Western Railway, the Kanawha & Michigan Railway, and the Kanawha & West Virginia Railroad. They formed a route to Toledo southeast through Columbus across the Ohio River, and through Charleston to Swiss and Hitop, West Virginia. The line began as the Atlantic & Lake Erie, chartered in 1869. After a series of receiverships and a name change to Ohio Central the line managed to link Columbus with the Ohio River at Middleport in 1882. The railroad then pushed into the coalfields along the Kanawha River in West Virginia and extended itself northwest toward Toledo. It was renamed the Toledo & Ohio Central (T&OC) in 1885. The NYC acquired control of the T&OC by 1910 and began operating it as part of the NYC System. NYC leased the railroad in 1922 and merged it in 1952.[1]
Michigan Central Railroad
The Michigan Central Railroad had its beginnings in the Detroit & St. Joseph Railroad, which was incorporated in 1832 to build a railroad across Michigan from Detroit to St. Joseph. Michigan attained statehood in 1837 and almost immediately chartered railroads to be constructed along three routes:
- the Northern, from Port Huron to the head of navigation on the Grand River;
- the Central, from Detroit to St. Joseph;
- the Southern, from the head of navigation on the River Raisin, west of Monroe, to New Buffalo.[1]
The state purchased the Detroit & St. Joseph to use as the basis for the Central Railroad. About the time the railroad reached Kalamazoo (in 1846) it ran out of money. It was purchased from the state by Boston interests led by John W. Brooks and was reorganized as the Michigan Central Railroad (MC). Construction resumed in the direction of New Buffalo rather than St. Joseph, and in 1849 the line reached Michigan City, Indiana, about as far as its Michigan charter could take it.[1]
To reach the Illinois border the MC used the charter of the New Albany & Salem (NA&S) (a predecessor of the Monon Railroad) in exchange for which it purchased a block of NA&S stock. The MC continued on Illinois Central rails to Chicago, reaching there in 1852.[1]
The Great Western Railway opened in 1854 from Niagara Falls to Windsor, Ontario, opposite Detroit, and in March 1855 John Roebling's suspension bridge across the Niagara River was completed, creating with the NYC a continuous line of rails from Albany to Windsor. The Great Western (which had track gauge of ) installed a third rail for standard gauge equipment between 1864 and 1866. Vanderbilt, who had started buying MC stock in 1869, tried to purchase the Great Western. He did not succeed and turned his attention instead to the Canada Southern Railway. It had been incorporated in 1868 as the Erie & Niagara Extension Railway to build a line along the north shore of Lake Erie and then across the Detroit River below the city of Detroit. He acquired the railroad in 1876; MC leased it in 1882. Conrail sold the Canada Southern to Canadian National and Canadian Pacific in 1985. NYC leased the MC in 1930.[1]
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (Big Four)
The oldest predecessor of the Big Four (and a comparatively late addition to it) was the Mad River & Lake Erie. Ground was broken in 1835, and the line was opened from Sandusky to Dayton, Ohio, in 1851. It went through several renamings and became part of what later was the Peoria & Eastern before it was merged into the Big Four in 1890.[1]
The Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati (CC&C) was chartered in 1836, broke ground in 1847, and opened in 1851 between Cleveland and Columbus. In 1852 it teamed up with the Little Miami and Columbus & Xenia railroads to form a Cleveland-Cincinnati route.[1]
In 1848 the Indianapolis & Bellefontaine (I&B) and the Bellefontaine & Indiana (B&I) railroads were incorporated to build a line between Galion, Ohio, on the CC&C, and Indianapolis. The I&B and the B&I amalgamated and became known as "The B. Line." They were absorbed by the CC&C when it reorganized as the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis in 1868. The nickname of the new railroad was "The Bee Line." The Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis reached Cincinnati with its own rails in 1872; that same year it opened a line from Springfield to Columbus. By then the Vanderbilts owned a good portion of the railroad's stock.[1]
The Terre Haute & Alton Railroad was organized in 1852; its backers were certain that with a railroad to Indiana the Mississippi River town of Alton, Illinois could easily outstrip St. Louis a few miles south. It soon combined with the Belleville & Illinoistown Railroad as the Terre Haute, Alton & St. Louis. The Indianapolis & St. Louis was organized to build between Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Indiana. It leased the St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute, successor to the Terre Haute, Alton & St. Louis, and came under control of the CCC&I in 1882.[1]
In the late 1840s and early 1850s several railroads were completed forming a route from Cincinnati through Indianapolis and Lafayette, Indiana to Kankakee, Illinois, connecting there with the IC north to Chicago. In 1880 these railroads were united as the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago — considered to be the first "Big Four." Heading the company was Melville E. Ingalls, and on its board was C. P. Huntington, whose Chesapeake & Ohio Railway formed a friendly connection at Cincinnati.[1]
The Vanderbilts had invested in the first Big Four, and they were firmly in control of the new Big Four, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, which was formed in 1889 by the consolidation of the old Big Four (Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago) and the Bee Line (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis).[1]
In the late 1880s Ingalls and the Vanderbilts gathered a group of railroads between Cairo and Danville, Illinois; added to them the St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute; and then added them all to the Big Four. The line from Danville north to Indiana Harbor was a comparatively late addition to the system: It was built in 1906 and became part of the NYC rather than the Big Four.[1]
The Peoria & Eastern was formed in 1890 from several small railroads. At one time its predecessor briefly included the former Mad River & Lake Erie and a line from Indianapolis east to Springfield, Ohio, before settling down to be simply a Peoria-Bloomington-Danville-Indianapolis route. In 1902 the Big Four bought the Cincinnati Northern, a line that had been proposed in 1852 and finally constructed in the 1880s from Franklin, Ohio, between Dayton and Cincinnati, to Jackson, Michigan. In 1920 the Big Four acquired the Evansville, Indianapolis & Terre Haute, a castoff from the Chicago & Eastern Illinois in southwestern Indiana. The NYC leased the Big Four in 1930.[1]
NYC System
The New York Central System was the final name change, which took place in the summer of 1935. (Between the 1914 merger and then, the NYCRR had operated as the New York Central Lines.) The NYCS was the largest of the eastern trunk systems from the standpoint of mileage and second only to the PRR in revenue. It served most of the industrial part of the country, and its freight tonnage was exceeded only by coal-carrying railroads. In addition it was a major passenger railroad — with perhaps two-thirds the number of passengers as the PRR, but NYC's average passenger traveled one-third again as far as PRR's.[1]
The generally level topography of the NYC system had a character distinctively different than the mountainous terrain of the PRR. Most of its major routes, including New York-Chicago, followed rivers and had no significant grades other than West Albany Hill. This influenced both advertising and locomotive design, built around its flagship New York-Chicago "Water Level Route".[2]
Steam locomotives were optimized for speed on the flat terrain, rather than slow mountain lugging. Famous locomotives of the system included the 4-6-4 Hudsons, particularly the 1937–38 J-3a's; 4-8-2 World War II–era L-3 and L-4 Mohawks; and the postwar S-class Niagaras: fast 4-8-4 locomotives.
NYC did not share as fully in the post–World War II economic expansion because of rising labor and material costs and an extensive improvement program, especially for passenger services.[1] Despite having several modern steam locomotives, NYC's poor financial position caused it to convert to more economical diesel-electric power rapidly. All lines east of Cleveland were dieselized by August 7, 1953; Niagaras were retired by 1956. Steam operations ended in 1957. Problems resurfaced that had plagued the railroad industry before the war, such as over-regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), which severely regulated the rates charged by the railroad, along with continuing competition from automobiles. These problems were coupled with even more formidable forms of competition, such as airline service in the 1950s that began to deprive the NYC of its long-distance passenger trade. The Interstate Highway Act of 1956 helped create a network of efficient roads for motor vehicle travel through the country, enticing more people to travel by car, as well as haul freight by truck. The 1959 opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway adversely affected NYC freight business. Container shipments could now be directly shipped to ports along the Great Lakes, eliminating the railroads' freight hauls between the east and the Midwest.
NYC also carried a substantial tax burden from governments that saw rail infrastructure as a source of property tax revenues — taxes that were not imposed upon interstate highways. The railroad was also saddled with a wartime–era tax of 15% on passenger fares, which remained until 1962.[3]
In 1946 and 1947 the C&O purchased a block of NYC stock (6.4%), becoming the railroad's largest stockholder. Robert R. Young gained control of the NYC and became its chairman in 1954 as part of a maneuver to merge with the C&O.[1] One of his first acts was to put Alfred E. Perlman in charge of the Central. While Young was considered a railroad visionary, he was appalled to find the NYC in worse shape than surmised. Young was forced to suspend dividend payments in January 1958; he committed suicide later that month.[4]
Under Perlman NYC slimmed its physical plant, reducing long stretches of four-track line to two track under centralized traffic control, and developed an aggressive freight marketing department.[1] He oversaw construction and/or modernization of many hump or classification yards, notably the $20-million Selkirk Yard which opened outside of Albany in 1966. Perlman also experimented with "jet trains", creating a Budd Rail Diesel Car (the M-497 Black Beetle) powered by two J47 jet engines stripped from a B-36 Peacemaker bomber as a solution to increasing car and airplane competition. The project did not leave the prototype stage. Perlman's efforts reduced operating deficits by $7.7 million, which nominally raised NYC stock to $1.29 per share, producing dividends of an amount not seen since the end of the war. By 1964 he was able to reduce the NYC long term debt by nearly $100 million, while reducing passenger deficits from $42 to $24.6 million.
At the same time NYC's passenger operations were de-emphasized; commuter lines around New York were particularly affected. Service was ended on the Putnam Division in Westchester and Putnam counties in 1959, and ferry service to Weehawken Terminal ended, impacting the WS. Ridding itself of most commuter service proved impossible due to heavy patronage around metro New York, which government mandated the railroad operate at a loss. On December 3, 1967, just before NYC and PRR merged, the Central reduced its passenger service to a skeleton, combining its New York-Chicago, New York-Detroit, New York-Toronto, and Boston-Chicago services into a single train and dropping all train names (including that of the 20th Century Limited, once considered the world's finest train) except for, curiously, that of the Chicago-Cincinnati James Whitcomb Riley.[1]
The Central's archrival was the PRR. West of the Allegheny Mountains the two systems duplicated each other at almost every major point; east of those cites, the two hardly touched. Both railroads had physical plant not being utilized to capacity, but Perlman's aggressive consolidation left NYC in better shape. PRR was worse than practically any other railroad, having four to six tracks where one or two would do — track that was no longer needed but which was still on the tax rolls. While Perlman had consolidated NYC operations successfully after WWII, PRR reacted at a more leisurely pace. PRR had far more fixed plant than the traffic warranted or could support, and was slow to dismantle excess trackage or replace double or quadruple track with CTC, something NYC had already accomplished. Both companies had intense passenger business; neither was earning much money. Differences aside, NYC and PRR announced merger talks in 1957.[1]
The initial industry reaction was utter surprise. "Who? Why?" Every merger proposal for decades had tried to balance NYC against PRR and create two, three, or four more-or-less equal systems in the east. Traditionally, PRR had been allied with the Norfolk & Western Railway (N&W) and the Wabash Railroad; the NYC with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), the Reading Railroad (RDG) and, occasionally, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W). Any remaining players were swept up with the Erie Railroad and the Nickel Plate. Tradition also favored end-to-end mergers rather than those of parallel railroads.[1]
In addition to the problems of unification, the industrial states of the Northeast and Midwest were fast becoming known as the rust belt. As industries shut down and relocated, railroads found themselves with excess capacity.[1]
Planning and justifying the merger took nearly a decade, during which time the eastern railroad scene had changed radically, in large measure because of the impending merger of NYC and PRR. The Erie merged with the DL&W to create the Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL) in 1960, C&O acquired control of B&O, and N&W took in the Virginian Railway, Wabash, Nickel Plate, Pittsburgh & West Virginia and Akron, Canton & Youngstown. Stockholders of the PRR and NYC approved the merger of the two railroads on May 8, 1962. ICC approved the merger four years later, and on February 1, 1968, the Penn Central (PC) came into existence — and fell apart faster than it went together.[1]
At the insistence of the ICC and PRR president Stuart T. Saunders, PC had to take over both freight and passenger operations of the ailing NH as well, which occurred on December 31, 1968. PRR and NYC came into the merger in the black (NH was in the red), but PC's first year of operation yielded a deficit of $2.8 million ($18,989,091 today). In 1969 the deficit was nearly $83 million ($533,775,862 today). PC's net income for 1970 was a deficit of $325.8 million ($1,978,530,077 today). By then the railroad had entered bankruptcy proceedings — specifically on June 21, 1970. The PC bankruptcy was a cataclysmic event, both to the railroad industry and to the nation's business community. The nation's sixth largest corporation had become the nation's largest bankruptcy in history[1] (the Enron Corporation's 2001 bankruptcy eclipsed this in large measure).
A number of bypasses and cutoffs were built around congested areas.
The Junction Railroad's Buffalo Belt Line opened in 1871, providing a bypass of Buffalo, New York to the northeast, as well as a loop route for passenger trains via downtown. The West Shore Railroad, acquired in 1885, provided a bypass around Rochester, New York. The Terminal Railway's Gardenville Cutoff, allowing through traffic to bypass Buffalo to the southeast, opened in 1898.
The Schenectady Detour consisted of two connections to the West Shore Railroad, allowing through trains to bypass the steep grades at Schenectady, New York. The full project opened in 1902. The Cleveland Short Line Railway built a bypass of Cleveland, Ohio, completed in 1912. In 1924, the Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge was constructed as part of the Hudson River Connecting Railroad's Castleton Cut-Off, a 27.5-mile-long freight bypass of the congested West Albany terminal area and West Albany Hill.
An unrelated realignment was made in the 1910s at Rome, when the Erie Canal was realigned and widened onto a new alignment south of downtown Rome. The NYC main line was shifted south out of downtown to the south bank of the new canal. A bridge was built southeast of downtown, roughly where the old main line crossed the path of the canal, to keep access to from the southeast. West of downtown, the old main line was abandoned, but a brand new railroad line was built, running north from the NYC main line to the Central's former RW&O, allowing all NYC through traffic to bypass Rome.
For two-thirds of the 20th century NYC operated several famous trains. Its 20th Century Limited, begun in 1902, ran from GCT in New York to LaSalle Street Station in Chicago and was its most famous train, known for its red carpet treatment and first class service. In the mid-1930s many railroad companies were introducing streamlined locomotives; until NYC introduced the Commodore Vanderbilt, all were diesel-electric. The Vanderbilt used the more common steam engine.[5] The 20th Century Limited which followed the Water Level Route, could complete the 960-mile trip in 16 hours after its streamlining on June 15, 1938 (and did it in 15½ hours for a short period after World War II). Also famous was its Empire State Express through upstate New York to Buffalo and Cleveland, and Ohio State Limited from New York to Cincinnati. NYC also provided the Rexall Train of 1936, which toured 47 states to promote the Rexall chain of drug stores.
New York-Chicago
- 20th Century Limited: New York-Chicago (limited stops) via the Water Level Route 1902–1967
- Commodore Vanderbilt: New York–Chicago (a few more stops) via the Water Level Route
- Lake Shore Limited: New York–Chicago via Cleveland with branch service to Boston and St. Louis 1896–1956, 1971–Present (Reinstated and combined with New England States by Amtrak in 1971)
- Chicagoan: New York–Chicago
- Pacemaker: New York–Chicago all-coach train via Cleveland
- Wolverine: New York-Chicago via southern Ontario and Detroit
The Mercuries (1936-1959)
- Chicago Mercury: Chicago-Detroit
- Cincinnati Mercury: Cleveland-Cincinnati
- Cleveland Mercury: Detroit-Cleveland
- Detroit Mercury: Cleveland-Detroit
New York-St. Louis
- Knickerbocker
- Southwestern Limited
Other Trains
- Empire State Express: New York-Buffalo and Cleveland via the Empire Corridor 1891–Present
- Ohio State Limited: New York-Cincinnati via Empire Corridor
- Xplorer: Cleveland-Cincinnati 1958–1960 (Special experimental lightweight train)
- Cleveland Limited: New York–Cleveland
- Detroiter: New York–Detroit
- James Whitcomb Riley: Chicago-Cincinnati
- Michigan: Chicago-Detroit
- Motor City Special: Chicago-Detroit
- New England States: Boston-Chicago via the Water Level Route 1938–1971 (Retained by Penn Central and, for Amtrak, combined with reinstated Lake Shore Limited)
- Twilight Limited: Chicago-Detroit
Trains left GCT, Weehawken Terminal in Weehawken, New Jersey, South Station in Boston, Cincinnati Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Michigan Central Station in Detroit, St. Louis Union Station, and LaSalle Street Station in Chicago.
The NYC had a network of commuter lines in New York and Massachusetts. Westchester County, New York, had the railroad's Hudson, Harlem, and Putnam lines into GCT (Putnam Division trains required a change at High Bridge, New York), while New Jersey and Rockland County, New York were serviced by the West Shore Line between Weehawken and West Haverstraw, New York, on the west side of the Hudson River.
Historical maps
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See also
- 20th Century Limited
- Empire State Express
- Merchants Despatch
- David L. Gunn
- Kankakee Belt Route
- Ohio State Limited
- Xplorer
- New York Central Railroad Museum
- New York Central Tugboat 13
External links
|Commons has media related to New York Central Railroad.
- New York Central System Historical Society
- The Road of the Century (The Story of the New York Central), book by Alvin F. Harlow
- The Beginnings of the New York Central Railroad: The Consolidation
- New York Central in Western New York
- National New York Central Railroad Museum
- Stapleford Miniature Railway UK have a working 1/5th NYC Niagara class
- Railroad History Database
- Surface Transportation Board Decision FD-33388, which created New York Central Lines LLC
- PRR Chronology


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Slated to be included in a software update following the system's launch in North America later this month, Nintendo describes this new features as a "short-form video service" which will give owners access to Hollywood movie trailers running in full 3D, giving viewers a taste of the 3D theatre experience in the palm of their hand. The Green Lantern movie was mentioned specifically, but I'm sure they'll have good movies as well.
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(CBS/AP) LONG BEACH, Calif. - Now that Brian Banks has been exonerated of a rape conviction that put him in prison for five years, the one-time prep football star has a message for NFL coaches: Give him a chance.
After Thursday's emotional court hearing during which Banks broke down in tears, the 26-year-old said he wants to pursue his interrupted dream of playing professional football.
Ex-high school football star cleared of rape conviction
Appearing Friday on NBC's "Today" show, Banks said he just wants a chance from an NFL team.
"I think that any team that gives me an opportunity will be really impressed with what I can do despite all of what I've been through these past 10 years," Banks said.
It was the plan he left outside a prison door when he pleaded no contest to a childhood friend's false accusation of rape in 2002, a claim she has now recanted.
The hearing that changed Banks' life took only minutes. Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Brentford Ferreira said his office conceded the case should be dismissed. Superior Court Judge Mark C. Kim concurred and quickly announced it was over.
One of his first moves was to report to the probation office to have the electronic monitoring ankle bracelet removed a felon no longer.
Banks said he is ready to move forward and is trying not to be angry.
"I couldn't ask for more today," he told reporters after Thursday's hearing. "But there is always the question of why did it have to happen in the first place? Why wasn't I heard with the truth of what happened when I was 16?"
Even after he was released from prison, he could not get work because he was a registered sex offender and had a felony record.
Before the charges, Banks was a star middle linebacker at Long Beach Polytechnic High School and was attracting interest from college football powerhouses as the University of Southern California, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan, according to the website Rivals.com, which tracks the recruiting of high school football and basketball players.
He verbally agreed to a full scholarship at USC.
Then, a teenage girl he had known since childhood claimed he had raped her. He was arrested and, on advice of counsel, pleaded no contest to rape and an enhancement of kidnapping in order to avoid a possible life sentence if tried by a jury.
According to CBS Los Angeles, Banks said his defense attorney told him, "'When you go into that courtroom the jury is going to see a big black teenager and you're automatically going to be assumed guilty.' Those are her exact words."
His story is a triumph for the California Innocence Project which took up his case and illustrates the growing trend toward taking a new look at convictions. But Justin Brooks, head of the program at California Western University in San Diego, said this was the first case he had championed for someone already out of prison. He felt it was not too late to right a wrong for Banks and turn his life around.
The key, said Brooks, was the woman's admission she had lied. And it came out of the blue.
After serving five years and two months in prison, Banks was released, and a strange thing happened. Wanetta Gibson, the woman who claimed he had attacked her on the high school campus when she was 15, contacted him on Facebook and asked to meet with him.
He recalled being stunned. "I thought maybe it wasn't real. How could she be contacting me?"
He said he knew that if he became angry when he met with her it wouldn't help, so he struggled to keep calm.
"I stopped what I was doing and got down on my knees and prayed to God to help me play my cards right," he said.
In two meetings, she said she had lied and offered to help him clear his name, but there was a catch. She did not want to return a $1.5 million payment from a civil suit brought by her mother against the Long Beach schools.
She refused to repeat her new story to prosecutors but they accepted the account which had been secretly videotaped by the defense.
It was uncertain whether Gibson will have to return the money and unlikely she would be prosecuted for making the false accusation so long ago.
Gibson did not attend the hearing and she could not be reached for comment. Prosecutors and defense attorneys said they were unable to find her recently.
At the press conferences that followed the court hearing, Brooks appealed to NFL teams to give Banks a chance. He said Banks has been training six days a week to get in shape for the career he wants.
"He has the speed and the strength. He certainly has the heart," Brooks said. "I hope he gets the attention of people in the sports world."
Gil Brandt, an NFL draft consultant, said Banks would be eligible to sign with any team that might show interest. However, his years away from the game will be hard to overcome.
"History tells us guys who come back after one or two years away when they go into the service find it awfully hard," Brandt said. "And this has been much longer a time."
Brandt compared the challenge to someone who has been out of high school for years trying to get an A in their first class in college.
Banks said he is ready for the challenge.
"It's been a struggle. But I'm unbroken, and I'm still here today," the tall, muscular Banks said, tears flowing down his face.
Outside court, Banks donned a sweatshirt that read: "Innocent."


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A lot of people wrote in last week in response this Dadspin post, particularly other dads who had been through similar situations. I don't really have a good place to post these letters—seems inappropriate to put letters about endangered babies in a feature called DEAD LETTERS—but I just wanted to say to everyone who wrote in that your emails were read and very much appreciated. Also, I shouldn't have sugarcoated the whole having-a-kid-in-the-NICU business. It's been unbearable.
Now, with that out of the way, I think it's time to get back to the business of Funbagging. Your letters:
My friends and I were discussing cannibalism the other day. The conversation quickly turned into which person we would like to snack on the most for the sake of taste. The general opinion is that we want someone young and muscular, but with a bit of fat on them. At the same time, this person should be organic, not letting Jose Canseco jam needles in their ass. The consensus answer for them was Tim Tebow.
On the other hand, I went off the board with Baby Jesus, likening him to eating the finest piece of veal. My questions for you are: (1) who is the most ideal person to eat (past or present), and (2) which body part would taste the best? (And yes, I already know that I'm going straight to hell).
For all cannibalism questions, I always turn to the late muralist Diego Rivera, who once partook in the practice.
He said that at one point he dabbled in cannibalism, recommending ''women's brains in vinaigrette.''
With that in mind, I would strongly recommended NOT eating Tebow if given your choice of celebrity to dine on. I also don't agree that you want someone muscular, because that would mean a lot of gristle. You would definitely want to eat a woman. The rule of eating people is, I presume, the same as the rule of eating lobsters: THE FEMALES ARE SWEETER. I'll take Adele. She's young and well fed. I wouldn't want to eat a baby. That would be like trying to eat quail. Ever eat quail? It's delicious, but so many tiny bones. I wish quail were larger.
(NOTE: Please don't eat other people.)
I was behind this car in bumper to bumper traffic. Glad I wasn't next to them. And I wouldn't look at his mirrors because any eye contact would have been awkward, but I'm sure he was enjoying the traffic more than me.
I wish there were an economy VW model named the Fap, so that the model name came right after that license plate. I would buy a car named the Fap.
I work at a local pizza place in my town as a delivery driver. The pay is a little less than minimum wage, but you earn most of your money from tips anyways. One of the biggest things that pisses me off is when someone leaves me less than a $3 tip. Since I live in a somewhat small town, most customers are repeat customers so I know exactly who gives shitty tips. So if I know the person I'm delivering to is gonna come a little cheap, I will eat some of their food while driving over. Nothing too big though, if they have fries or onion rings or nuggets I'll eat them, but nothing huge like their sub or pizza (I'm not trying to get fired). I feel I am not in the wrong for doing this. However, some of my coworkers take it a little further and will sometimes reach down in their pants and get their hand nice and lubed up with swamp ass and grundle and rub it on the person's food.
That is WRONG. Listen I know bad tippers like Stephon Marbury and all are horrible people. But wiping your fromunda on someone's fries is a CRIME. It's a goddamn crime, I tell you!
Any job that doesn't involve waiting tables that pays you less than minimum wage with the promise of extra tip income is bullshit. Quit that job right now. You may have a good sense of what kind of tip a delivery driver deserves, but the reality is that most people tip delivery drivers the exact same way. Do I have a few extra singles in my wallet? Fine. You get a tip. Do I only have twenties? Uh... shit. Well, uh... this is awkward... (DOOR SLAM). I'm never ordering delivery.
I'm 26, which means Internet pornography has been around throughout my masturbatory career. As someone who grew up before this era, did you ever think in your wildest dreams that pornography would be this easily available?
Of course not. I remember, vividly, the first time I ever saw a downloaded porn clip from the internet. It was senior year in college (1997), and this one friend of mine with friends with this Greek kid who was a complete sleazebag. So the Greek kid tells us he has something to show us and brings us to his room. I figured we were gonna smoke weed or something, but instead, he opens up his laptop, clicks on a file marked DINNER, and there it was. A smoking hot European porn clip right on his desktop. I was blown away. My friend and I begged him to put it on a floppy disk for us. Needless to say, it did not fit on a floppy disk. I was crushed.
Back in the early days of the web, there was no streaming pornography, so you had to download it all from Kazaa or BearShare or Limewire or some other Gnutella client. And the files were so huge that they took forever to download. And you never knew what you were getting. The file may have been named "tera-patrick-sucking-limo.mov", but there was no guarantee that you were getting what was promised. There are few things worse than waiting ninety years to download a fap clip only to be greeted with an error message (FUCK YOU! PLAY MY FILE!) or, even worse, some homemade video of a Russian guy raping a newborn foal. But that never stopped me from gambling.
FUCK YOU to any restaurant that charges for refills of coffee. I went to a casual restaurant known for their burgers, and was billed eight bucks for a burger (with extras) and fries. I was also billed FOUR BUCKS for two cups of coffee that were 8-10 ounces each. And it was cheap, local coffee not anything gourmet.
Building on that, refills of all non-alcoholic beverages in all restaurants should be free. Any place that has a soda fountain out in front of the counter and tries to charge for refills deserves every ounce of withering scorn it gets. I don't even bother to ask if refills are free or not. No one does. Shit, even Coke itself ran an ad blatantly stating that stealing sips from the fountain is just fine. Coke knows damn well that they have a profit margin of 3,000% regardless of how many cups of their shit you drink. I will stand at the fountain and drink nine bucketfuls of Coke Zero before actually securing the lid and heading to my chair. It's a problem.
Saw this in my office building a couple years back, thought you'd appreciate. I milled around for 30min to see if the driver came back since it wasn't in a monthly parking spot.
"My son is also named Bort."
I will be having surgery in a month to remove a tumor from my abdomen. The surgeon has told me that in order to remove the cancer he's going to have to kill the nerve that allows you to ejaculate. I will still be able to have an erection and achieve orgasm, just no semen. In fact, the semen will go into my bladder instead of out the penis (no, it isn't supposed to hurt). I went to a sperm bank before chemo started so if I ever want a kid i can just hit up the bank. On a relevant note, I'm a single, straight, 26 year old male. So, is all this a good thing or a bad thing?
/head asplode
I did not know this was, like, a thing that could happen to someone. So if the semen comes out of your bladder, could you still impregnate a woman by pissing into her? Because I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.
YOU: I want a baby.
WOMAN: Me, too! Let's make one!
YOU: Ah, about that. Bit of a twist there...
I assume that the surgery renders you infertile, which is a con if you plan on having children (as many men secretly do). Other cons of having your Skeet Nerve paralyzed:
• Having to explain to the man next you at the urinal why semen is coming out of you. "I'm not fapping! I swear! I do that in the stall!"
• Inability to pull off a money shot. You really ARE shooting blanks.
• All pee dribble stains will also be cum stains. That's rough.
But now, here are the pros:
• No need for birth control
• No need to beg your partner to consume your ejaculate upon orgasm (NO SPITTING! NO SWALLOWING! YOU'RE A DREAM MAN!)
• Awesome party trick
Oh, and the whole "treat your cancer" thing. That seems important. Enjoy your skeety piss!
Last month, a new guy moved into the cube on the other side of the cube wall from me, and he chews ice all the goddamn time. Like, not a little bit of ice that is left at the end of a drink; as far as I can tell, he goes and gets cups full of ice to chew. As I sit here right now, he has been chewing ice non-stop for at least 25 minutes, and the incessant crunch-crunch-crunch is so audible through these thin walls of fabric that it's on the verge of driving me insane. Is there any way of asking him to curtail his 4 hours of ice-munching a day that doesn't make me a bitch, or should I just start looking for a new job?
I think it's okay to politely but firmly say to him YOU GLASS CUNT. THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE PLACE TO CHEW ICE IS ON AN AIRPLANE WHEN YOU'RE WAITING FOR YOUR NEXT DRINK. Everyone chews ice on an airplane because there's nothing better to do. No one should CHOOSE to chew ice. That's bullshit. I never chew ice anymore because one time I had a piece of ice knock against one of my teeth and set off a nerve and OH MY FUCKING GOD MARATHON MAN AGONY. I'm never risking that again. Much better to stop chewing ice than to go to a dentist to have that checked out.
So, I'm at my parents' house for spring break (SPRING BREAK METRO DETROIT 2012 WOOOO) and we have a collection of my grandfather's things in the garage, due to him being moved from hospital to rehabilitation center, etc. One of the things sitting in the garage is his wheelchair, which I really want to bust it out and play wheelchair basketball in the driveway. But I don't know if I should, partly for moral reasons, partly for what the neighbors might think, but mainly because I feel like its bad luck. I feel like if I play around in someone else's wheelchair, I'll be cursed to be put in one at a young age. Are my concerns rational, or should I just say 'fuck it' and play?
Fuck it and play. Wheelchairs are a blast if you aren't a crippled person. When my wife was in the hospital last week, my kids found out that they were gonna be able to push her around in a wheelchair and they LOST THEIR SHIT. The second they wheeled in the chair, it was like Christmas times ninety. They got to sit in it and spin around and play with the brakes and footrests. You could have brought a Ferrari into the joint and they wouldn't have been anywhere near as excited. If the chair had been motorized, they would have dropped dead on the spot.
So go ahead and wheel around. I love playing with hospital equipment: wheelchairs, walkers, canes, crutches. When I was kid, anyone who broke their leg immediately was besieged by other kids wanting to play with their crutches. Ever do mini-vaults with your friends' crutches? RIVETING.
(NOTE: Check Dice's belt buckle in that special. Also, note the crowd. I love looking at the crowds in old 80s standup specials. It's like they carted everyone in from the set of Tic Tac Dough.)
So a year or so ago I had a really weird roommate (never find roommates on Craigslist). This kid had serious problems, never slept or left the house. So one day he calls his parents and says he is going to commit suicide, and like the shitty parents they were, they just called the cops to take care of it. So that night, a weekend night, we have like 8 dickhead cops in our house dragging him out so he can't kill himself. So they leave and naturally we know he won't be back soon so we go in his room. We find a bunch of 2-liter bottles of urine, then we get on his laptop and look at his browser history...all beastiality porn. (sample name of one webpage 'Great Dane fucks midget') So he is watching dogs screw people. We also find a bottle of KY jelly, and we remember that he had a small dog in his room for a few weeks. He had to have been one wall over from us screwing that poor little dog. We never went in that room again, even after he moved out.
But if he watching videos of dogs fucking people, doesn't that mean that he let the dog fuck HIM? I feel like that's a crucial difference. My opinion of a person changes depending on whether or not they're a doggie top or a doggie bottom. How would you even convince the dog to mount you? I bet Cesar Milian couldn't even do that.
(By the way, I hope there a dog porn video called PACK LEADER.)
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were going to die, would you really want to know?
FUCK AND NO. No one would. I prefer life to end like a soccer match, with someone suddenly blowing a whistle and everyone going home.
Let's say you are given the ability to become the best player in any sport you want. I'm talking the best ever, hands down, forever and ever, without having to work at it. None of this bullshit 'We give you the talent and ability, you have to work your ass off to realize said talent and ability.'
HOWEVA, here's the rub - you can only play for the team you most despise. AND you would be behaviorally ingrained to always hate your said team. No growing to love them, or the fans, or the city. For my scenario it would be the Celtics. You would be thereby helping said team of pure hatred to win title upon title, feeding the very thing and people you hate, all for the ultimate glory of your ego. Would you do it?
Yes, and so would you. You don't think there are scores of professional athletes who ended up getting drafted for a team they grew up hating? It happens all the time, but I've never seen a pro athlete openly refuse to play for a team because of that. Once you've reached that level of excellence, your allegiances go out the window. Staying loyal to your old team at that point is juvenile at best and fucking stupid at worst. You're not a fan anymore. You're inside the industry. I think that, once players are drafted, they don't see the game the way you or I do. They're too close to it. You may hate the Cowboys your whole life, but that changes once they hand you a check and you develop relationships with players and coaches on the team that you like. Fanaticism takes a backseat to professionalism, and that's fine. I'd be alarmed if it didn't. You play for the team that pays you.
Would you rather fart lightning, or ejaculate thunder?
Both scenarios are bad. Farting lightning sounds awesome, but would essentially ruin every pair of pants you ever wear. And ejaculating thunder would scare the shit out of your mate and send a signal to everyone nearby that you just ejaculated (out of your bladder if your reader Brian). Just an awful thing to have happen to you. Mortifying. I'd have no choice but to take that option, but I wouldn't like it.
Kyle (again):
Would you rather crap out of your mouth, or piss out of your nipples?
The latter, of course. Who wouldn't want to piss out of their nipples? You show that off at a bar, and you're the talk of the town.
Best book ever right?
Let there be no doubt. And check out Chet's website. It's amazing. It looks like a Tripod site from 1999. Complete with spinning text! It's the star wipe of homemade HTML.
Mike G.:
Anybody ever realize that ballsack skin heals in Wolverine fashion? That shit heals so fast!
I'll keep that in mind when I get my vasectomy.
I was explaining the healing process to my kid the other day because he got a booboo, and it is kind of miraculous when you think about it. Your cuts heal all by themselves, like MAGIC. We just don't appreciate it because it takes so long. We're all superheroes! Let's all have a big tack fight to celebrate.
Let's say I somehow meet a smoking hot set of conjoined twins and I am able to hop in the sack with them. I have officially been part of a threesome, right?
Yeah that counts, regardless of shared genitalia. I don't think men want threesomes just because they want two women to choose from in bed. I think men get off on the idea of CONVINCING two women to go to bed with him. It preys upon the very worst impulses of the male ego. Two women want my penis! THAT'S SO AWESOME. I can't wait to CRUSH two beers and CRUSH two pussies!
So if you convince two separately thinking entities to have sex with you, it counts.
If you could inflict any act of bodily damage on somebody, consequence free, what would you opt for? Gouge an eye out? Break a finger? Separate a shoulder? Personally, I've always been very intrigued by the concept of kicking somebody in the side of their weight-bearing leg, thus tearing all the ligaments in their knee.
Sledgehammer to the face. Like you, I've long wondered what it would be like to bend someone's finger back until it snapped like a twig, but the sledgehammer to the face would be more gratifying. First off, it would make me feel like I was ringing the bell at the carnie strongman contest. Secondly, who knows what kind of havoc that hammer would wreak. I mean, you're talking about a completely different person coming out of the end of that blow. Lots of puffiness.
I'd also opt for the Under Siege-style knife to the dome.
I drive to work and have the option of express or local lanes on the highway. I always take the express. Is it wrong that I root for a catastrophic accident that blocks the local lanes so I could laugh at the losers stuck in the local lanes as I whiz by?
No, and vice versa. Also, nothing fills me with rage more than getting stuck in either the express or local lanes knowing that I had my choice of either and blew it.
Time for a GREAT MOMENT IN PETER DINKLAGE FUNERAL STORIES.
My aunt is friends with Peter Dinklage's mother, and when her husband finally succumbed to cancer, both Peter and his mother came to the memorial.
My aunt and uncle were together for a long time, about 40 years. When my aunt came into the hall (after everyone else was seated) and saw the shrine/altar thing, she broke down crying and my cousin, who's 6'6" and played semipro football had to hold her up and basically carry her to her seat, where she sobbed heartbreakingly the whole time. I've been to some tough funerals in my time, but that moment is going to stick with me for the rest of my life; I understood then what true loss was.
This is all to set the scene for later, when my other cousin's kids (who, in their defense were like 8 and 10 at the time) went up to Peter Dinklage and wanted to talk to him about how he was in Elf. He was total ice to them: the phrase "totally inappropriate" featured prominently in the conversation. I was incredibly happy he didn't coddle them or give them any slack at all. So that's pure Dinklage right there.


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Book Fest announces headliners
Basketball legend Jerry West is coming for the Virginia Festival of the Book's March 21 Leadership Breakfast. University of Richmond prez/History Guy Ed Ayers will be the March 22 luncheon speaker, an event that's traditionally sold out. And Ian Fleming's successor, Jeffery Deaver, heads up the March 24 Crime Wave luncheon, and no doubt will discuss continuing the James Bond legacy.
For West, Central Virginia represents an old stomping ground, as the Hall of Famer would leave L.A. some summers to train a new generation at Camp Wahoo in Albemarle County. Among those he inspired at Camp Wahoo is none other than Debbie Ryan. His book, West by West, is co-authored by local Jonathan Coleman
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Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment
Verso, 2007 - 442 pages
Once themost lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has long beenone of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world. In thelate 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas, or "theflood," sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backeddictatorial rule. After winning a landslide election victory, in 1991the Lavalas government led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide wasoverthrown by a bloody military coup. Damming the Floodanalyzes how and why Aristide's enemies in Haiti, the US and Francemade sure that his second government, elected with another overwhelmingmajority in 2000, was toppled by a further coup in 2004.
The elaborate international campaign to contain, discredit and thenoverthrow Lavalas at the start of the twenty-first century was perhapsthe most successful act of imperial sabotage since the end of the ColdWar. Its execution and its impact have much to teach anyone interestedin the development of today's political struggles in Latin America andthe rest of the post-colonial world.
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About Me[edit]
Hello All
Guess if you don't know me already, or would like to know a little more, then I can oblige. I am a hacker and I'm proud to call myself one of the elite. I can disassemble, reassemble, alter, change, and manipulate anything from electronics, software, and life.
I view things not so much for appearances but for an accumulation of their working parts and points of failure.
A resume can be provided for anyone who asks. For now, I will just point you to the [linkedin] as it works for about any job I set my sights on. Or email me.
I will be adding various projects I am involved in. Bear with me. Documentation is to come.
I am working to make our MediaCenter more artistic using the seashell case to replace the Dell I previously built as our needs for A/V should not be an eyesore.
Part of setting up the A/V properly involves re-routing all the media and network cables through the hidden areas behind the member shelves. Which brings me to the next order of business: 2014MemberShelvesCleanup. As I am already assisting with a roundup and repair of the A/V for 5 minutes of fame, I would invite users with old projects they would like to part with to do so, or shoot me an email and I would be more than happy to assist you with whatever I can do. It looks like hell back there, folks!
Campbell's Sticky Note idea to deal with Member Shelves: Add a sticky note to items that don't seem to be in use, saying "THIS WILL BE MOVED IN 3(?) MONTHS!" and then come back to it later and see if it's been touched.
I will be hosting a set of hacker games intended to teach network security and I figure the best way to teach it is to let students have a safe area to attempt hacking without fear of persecution or incarceration. I will be adding coursework, a private hacking network, Virtualization Server Sleipnir for vulnerable vm hacking, and the rules, if any, shortly.
I have named this game 2014WarGames in memory of wargames
Also, we are upgrading the lighting to LED's throughout the building and, with my personal experience building Savonius wind turbines, together we can get our lighting, charging, and basic electrical needs off the grid.
The outside camera finally ceased to operate entirely. I ran new lines and even gave some night vision upgrades
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- I'm Qbit (talk) 04:42, 5 March 2014 (UTC), and I support Sid as an associate member of Noisebridge. He's a swell guy, and he has a long history as an accomplished tiger team specialist with Setec Astronomy.
- Bfb (talk) 05:38, 12 March 2014 (UTC) Sponsors Sid as yet another instance of excellence at Noisebridge
- Ravyn 22:00, 12 March 2014 (UTC) Sponsors Sid as yet another instance of excellence at Noisebridge
- My name is Sid and I hereby endorse myself! And I'm taking the ship too!!
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1-pound bag frozen shelled edamame
2 pounds raw peeled shrimp (thawed, if frozen)
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons ground black pepper
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
Start to finish: 15 minutes; servings: 8.
Heat the oven to 450 degrees. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil.
Place the edamame in a medium microwave-safe bowl and microwave for 1 to 2 minutes, or just long enough to slightly thaw. Pour off any liquid that has accumulated in the bowl, then transfer the edamame to the prepared baking sheet.
Add the shrimp to the baking sheet, then drizzle the oil over them and the edamame. Sprinkle with the pepper, salt and paprika. Use your hands to mix everything together, making certain the shrimp and edamame are well coated with the oil and seasonings. Arrange the ingredients in an even layer on the baking sheet.
Roast for 5 minutes, then use a spatula to turn the shrimp. Roast for another 2 to 3 minutes, or until the shrimp are just pink and firm. Serve immediately.
Nutrition information per serving: 250 calories; 100 calories from fat (40 percent of total calories); 11 g fat (1.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 170 mg cholesterol; 7 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 1 g sugar; 29 g protein; 890 mg sodium.
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With the Internet becoming almost ubiquitous, many end-user applications that include office applications (e.g. desktop videoconferencing, data backup for disaster recovery) and day-to-day consumer applications (e.g. online gaming, video-on-demand) have become network-dependent. These end-applications use network protocols that are complex and resource intensive.
This requires the best-effort structure of today's Internet to support massive flows of voice, video and data traffic while still maintaining consistent end-application performance. End-application performance over the Internet is directly impacted by the end-to-end performance bottlenecks present at the end-hosts and at the intermediate network paths. The bottleneck factors include cross-traffic congestion, cyber-attacks and optical link failures. Understanding the limitations and demands of advanced end-applications and developing suitable adaptation technologies is vital for supporting existing and emerging end-applications on the Internet.
The Networking Research group at OSC/OARnet is engaged in evaluating and developing novel and innovative, network-based end-applications. Also, the group develops techniques and open-source tools for network-awareness required for end-users to identify and isolate bottleneck scenarios. The end-applications targeted are: (a) Voice and Video over IP (VVoIP) for multi-point videoconferencing and video streaming (IPTV), (b) Remote Instrumentation for remote access of expensive scientific instrument resources, (c) Thin Client Cloud Computing for virtualization of user desktops along with their applications and data, and (d) Large-scale Data Transfers for grid computing and disaster data recovery. In addition, there are projects underway in the network security arena to enable Secure Videoconferencing, Detection of Active Worm Propagation, and Network Forensics Training. The group has setup several Network Monitoring Test Beds to collect human perceptual measures, throughputs for large-scale data transfers, and both active/passive network measurements.
Research findings from the above research projects are being implemented as human-aware and network-aware end-applications such as "Remote Instrumentation Collaboration Environment (RICE)" and as open source network measurement tools such as "H.323 Beacon" and "ActiveMon." These open source software packages are being widely used at institutions across Ohio, as well as in other academic and commercial communities worldwide.
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- Network Monitoring Testbeds
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- H.323 Beacon Project
- ActiveMon Project
- Network Forensics Training
- Large-Scale Data Transfers over the Internet
- OSCnet Measurement Project
- Detection of Active Worm Propagation
- Remote Backup of Critical Administrative Data for Disaster Recovery
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Event Archive - Dixieland Express
Sun. November 24th 2013 - Sun. November 24th 2013 @ Hermann's Jazz Club (All Ages)
4pm - 7pm doors at 3pm
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Dixieland Express (New Orleans/Swing)
Formed in 1980's, and still active: Current members: Leader/Trumpet: Norrie MacFarlane Trombone: Bob Cadwallader Clarinet/Soprano Sax: Lloyd Arntzen Banjo: Borgie Borgerson Piano: Tom Vickery Bass/Tuba: Don Cox Drums: Anita Bonkowski Former members include: Trombone: Jim Armstrong; Hugh Barclay. Sax/Clarinet: Al Pease; Roy Reynol... more info


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David A. Kelly 1929-2013
David Archie Kelly son of Joseph and Edith Livingston Kelly of Emmetsburg, passed away peace- fully with his family by his side, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, at the age of 84 at his home in Naples, FL. David was born May 18, 1929-30 minutes after his twin, Donald William.
Preceding him in death are his parents; brothers, John, Patrick, James, Donald and Raymond; and sisters, Catherine and Marie.
David graduated from Emmetsburg Catholic High School, Emmetsburg, in 1949 and served in the Army. He was stationed in Germany during the Korean War as an Army cook.
David will be remembered for his love of roller skating, golfing, dancing, and cooking on the grill.
He loved his family–brothers, sisters, son, daughter, five grandsons, many nieces, nephews, in-laws and his wife of over 50 years, Nadine.
David worked many years in the meat industry in Iowa-meat market manager, sales, process foreman in meat production; he owned and ran Kelly's Place, his Irish community bar and the movie theater in Corydon, IA; he sold gas grills and propane in Florida.
David assisted in starting Jaycees in Ida Grove and Sibley. In Corydon, he chaired the building committee for Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, started the Old Settlers omelet breakfast, and ran the Little League Food Stand for the Legion baseball program as well as introducing the St. Patrick's celebration.
Kelly's Place was the 'place to be' on St. Pat's with free ham and cabbage and green beer, Irish music and a fun time!
He got the Naples Walking Club to participate in the annual St. Pat's Parade in Naples, FL, and prepared the corned beef brisket for the dinner following the parade for a number of years.
He ushered and helped count offering at church and always enjoyed hugs from the ladies from church, walking club, and friends.
David will be sorely missed by his family-wife Nadine of Naples, FL; daughter Kathy (Todd) Bramley and grandsons Alec, Shane, and Conor of Albuquerque, NM, and son Michael (Sylvia) Kelly and grandsons Xavier and D. J. of Fort Myers, FL; brother Joe of California; sisters Kelly from New Mexico, Jean from Iowa and Jane from Illinois, plus a host of other relatives and friends.
A memorial service will be held Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 10 a.m. at Shepherd of the Glades Lutheran Church in Naples, FL.
Contributions in his memory may be made to Lutheran Social Service in Iowa, 3116 University Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50311.


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IBM master inventor Romilea Flores will simulate the now-famous appearance of Watson the computer on the television game show Jeopardy! when she speaks at SMU's Lyle School of Engineering Friday, March 30, 2012. The event, which will pit SMU students against faculty in answering Jeopardy!-style questions, begins at 2:30 p.m. in Vester Hughes Auditorium, Room 147, Caruth Hall.
Flores will share her behind-the-scenes view of the IBM computer that uses natural language to answer questions in a human fashion (and is named for the computing giant's first president, Thomas J. Watson). She will also talk about what's in store for this path-breaking creation.
In 2011, as a test of its abilities, Watson competed in a three-episode Jeopardy! contest for charity that remains the only human-vs.-machine match-up in the show's history. In a two-game match, Watson beat both Brad Rutter, the game show's biggest all-time money winner (more than $3.2 million), and Ken Jennings, the record holder for the longest championship streak (74 wins). IBM divided Watson's $1 million first prize between two charities: international humanitarian organization World Vision and the World Community Grid, an initiative to build the world's largest public computing grid to aid projects that benefit humanity, such as new treatments for HIV/AIDS, cancer research and affordable water purification.
Beginning at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 30, SMU alumnus and senior IBM leader Marty Salfen will discuss "IBM at 100: Reinventing the Modern Corporation" in Vester Hughes Auditorium. Salfen will offer a look at the key lessons IBM has learned about how to survive and thrive – examining how companies, institutions and, most importantly, individuals can get out ahead of change in today's technologically integrated environment.
Click the YouTube screen to see a short film about Watson's preparation for the Jeopardy! challenge, or click here to see Watson in action in a new window.


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Puig follows big league dream to All-Star Game
Slugger recalls watching 2011 Derby, asks champ Cano to borrow his pitcher dad
MINNEAPOLIS -- Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig remembers getting to see glimpses of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game when he was in his native Cuba.
"The one I really remember was 2011 with the Home Run Derby," he said, "with David Ortiz and Adrian Gonzalez and Robinson Cano."
Oh yes, Cano, whose father, Jose, a former big league pitcher, pitched while his son hit 12 home runs in the final round to beat Gonzalez and win the Derby title.
Now Puig and Cano are both All-Stars, and it was Cano's father who pitched to Puig in Monday night's Gillette Home Run Derby as a prelude to the All-Star Game at Target Field on Tuesday night.
The perhaps overeager Dodgers slugger recorded seven Derby outs without a homer, but his All-Star experience isn't done, as he'll join Dodgers teammates Dee Gordon, Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw on the National League squad on Tuesday. For Puig, the Cuban defector in his second year with the Dodgers, earning his first All-Star appearance has been particularly pleasing because it is the All-Star farewell for Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, who will retire at season's end.
"It was an honor for me to meet him last year, and now for me to be in my first All-Star Game when he is in his final All-Star Game makes me very humbled," Puig said through an interpreter. "Jeter has been the face of baseball since I can remember."
The face, however, is changing.
Jeter is moving on.
Some suggest that Puig could be the new face of the game.
Puig, however, isn't buying that.
"I don't see myself that way," he said. "The face of baseball, that is Miguel Cabrera or Mike Trout or Clayton Kershaw. They are the ones who have established themselves, not me."
Puig, however, is a part of a Cuban power trio that is making its presence felt in Major League Baseball. In addition to Puig on the NL team, the Home Run Derby has countrymen Yoenis Cespedes of the A's and Jose Abreu of the White Sox on the American League squad.
"It is an honor for us to be there among so many great players," Puig said. "We are all trying hard to make Cuba look good."
Puig, 23, is the youngest of the group, and he is the most flamboyant on the field.
The flamboyance, however, gave way to humility during Monday's Gatorade All-Star Workout Day.
"This is definitely the biggest moment of my career, right after last year winning in the [first round] of the playoffs and the champagne celebration," Puig said. "This will be the best moment until we play in and win the World Series."
The 85th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.


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