Monthly Archives: March 2014

Here’s a terrific advertising image from the early 1960s for the “hi-dome” observation car on the Santa Fe railway. This isn’t just a great advertising image though…it’s an image about a new kind of seeing! Of course, seeing and cognition … Continue reading →

We continue with our American theme…this is a terrific and dramatic photograph of a streamlined class 3460, 4-6-4 Hudson, by Henry Dreyfuss and Baldwin Loco, for the Santa Fe Railroad (1937). This was The Blue Goose. By virtue of size … Continue reading →

I have a great weakness for colour and scale; it’s what first drew me to posters and graphic design. Similarly with railway trains; I’m less interested in the machinery and most interested in the movement, scale, colour, and typography, of … Continue reading →

I just found this book from 1944. It’s a story about railways illustrated with colour photographs of model layouts. The photos are by Paul Henning, who must have been a contemporary of John Hinde. The book was designed by George … Continue reading →

There was a terrific documentary yesterday, broadcast as part of BBC4TVs Storyville strand,  called Brakeless: Why Trains Crash… You can watch it on BBCiplayer, or Box of Broadcasts The film is described, thus A documentary film exploring one of Japan’s … Continue reading →

Here is a picture from yesterday’s Guardian. If you think taking the train in Europe is bad…try commuting elsewhere!

Here are some terrific O gauge model engines…

The new edition of the European Train Timetable has just been published. That’s good news. The timetable used to be published by Thomas Cook; but they gave up on it a few years ago when it seemed that all this … Continue reading →