Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Railway Museum Will Stop You In Your Tracks

Photo by K. LeMaster/Building Cincinnati
Founded in 1975, the non-profit railway museum, located in the four-acre Latonia Yard, has a permanent collection of 37 pieces of historic equipment from the seven railroads entering Cincinnati.
So says Building Cincinnati, in a post about May’s Covington After Hours, about the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati.
I’ve probably driven down Decoursey [...]

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Buster, The Baby Bus

Here is something weird from Metro, your public transportation authority:
Buster, the Baby Bus
Born in 1998 just in time to celebrate Metro’s 25th anniversary, Buster shows up at area parades and community events. Buster was built on a go-kart frame and was created by a team of Metro mechanics who gave him such unique features as [...]

Wednesday, August 25th, 2004

Mass Transit, I hardly knew ya

A tour of the 2 mile tunnel today, as one might expect, is a surreal experience. As the tubes are just below street level, the sounds of automobiles, police sirens, and even sidewalk conversations can be heard through the vents, and the tunnels have that musty “subway smell”. Surprisingly, the 80 year old tunnels and [...]