Monthly Archives: August 2011

Once Upon a Train Track in the West…(cinema)

This is a post about cinema, the wild west, and trains. There are lots of films about the history of the wild west and many of those films include railway trains. Usually, the train is high-jacked or robbed, or chased … Continue reading

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Food Train (Three Courses)

This is a post about food, catering, fine dining, and trains. For those of you old enough to remember, the “British Rail sandwich” was a thing of legend – not good. It wasn’t always like that. This is the dining … Continue reading

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Locomotive (Raymond Loewy)

This is  a post about the American industrial designer, Raymond Loewy. It’s also about locomotives and streamlining, and about book design and art-direction. The pictures in this post are taken from Loewy’s book on locomotive design, published in 1937. Not … Continue reading

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Different Trains (Steve Reich)

This is a post about Steve Reich, trains and the music of slaughter. The post carries on from my recent post about American trains (Sheeler) and about my previous post about music and trains (Pacific 231). We begin with Steve … Continue reading

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