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Loading ...“A Romance Of The Rails” preceded Edison’s break through full length motion picture “The Great Train Robbery.” The romantic travelogue is considered one of the first to blatantly use product placement within the story line. However Edison was not new to this form of enrichment from his flicks having placed brand name cigarettes in his [...]
(5 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...America’s Great Railroad Stations are slowly disappearing, one at a time, some from reduced use others from urban expansion. Dispite the best efforts of numerous government agencies, local citizens and Railroadiana preservationists many of these wonderful structures, designed by famous architects such as Daniel Burnham, Frank Loyd Wright and Louis Sullivan, have fallen to the wrecking ball. Many of these terminals were [...]
(4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ...Approximately 600 pieces of fine china created for use in dinning cars during the golden age of railroading, from the late 19th century through the middle of the 20th century can be found in the Jay Christopher collection. It is one of the world’s most extensive collections of dining car china Railroadiana in the United [...]
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...The first half of the 20th century is generally regarded as the Golden Age of railroading with the advent of famous passenger trains such as the New York Central’s Twentieth Century Limited and the Burlington Zephyr, stately railroad terminals in St Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, and San Francisco and other landmark locomotive feats occurring within the [...]
(Not yet rated, click on star to rate.) Loading ...CBS News Sunday Morning | January 23, 2011 – After 50 years of collecting toy trains and their stations Jerry Green has amassed a collection of over 40,000 pieces, worth tens of millions of dollars. CBS News Martha Teichner finds out how he did it and what happens to a collector when they have nothing left [...]
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