John Morris

Author of "Subway," a seriously fun, illustrated history + celebration, and "King of Capital" re Blackstone. Aficionado of absurdity.

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@rbrtrmstrng I know what takeout I’m ordering tonight!

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@100YearsAgoLive Part of it simply tracked the Berlin-Baghdad railroad built by the Germans to supply the Ottoman forces fighting the British in Iraq.
Of note: This map shows Hatay as part of Syria before the French, who controlled Syria in 1926, ceded it. It became a Turkish province in 1939.

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@americanrails Odd that an AT&SF publicity shot would have a Southern Pacific train in the background. 🤔

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@lexlanham Did you know you were in need of translation?

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What a time to be alive

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@lexlanham This reminds me of the time I came to a professional acquaintance’s holiday party. I hadn’t yet met his wife and couldn’t remember if her name was Gay or Joy. I thought it was the former.
My worst fear was realized when she answered the door. I found myself saying, “Are you Gay?”

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@jayacoop @ZoeTillman Actually, sounds more like a human who didn’t know how to extract numbers from a database.

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@BobMann2001 @YAppelbaum The 2’30” trains back, then made no stops between New York and Washington.

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@dangainor @BobMann2001 @YAppelbaum No. There are no freight trains on the North East Corridor during the hours when Amtrak operates.

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@NigelTalkWall @YAppelbaum That’s not true on the North East Corridor. There are some limited freight operations along short stretches over night, but no freight trains during the hours when Amtrak operates. It’s not safe to mix slow freight trains and high-speed passenger trains on the same tracks.

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@Oriana0214 What ever happened to fear of being mugged?

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@SamOgozalek @Oriana0214 @politico Why?

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@juliaioffe The headline and lede are misleading, but the story says it only applies to outstanding audits, citing DOJ, and the NYT reports that it only applies to pending investigations. But the language of the agreement is unclear on that:

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@vintagemapstore A swamp is not the same thing as a stream. And “creek” (some places pronounced “crick”) is probably as common in all regions as “stream.”

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@SMB_Attorney @LeTocquevilain The FT:

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@vintagemapstore At a time when the farm economy was falling into a deep depression after the agricultural price supports of WWI were removed and crop prices plummeted.

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@WeirdMedieval This is true of many museums and archives. They possess the original and therefore can impose conditions and charges for access.

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@brhodes Justified or aberrations.

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@uppereastsiteny More alarming to me is the idea of relocating Amsterdam Avenue to the UES, as the illustration suggests. That could really mess things up.
@ABarnardNYC

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@villavec @vintagemapstore @grok Nope. I lived in Canada for 15 years and visit regularly. Only one of my many Canadian friends makes people take their shoes off in his apartment.