A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Saturday Film Club: New York Central's Mercury: An Art Deco Masterpiece
A quick look at some stunning American locomotives. I could get into collecting models of these - they are beautiful!
Beautiful, but as social history also interesting: looks like the only black people to travel on it were the bar stewards and waiters.
ReplyDeleteGood point. It's difficult to imagine just how segregated the USA was, until relatively recenlty.
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