Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, May 30, 1946. No drafting the rail workers and a new railroad time table.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, May 30, 1946. First post war Indianapol...: The Indianapolis 500 was run for the first time since 1941.  George Robson, took the race. Robson was killed in a racing accident that Septe...

Posted here not for the headlines, but for the new railroad table and the end of an absurd strike busting plan.

Thursday, May 30, 1946. First post war Indianapolis 500.

The Indianapolis 500 was run for the first time since 1941.  George Robson, took the race.

Robson was killed in a racing accident that September.

Over 90 passengers were killed in a railway accident at Hengyang, China.

The day prior the Senate had defeated a really badly thought out plan by Truman to draft striking rail workers.

Air travel was expanding.

Last edition:

Saturday, May 25, 1946. Jordanian independence, Railroad strike ends.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Harry S. Truman, Jordan, Labor unrest, Monarchy, Railroads, Strike Wave of 1945-1946, Unions

Rio Grande Depot, Salt Lake City Utah.

This very classic city train station in Salt Lake City was built in 1910. A beautiful structure, it now houses Utah's state historical offices, the Utah History Center and the Rio Grande Cafe.

The station is probably also emblematic, in some ways, of the decline in passenger rail service.  Only a few blocks off of downtown, the neighborhood can be a rough one at certain times of the day and the presence of police cars in these photographs isn't accidental, a there is a City of Salt Lake police station very near by.  Early in the morning large crowds of the homeless gather as a Catholic relief mission just across the street.