Monthly Archives: February 2016

Portillo in America

Michael Portillo, the former Conservative MP, has re-invented himself as a media personality. He presents a series of “Great Railway Journeys” in half-hour programmes. Last year, he went into Europe, having previously done the whole of Britain; and this year … Continue reading

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American Steam

Here’s a lovely 19C photographic image of a train at speed…I love the water tower and the telegraph posts, and the flags on the cow-catcher at the front of the engine.

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MiuMiu on the Rails…2011

Here are a couple of fashion pictures by Bruce Weber and starring Hailee Steinfeld. It’s interseting that the railroad tracks still has this amazing popular-cultural traction… I think I’ll start making a list of fashion images that have a railway … Continue reading

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