Good Morning, Whitewater
On this day in 1959, according to Wisconsin Historical Society, the Railroad Historical Society of Milwaukee was incorporated. The automobile had by that time relegated trains to commemoration through a historical society. Nothing has really supplanted the automobile in the decades since — airlines haven’t taken that path at the expense of automobiles.
Even now, though, in Whitewater and elsewhere, we still look fondly on this history of railroads and trains, in a way we do not, for example, about carriages, wagons, and barges.
There are no public meetings scheduled in Whitewater today.
The National Weather Service predicts it will be 50 degrees and mostly sunny. The Farmers’ Almanac assures “clearing skies and pleasant temperatures.” Close enough. Today will have about 14 hours of sunlight, and about 15 hours of daylight (the extra hour being from the half hour of indirect civil twilight in morning and evening.)