Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
September 25, 2009 After three months of construction, a train station in the central part of Washington State was officially opened. Icicle Station is located just one mile (1.6 kilometers) northeast of the downtown area of the city of Leavenworth. This station is served by the Amtrak-operated Empire Builder, a daily long-distance passenger train that... Continue Reading →
September 24, 1961 An ocean liner built by Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico (Italian for “United Shipbuilders of the Adriatic”) for the shipping company Lloyd Triestino was launched in northeastern Italy’s comune (municipality) of Monfalcone, which is located along the Gulf of Trieste. (That gulf is the northernmost region of the Adriatic Sea.) The ocean liner was... Continue Reading →
In the years since it became one of the original routes of the U.S. Numbered Highway System, U.S. Route 66 (US 66) has left an enduring and unrivaled cultural imprint. Journalist and historian Michael Wallis (born in 1945) summarized this legacy in his 1990 best-selling book Route 66: The Mother Road. “Route 66,” Wallis noted... Continue Reading →
September 21, 1990 In the Belgian city and municipality of Antwerp, a newly built underground station first went into operation. Van Eeden station is in Antwerp’s suburb of Linkeroever on the left bank of the river Scheldt. (“Linkeroever” is the Dutch phrase for “left bank.”) The station is part of the Antwerp premetro, which encompasses... Continue Reading →
September 18, 2020 A bus terminal in Patliputra (also officially known as Patna), the capital and largest city of eastern India’s state Bihar, made its public debut. This type of building is classified as an Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT), a facility that provides bus services to destinations both within the state where it is located... Continue Reading →
September 17, 2001 In northeastern England’s ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear, a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists in the city and metropolitan borough of Newscastle upon Tyne (more simply known as Newcastle) was opened to the public. This bridge, crossing the River Tyne, serves as a link between the major arts and cultural center... Continue Reading →
On June 18, 1925, the sixth of the regional meetings of the Joint Board on Interstate Highways was held in Boston for the New England states. The specific location for this gathering was the boardroom of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works in the Massachusetts State House. This building, which was constructed during the 1790s,... Continue Reading →
September 14, 2009 Fair Park station became one of the four original stops of the Green Line of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), an agency serving the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex of Texas, to be opened to the public. Fair Park station is in the South Dallas neighborhood of the Lone Star State city famously... Continue Reading →
The terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 individuals in the vicinity of the World Trade Center in the southernmost part of New York City’s borough of Manhattan; the Pentagon in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area; and – where a hijacked airplane went down after... Continue Reading →
September 10, 2010 A major milestone for bicycling in the Washington, DC., area took place when Capital Bikeshare (abbreviated as CaBi) made its formal debut. At the time, this system had a grand total of 400 bicycles at 49 stations. Ashley Halsey III vividly described the launch of CaBi in the next day’s edition of... Continue Reading →
