I can verify - as a good friend of Ryan's, I can verify that his wallet was really embarrassing on those very few occasions when he took it out. LOL. So you can imagine - I'm really looking forward to hanging out with Ryan and his Ekster Wallet. So many cards to choose from!!!

The lookout mountain from Cameron hill illustration might be from Chattanooga Tennessee

Fun fact for those who want to know what the word EKSTER means. Ekster is the Dutch worde for Magpie. Magpies are popularly known for "stealing" shiny objects like jewelry and silver teaspoons and bringing them to the nest. The magpie is an unmistakable bird with its black and white plumage and very long, shiny green tail. The magpie often builds covered nests. A Belgian.

Ironically, Cincinnati is the only US city to own an interstate railway, the Cincinnati Southern. It's still in use with tracks terminating in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Having had back pain from your *wallet* is pretty laughable...

they took the money to make a street car that goes to nowhere

@@imchris5000 That's my preferred Ohio destination: nowhere

@@imchris5000 surprise,surprise,surprise!

The internet cables can stay, as they run on the walls, the pipe is still a problem though.

@@imchris5000 the real question is do you get your money back after riding the train to nowhere??, I’m just asking???,

Cincinnati's problems were not easily predictable, ahead of time. Also, big city politicians in Ohio were still possessed by a mindset that they easily could meet the threat of the most productive workers fleeing the cities by just annexing the suburbs. However, suburbs had been given Home Rule--I think between 1900 and 1912; The multiple impacts of Home Rule had not yet become obvious to big city politicians.

The Brooklyn bridge was inspired by the roebling bridge

@@franzzrilich9041 relax....you've got a good football team...better not lose another one though...

@@frankpienkosky5688 I used to be a newspaper reporter, and came across stuff about Big Football that was depressing, so I then went into technical writing.

even a little thing like the PNC building missing it's pointed top, just leaves the skyline missing something of old world beauty. people don't even realize that PNC building upon completion was the tallest skyscraper outside of NYC, and we can't even replace the original pointed top today so they just removed it and didn't bother replacing. stuff like this frustrates me, it's a coverup of history, and it's only a small historical detail removed.

That sounds REALLY really interesting. I'm a huge railfan. Do you by chance have any links on some of those abandoned rail systems? Videos, pictures or documentaries? Thanks for your time .

The tracks were inside the manufacturing buildings inside the GE complex. Most of those buildings no longer exist, torn down during the Jack Welsh administration.

I believe its proof of the ACTUAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. THAT WE KEEP FINDING PROOF OF. THAT THEY SAY NEVER EXISTED. jus a lil critical thinking🤫

Were these inter plant freight only?Was employee transport included?

Small tracks. Probably used to transport materials to and from different buildings.

Of course it was the evil barrons fault, not the three person city appointed board that signed off on a subway too narrow for the tight corners and the ity council themselves. It never is the government or appointed boards fault for signing off on a white elephant, for something the city was paying for, and retaining ownership, giving the barron no profit motive, so what if someone supported the principle, I'm sure many workers did too, the government is to blame.

@@Right-Is-Right you don’t have to believe me. I’m just telling you what I was told by historians who run the Cincinnati Room at the Hamilton County Library 🤷‍♂️

Love those guys 🤘

Never heard of them before, so just to check their icon is two white human figures, in ties?

Nothing that cant be solved. To reuse the tunnels for transportation a lot of work has to be done to meet todays standards (security and so..) It wont be cheap, but maybe still worth it.

Those guys have some great content.

​@@wizardsghost876I think the subway can still be revived for future rapid transit use . The tunnel should not be dismantled.

It sounds, and looks, more likely that there wasn't sufficient headroom between the cars and tunnel roofs to safely install the overhead trolley wires without the risk of flashover

There is head room. The Cincinnati subway was to use a third rail not overhead wire. The original cars design was for 60' cars similar to Bostons red line cars. Note: the designer for Boston's Red line extention in Cabridge designed the Cincinnati subway I believe.

@@dathpo Yeah sure, I get that. I was referring to the proposal to repurpose the subway for streetcars with overhead pickups. Or do you mean that the streetcars were to use a 3rd rail pickup in the Subway sections?

@@phaasch that is perfectly possible. Chicago ’s North Shore Line’s cars ran onto and through the Loop. The luxurious Electroliners did the same. Using overhead wire in the ’burbs and third rail on the El. Oslo had subway cars doing the same (switching to and from third rail/overhead).

I was referring to the as designed system from the 1920's using 3rd rail. The Cinti. subway tunnel height is 14'9".from top of the rail. Cinti's CAF urbos cars are 11' 1.75" high. (roof/pantograph?) Boston's Green line tunnels are 12' - 15' they've been in operation for more than a century.. The Cint subway tunnels can handle lightrail. When, where, and at what cost? Who knows.

I knew it was a Toronto streetcar right away because I noticed the "Dundas" in the nearest scrollsign

Haha I noticed that too

that one on Johnstown was bigger...actually carried cars...much like a ferry....Pittsburgh had a huge boondoggle when they built an unnecessary,half-billion dollar tunnel under the river...its munchkin subway system ended right there...probably a big mistake to move away from streetcars as most cities have done...the system was efficient, clean & green and should have been retained....

America was THIS 👌close by having that monorail. And that monorail still exist in Europe, looking like that.

That's what she said

Location?

I thought Turkeys could fly!!! LOL

If you have over-the-air TV, there's a WKRP Weekend Binge going on next weekend on the Decades channel. Oh, and Gordon Jump has also passed away.

@@MrThecroatian Yes and the producer Hugh Wilson died too great show

Loved that show!!

Freaking great show! Great theme song, too!

I'm just impressed that his old wallet was giving him back ache when he had it in his back pocket... What the heck was he carrying in it !?! 😂

@@karengreenwell8842 them youtube bux🤣🤣🤣🤣

You are very smart Chris W. In Los Angeles we have the same issue. People confused about what is as opposed to what's not. Our metropolis is growing beyond it's capacity and the future is predetermined. I can only pray for a successful outcome.

I found your comment interesting. If true it's difficult trusting any source.

@@ChrisBrown-pu8sm it is true. Says TTC right on it and Dundas on sign board which is a big street in Toronto

Cincinnati was probably worried about "vagabonding currents", which is return current following such things as water or gas pipes back to the rectifyer station, when the resistance in the rails become too great (due to, for example, poor joining), or poor connection between tracks and return cables). Where the current leaves the pipes, it "etches" holes in them. It's probably for the same reason London’s Underground uses two rails for the power (it could also be because much of the tunnels are in iron/steel pipes, and they didn't want return currents going astray). Nominal voltage for tram systems, subways and trolley bus systems has been 600 volts. The overhead was energized at 600V= +, and the tracks were at the same potential as ground. Some trolley bus systems used +600 V in one wire and ground in the other, common in cities where they also had trams. Other systems used (and use) +300V and -300V in the wires, probably making for easier installment. London’s Underground uses ≈ +400 V and ≈ -200 V in its conductor rails. If your system is totally insulated, like Cincinnati’s, you won't have to worry about vagabonding currents.

The select few banks and corporations grew so powerful from the war effort they began to exert that to further their own aims. Like GM buying Cincinnati’s street car lines just to shut them down and sell more cars. That happened all over the country.

Youre romanticizing a horrid time in this countrys history, especially for the "Have nots". Great time for people with no empathy whatsoever.

You just have romantic notions of yesteryear and no appreciation of the tech you are on now.

Technology is great...when it works!

@@freetolook3727 Cry me a river about that time your phone did not work, lets ignore that telegraph then phone lines would go down for months in the "good old days". You are not tough and there is no spark in that brain case of yours. Just whaaa I'm so opressed by all the air con heating and transport available, as well as everything I would ever want to know about any subject at my fingertips.

The train terminal has been restored as is museum and still serves as a train station

remember those electric busses...we rode them when we were in town to tour that army supply depot...needed them to escape that army sgt who spent all day counting toilet paper...we wanted to get down to the OSU campus and get at those co-eds

Oh yeah! I do remember these "electric busses" quite well. Running through the major downtown section was all electric. The old power station still exists along the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy river. After the electric busses ceased to exist the power plant continued to run providing power to the downtown buildings for about another decade until it was merged with Then Columbus And Southern Power system which was later merged with AEP. There was also a secondary bus system that served the Suburb of Upper Arlington for almost two decades until it merged with the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA).

once known for its pigs...

I did the same 60 yrs. ago

They would have been burning coal to make that power. The New York City subway uses 1.8 billion kilowatt hours a year, which would require about 1.5 billion pounds of coal to produce. I doubt it would have much of an impact on the automotive industry either considering how most people who would ride the subway already take the bus.

@@deejayimm that's not the subway's fault, that's on the power companies. If the subway is consuming coal power then the rest of the city and populace using that grid is doing the exact same thing

*its

Oh wow, interesting idea. So the city officially ignored the laws?

A rail station

Where's the rails? Where the tracks should be are reflective like water.

Union Terminal station. The rails are on the back - not visible in this pcture. The reflective part is wet asphalt.

Ahhh, thanks!

Cleveland, Ohio has an above ground rapid transit system called the Red Line, that was built in the 1950-1965 period and runs from the basement of the Cleveland Union Terminal Tower on Public Square to the far east side of Cleveland, and then to the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. The Red Line dips into a tunnel when it enters Hopkins. The views of the landscape of Cleveland from the Red Line are very depressing. Most of Industrial Cleveland was rapidly abandoned from the end of the Korean War and to the end of Vietnam. So, all that you see from the train are roofless factory shells with lots of large trees growing in them. The largest employers left in Cleveland are several hospitals. Realistically, the Red Line also has non-existent public toilets at most stations, so there are pools of urine in places. And groups of unruly school kids terrorizing the commuters. As regards the Airdock in Akron, it was renovated two decades ago by a wealthy buyer of a private blimp. I used to work in the buildings clustered by the Airdock, which originally were an industrial complex called Goodyear Aircraft, then Loral, and now is part of Lockheed Martin. Almost nothing goes on at Lockheed Martin, since the end of the Cold War. Blimps are not made there, anymore. NASA has a large industrial research center on the west side of the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. Several hundred scientists and engineers work there on propulsion systems for both spacecraft and airplanes. There are tours of the Glenn Research Center, as it is called, but you should call ahead of time. Most Americans do not know this, but NASA has a very close relationship with the Department of Defense, so you will see some strange things there. Because Glenn is surrounded by houses and Hopkins, nothing secret is normally kept there.

The Cincinnati Airport across the river in Kentucky was designed after Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport. There is an underground system that has a central pedestrian walkway bordered by a rail car system on each side of it that runs between the three terminals. This was a hub for Delta Airlines until it was abandoned due to the companies restructuring. Delta has reached out to get more regional airlines to use the facilities. Just before their pullout the Airport had just finished a runway and terminal expansion project that would have allowed the then New A380 aircraft to land there. Money all gone to waste.

@@Subgunman interesting stuffs. Buddy, I was only in there long enough to feed my face and shop for gifts, Definitely some great hotdogs as well as Awesome fish meals, I’ve been in. There a few times, So it wasn’t like I was stiffing my face, I was either going to Toronto or coming back from Toronto,’m Still that airport was a nice experience, Thanks for the info and take care of yourself buddy

Especially with the state of the water main running through it.

But Cincinnati has also rejected these ideas before. Also, does Cincinnati have the population and funds available to actually back up the projects of many light rail lines? It seems they have been proposed in the past almost for a few decades. Nothing was really done and the things that were done weren’t used to their potential like a super expensive bus hub that’s near the stadiums that sit basically empty as of now.

Plus I like the idea of extending the streetcar to actually be useful like an extension to the untion terminal and some neighborhoods as well as the university areas but I also am not looking too hopeful because the city isn’t exactly fully even looking into it. Plus light rail projects and streetcar projects are much more than bus expansion and service upgrades which the city is not even doing well enough either.

The city itself probably can’t afford light rail lines, but they would serve beyond city borders. Ideally funding comes from the county and state. But with Ohio beyond mostly Red, good luck.

Wow! This must be some kind of code! What's it mean, guys?😮