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alex 🪴 @faintingincoils@mastodon.social · 6d ago
While having brunch this morning we watched this 1965 NFB classic of Buster Keaton crossing #Canada on a rail maintenance vehicle #movies #SilentFilms #trains #railroad #NFB https://www.nfb.ca/film/railrodder/
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Gemma Seymour @gcvrsa@mastodon.social · Jul 27, 2026
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Every single limited access highway in an urban area should be torn down and replaced with urban fabric and revitalization of our crumbling rail system, which is the single most important improvement to our public #transportation policy we could possibly make. #urbanism Not #HighSpeedRail, just fix the existing conventional rail system, and put back into service #railroad rights-of-way that have been unwisely abandoned.
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MikeDunnAuthor
MikeDunnAuthor @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · Jul 26, 2026
Today in Labor History July 26, 1894: President Grover Cleveland created a Strike Committee to investigate the causes of the Pullman strike and the subsequent walkout by the American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs. After four months, the commission absolved the strikers and placed the blame entirely on Pullman and the railroads for the conflict. Roughly 250,000 workers participated in the strike. An estimated 70 workers died, mostly at the hands of cops and soldiers. To appease workers, the government came up with a new holiday, Labor Day, to commemorate the end of the Pullman Strike. However, President Cleveland had other interests in creating the new holiday. Rather than rewarding workers, his goal was to bury the history of the Haymarket Affair and the radical anarchist and socialist history of the labor movement by choosing any day other than May 1 as the new national labor holiday. On May 1, 1886, 350,000 workers went on strike across the U.S. to demand the eight-hour workday. It was the world’s first May Day/International Workers’ Day demonstration—an event that has been celebrated ever since, by nearly every country in the world, except for the U.S. Two days later, Chicago Police and Pinkertons attacked protesters, killing at least one person. On May 4, anarchists organized a demonstration at Haymarket Square to protest that police violence. Somebody threw a bomb, which killed at least one cop. The police opened fire, killing another seven workers. Six police also died, likely from “friendly fire” by other cops. The authorities went on a witch hunt, rounding up most of the city’s leading anarchists and radical labor leaders. They ultimately convicted seven anarchists, even though none of them were present at Haymarket Square when the bomb was thrown, and executed four of them in 1887, including Albert Parsons. After her husband’s execution, Lucy Parsons continued her radical organizing, writing, and speeches. In 1905, Lucy cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, James Connolly, and others. You can read my complete article about the Great Upheaval here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/31/the-great-upheaval/ You can read my biography of Lucy Parsons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/ #workingclass #LaborHistory #pullman #strike #railroad #eugenedebs #socialism #laborday #haymarket #anarchism #union #policebrutality #police #IWW #lucyparsons #pinkertons #mayday
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MikeDunnAuthor
MikeDunnAuthor @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · Jul 26, 2026
Today in Labor History July 26, 1877: Federal troops killed up to 30 workers at the "Battle of the Viaduct," Chicago, during the Great Upheaval (AKA Great Train Strike). This came after the Workingmen’s Party (affiliated with the First International), organized a rally of six thousand people. At this gathering, a former Confederate Army Officer from Waco, Texas, named Albert Parsons, gave a fiery speech. The events of the Great Upheaval radicalized Parsons and his wife Lucy. In the years following it, they became some of the nation’s leading anarchist organizers. The state executed him in 1887 as one of the Haymarket Martyrs who had been fighting for the eight-hour workday. His widow, Lucy, an African American woman, went on to cofound the radical Industrial Workers of the World, in 1905, along with Mother Jones, Eugene Debs, Big Bill Haywood, and others. The day after Parsons’ speech, protests erupted. Police fired into the crowd, killing three men. The next day, an armed demonstration of 5,000 workers fought the police and soldiers in the Battle of the Viaduct, when they killed as many as 30 more workers and injured over one hundred. One journalist wrote, “The sound of clubs falling on skulls was sickening for the first minute, until one grew accustomed to it. A rioter dropped at every whack, it seemed, for the ground was covered with them.” A judge later found the police guilty of preventing the workers from exercising their right to freedom of speech and assembly The Great Upheaval was a national strike wave involving major uprisings in Martinsburg, WV, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Boston, Reading, PA, New York and many other cities. I write about it in my historical “Great Upheaval Trilogy.” My first book, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” takes place in the years immediately preceding the Great Upheaval. Book II, “Red Hot Summer in the Smoky City,” my current WIP, takes place in Pittsburgh, at the height of the Great Upheaval. You can read my complete article about the Great Upheaval here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/31/the-great-upheaval/ You can read my biography of Lucy Parsons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/ And you can get my book ANYWHERE BUT SCHUYLKILL from these indie book sellers: https://www.keplers.com/ https://www.greenapplebooks.com/ Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy! #workingclass #LaborHistory #chicago #massacre #railroad #GeneralStrike #wildcat #strikewave #IWW #socialism #haymarket #anarchism #lucyparsons #policebrutality #policemurder #fiction #novel #historicalfiction #writer #author #books @bookstadon@a.gup.pe
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plzupgrademe @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca · Jul 24, 2026
Love a hotel room with a view of a train stastion. Here is a photo of Osaka Station in Japon taken from the Osaka Ritz Carlton #japon #japan #trains #trainspotting #railfanning #rail #railroad #skylines #cities #trainstation #bahnhof #bahnbilder #bahn #기차
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Bluejay @bluejay@ohai.social · Jul 03, 2026
#FotoVorschlag “Man kann es hören” (You can hear it) A steam locomotive on the historic Strasburg Rail Road in Lancaster County, PA. Choo choo! #photography #train #locomotive #steamtrain #railroad
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Fedi.Video @FediVideo@social.growyourown.services · Jun 17, 2026
Boosted by fedicat @fedicat@pc.cafe
Simon Wood makes cute videos about model railways running through real life gardens. You can follow at: ➡️ @simonwood Don't worry if the account looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start showing up on your server too. #FeaturedPeerTube #ModelRailways #Trains #Railway #Railroad #Gardens #PeerTube
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elaterite
Bob Tregilus @elaterite@mastoart.social · Apr 08, 2026
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Union Pacific No.4014 "Big Boy," a 4-8-8-4 steam engine, rolling along the southern edge of the Black Rock playa in Nevada yesterday morning. I'm off to try and catch the 4014 crossing the Clio trestle tomorrow morning. There's a forecast for rain and the humidity will be high. High humidity makes for nice steamy steam engines! 2/x #Train #Trains #RailRoad #Railway #RailFan #UP4014 #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Photography #Darktable
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Bob Tregilus @elaterite@mastoart.social · Apr 09, 2026
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The Union Pacific No.4014 "Big Boy," a 4-8-8-4 steam engine built in 1941, rolling over the Clio Trestle on the historic Feather River Route in Northern California this morning. I was hoping for some steam action because it was cool and humid, as compared to two years ago when the 4014 last traveled this route, but I didn't expect this! 3/x #Steam #SteamEngine #RailFan #Travel #Railway #RailRoad #Train #Trains #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Photography #Darktable
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Bob Tregilus @elaterite@mastoart.social · Apr 09, 2026
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The nice and steamy Union Pacific No.4014 "Big Boy," a 4-8-8-4 steam engine built in 1941, rolling through the Sierra along the historic Feather River Route in Northern California this morning. 4/x #Steam #SteamEngine #RailFan #Travel #Railway #RailRoad #Train #Trains #Photography #Darktable
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Bob Tregilus @elaterite@mastoart.social · Apr 13, 2026
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It was a challenging day chasing the UP No.4014. It was very slow coming up the hill in the Feather River Canyon. By the time it got in the area where I was, it was late in the day and the light was fading fast. With the rain, and snow further up the hill, the 4014 was really blowing steam! (Keddie Wye, Feather River Canyon, Northern California.) 5/x #Train #Trains #RailRoad #RailWay #RailFan #California #Photography
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Bob Tregilus @elaterite@mastoart.social · Apr 14, 2026
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Here's a shot of the 4014 before it past under me to enter the Williams Loop in the Feather River Canyon of Northern California. It was really boiling steam and smoke chugging up hill in the Sierra. 7/x #Trains #Train #RailWay #RailRoad #SteamEngine #Photography #Darktable
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Obsidian Urbex Photography @ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social · Dec 23, 2025
Boosted by Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop
🚂 Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad No. 643, the sole surviving H-1 class 2-10-4 "Texas" type steam locomotive engine built in 1944 by Lima Locomotive Works. Weighing around 520,000 lb, it is one of the heaviest steam locomotives ever built. Photos from 2018, when it sat #abandoned in an impound. Now it is restored and part of the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum in Sugarcreek, Ohio. #Photography #Trains #Steam #SteamTrain #Locomotive #Railroad #Restoration #History #Rust
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