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• Scott Sanford commented on Official Announcement: April Fools Day is Cancelled
  AIUI it is common practice for American cities served by several different railroads to have compelled them to overlook their differences and all run into one big shared station in the middle. Indeed; it's very common to find a Union Station in many American cities. For example, Washington DC has theirs only 800m north of the Capitol Building (map). Pittsburgh has theirs downtown in the middle of everything (map) and it looks pretty too. In Portland Oregon it's downtown beside the river, where clueless people who bought overpriced riverfront condos complain about rail yard noise (map and interior view) -...
• David L commented on Official Announcement: April Fools Day is Cancelled
  You made me look. I lived in the Pittsburgh area for 7 years and had multiple nice meals at the ex-station Station Square. Which was the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station way back when. And I have no recollection of the Union Station. And for someone who lived and worked on the other side of the SH tunnels I was downtown a lot. And then there is the big pair. Midtown Manhattan has Grand Central and Penn station. Penn station is completely underground with the above ground being torn down a long time back and is now Madison Square...
• David L commented on Official Announcement: April Fools Day is Cancelled
  Women in IT / Stem But most of them hated dealing with the sophomoric boys club that existed in so many places. I got push back here on this from some. Interestingly the US PBS show NOVA just did a 90 minute segment on this. Almost as if I wrote the script. Francis Crick shows up early in the program and it's not a nice showing. I have no idea who can watch it when or where. PBS is still trying to figure out how to deal with putting things on the internet. I recorded it via a DVR and...
• Scott Sanford commented on Official Announcement: April Fools Day is Cancelled
  I lived in the Pittsburgh area for 7 years and ... I have no recollection of the Union Station. Oh! Is it called something else by the locals? I've never been to Pittsburgh but read some Wen Spencer stories; she's gives a good sense of place and I got the urge to drop down in Google Earth and look at Pittsburgh. Union Station was one of the named locations and I happened to remember that when writing about the various other ones....
• David L commented on Official Announcement: April Fools Day is Cancelled
  I just looked it up on a map. I just never had a reason to go there. Or just didn't notice it. I did walk around the downtown way more than most of the people I worked with. Much of it walking about. I just never dealt with that train station. It was on the side of town where, at the time, was mostly businesses. Mid rise offices and/or small manufacturing. This was the mid 80s. Now they did put in the infamous 3 stop subway while I was there. (Anyone remember the movie Flash Dance?) Which was the butt...