Here's a tweet from none other than Stephanie McMahon who's touting this new development. Ultimately WWE Network programming will become part of the offerings to NBC's Peacock service. And I understand the price for joining Peacock will be much lower than the WWE Network's often touted price of $9.99
[VIDEO] Arn Anderson is a legend in the business and he had his match with Mega Man back in the World Wrestling Federation in the 1980s. Mega Man Magee was noted as a future star however as Anderson noted Magee was limited in his ability as a wrestler. He fizzled out long before I started watching the then WWF.
As Anderson also noted the great match that Magee had with Bret "The Hitman" Hart was noted as a great match although since Magee was limited it was probably The Hitman who carried most of the match. Made sure to make Mega Man look very good which was his role. As it turned out The Hitman would be the next big star in WWE. You can watch this match on the WWE Network.
There's a new webcam from Virtual Railfan which you can enjoy on YouTube from Tucson, Arizona. Here you will see Amtrak's Sunset Limited stop on there east-west runs. Here's an introduction [VIDEO]
And here's the webcam itself a PTZ (point, tilt, & zoom - heh I learned through the above video what that meant for the first time). It's cool to see what goes on in this part of the state of Arizona since Tucson is further south. [VIDEO]
This is a one-month demo so if nothing else if you go to Virtual Railfan's website you will be able to view the live action there. Though even if Tucson doesn't stay on YouTube on a permanent basis it might be up as cam of the week every now and then.
Here's the Amtrak Sunset Limited schedule and another interesting note that also attached to this train is a section of the Texas Eagle. Texas Eagle has a section that would continue from Chicago through San Antonio, Texas and west into Los Angeles, California. That section would be attached to the Sunset Limited in San Antonio and send those passengers on their way west.
[VIDEO] Shot this video waiting for a train back into downtown from my Sony MiniDV camcorder. I see those old 2200 series cars with those "blinker" or what I call bus-style doors. Those cars were taken out of service during the 2010 and you would usually see them on the Congress-Douglas-O'Hare CTA blue line. Though at this point the Douglas route would become part of the CTA pink line which would be routed into the Loop Elevated tracks.
[VIDEO] I consider myself an AMC customer and enjoy their Stubs premiere membership which one time saved me a lot of money as I built up enough rewards to not pay for tickets or concessions. The only thing I had to pay for after my visit was parking. That cost more than the tickets I think.
Most of the news about what's going on with AMC I get from John Campea and since the start of this pandemic he's been keeping track of AMC's financial health. With the Stubs premiere membership to start with he stated AMC would likely make a profit if that coronavirus hadn't hit. AMC and other theater chains shut down from about March to about August. Like many businesses the film exhibitor industry took a hit because of the lockdowns and changes in consumer behavior.
I don't know how AMC comes out of bankruptcy. Do they recalibrate as most businesses do in this situation? Perhaps they close some locations layoff some people sell some properties. Does another company come in to bail them out or just outright buy them? Will this be the end of the company that was originally founded in Kansas City, Missouri?
[VIDEO] Found this at random this morning, Eleanor from The Simpsons is the crazy cat lady. We see her as a child ready to take on the world to a courtroom where she wants to go on recess to deliver a baby and then we see the start of her becoming crazy cat lady. The comments to this video are very interesting their own analysis of her psychology.
I won't try to analyze because she's a cartoon, but who knows how many people out there have this type of story. You never know where someone is coming from in their lives. Who knows what they've been through in their lives or psychology.
However, this video is hilarious and fitting of The Simpsons. 😛
[VIDEO] This video explores Amtrak's brand identity. I remember the reverse arrow and often tried to recreated it by hand even just drawing lines as opposed to the blocks the logo represents to show my interpretation of Amtrak's logo.
I remember my first trip by train most Amtrak trains were in what they call phase three livery. Seeing that takes me back to the 1980s at least. Of course times change and the Amtrak I rode in the last two decades carries the "travelmark" logo. It's an abstract version of the rails trains are transported.
I really got to do some research on Amtrak uniforms what they had for Amtrak personnel in the 1970s seem very far out. It sees as if they tried to do that reverse arrow on everything including uniforms. Imagine that arrow on your shirt cuff or on the skirts the women wore as part of their uniforms.
I hope you enjoy this presentation by AmtrakGuy365. As you may discover in this video Amtrak and perhaps other businesses continue to move forward and get with the times.
BTW, Amtrak will celebrate 50 years next year. It's unbelievable that it's been that long since the National Passenger Rail Corporation was created to take over passenger rail operations from the railroads. I hope they do what they did after 40 years which is create heritage livery for their locomotives. Perhaps even reactivate those iconic EMD F40PH locomotives. Those are the engines I remember from the 1980s also.
