Tag: train

• THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

  

  Beware the number thirteen – at least when it comes to the trains running near Spuyten Duyvil station in the NYC borough of the Bronx. The number thirteen seems to vex this particular station and the notoriously sharp curve located nearby. On a cold January day in 1882, Friday the 13th to be exact, an […]

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  March 13, 2020

  RABBIT HOLE

  disaster, duyvil, numerology, railroad, railway, spuyten, train

• LEFT AT THE STATION

  

  I came across this interesting old story from The Cincinnati Enquirer, August 11, 1925. Can you imagine a coffin just sitting out at a subway station, unclaimed for days? COFFIN LOST IN TRANSITBody Lies on Station Platform fore Removal To Cincinnati.After having been sent from Chicago to Marinette, Wisconsin, by mistake, and later lying outside […]

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  March 3, 2019

  RABBIT HOLE

  casket, chicago, cincinnati, coffin, lost, station, train, wisconsin