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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria

@dariaphoebe.com

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Angry old woman. intersectional urbanist, fascinator wearing cyclist, storyteller/poet; distributed systems dev. @marie.tech’s wife. PVD via OAK,BOS&PIT. she/her

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 4h

Oh I remember. Some (real) businesses also became permanently dead to me at the time.

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 4h

Dylan, will you Grant that this sounds like someone we know?

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 4h

RETVRN!

A Mack-built “FCD” railbus belonging to the New Haven Railroad passing through Millville MA while serving the Providence to Worcester route

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 4h

The owner of the vegan restaurant on the street has been an outspoken opponent.

When the mayor sought testimony, all but one of of the hundreds of testifiers told him to leave it alone.

Of course, no one is looking into it... just falling in line.

www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

11th-hour push against Providence's South Water Street bike lane might be too little too late

The city's project will narrow the street from two lanes to one, and expand its existing bike lane.

www.providencejournal.com

Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 4h

One more fun Providence subway tidbit: when the 1914 proposal was being worked on, a random guy (who may or may not have really existed) started writing irate letters to city council, angry that he, personally, had not been consulted on these important changes to the city.

An article about a supposed Mr H W Martin of New york who was upset that as a person who planned to build a hotel in Providence (plans not heretofore available) that he had not been included in consultation on these downtown changes

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 7h

When you get to Providence enjoy our lovely riverside bike lane now, while you can, before our mayor rips it out.

Providence South Water St bike lane with the city skyline behind.

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 7h

So did Google.

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 8h

Before I even read the caption I knew.

Real ones know?

Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 17h

I have a flatbed and one of those upright things with an arm that just takes pictures of each “page”. I have a workflow set up for OCR and archival-PDFing the result.

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 18h

MA already has soccer. Ours is better

Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 20h

At long last I have my tracking number for this! UPS doesn’t have it yet, but, there’s hope!

GMT Games @gmtgames.bsky.social · 15d

Really great BGG designer diary from Non-Breaking Space. Check it out!

Or if you'd like to order Cross Bronx Expressway, you can find it on the GMT website here: www.gmtgames.com/p-953-cross-...

Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 21h

The pic was from August!

Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

You should look at Jake Berman’s book if you haven’t. www.lostsubways.com

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

Getting killed in the group chat today.

Daria I am begging you to stop posting about the subway
14:56
For everyone's collective mental health
14:56
You cannot put a rendering of the east side tunnel with a subway and bikes running through it in front of my eyes I will melt into a puddle

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

It was gonna be a streetcar subway in 1914. In 1923 they were looking at something more semi-metro apparently

Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

Anyway since I’m still stirring the pot, here’s a parting shot on the subway topic for today.

A newspaper with a bold heading on the front page: People Demand Subways. The paper is the Evening News of Providence RI from March 12, 1914.

Spoiler: no one listened to the population’s demands then, either. It’s not a new problem.

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

That’s Ervin. He… is far better with a drum than I am!

Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

We're Defiance 1636 members but we're also old so we have seats rather than standing with La Banda and the other folks bringing the hype!

Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

I love that (if you look carefully) you can pick me out in the crowd on the far side of the stadium... by my hair 😂

Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · 1d

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/24/m...

Drums, dreams, and devotion: A new soccer passion blooms in Pawtucket, R.I. - The Boston Globe

The Rhode Island Football Club is a two-year-old men’s soccer team that plays in the second-division United Soccer League.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

There are few enough buses in it that it’s not a big deal. I don’t know if when they first converted it if it was more an issue tho

Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

Ventilation would have been exciting.

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

I'm still on my shit about Providence's big plans. How about the Daniels-Manton plan of 1906, which was one of the earlier east side trolley (now bus) tunnel plans... except it would have also have a way for cars(!), pedestrians and bikes to climb College Hill in the tunnel!

Another East Side Subway Plan with a rendering showing the tunnel with streetcar tracks, vehicle lanes and sidewalks

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

Given Scott Molloy’s book includes drawings I haven’t seen, I bet RIHS has something.

www.google.com/books/editio...

All Aboard

All Aboard: The History of Mass Transportation in Rhode Island covers the period from the Civil War to the creation of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA). Each of the seven chapters exa...

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

I biked to a coffee shop, where I am now working (outside)

Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1d

I want to visit RIHS, I suspect that’s the best hope. I’m a member. I just haven’t managed it yet.

I’m not aware of Aldermanic archives and the city archives folks didn’t suggest it.

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