Nothing orange can stay
New York City subway cars will be losing their orange and yellow seats in 2025 . Replacing them: blue and yellow seats.
“Give me the peaceful train”
Dialogue from The Palm Beach Story (1942), written and directed by Preston Sturges.
Writing on a train
From The Narrow Margin: a train with a writing desk for passenger use.
On the conjunction train
From YouTube user blakrootz: “‘Conjunction Junction’ Model Train.”
The Vignelli map
From the New York Transit Museum: Towards a Better Way: The “Vignelli” Map at 50.
“I Like my Sleep!”
Al Smith for Pullman.
“Ten hours to Chicago”
From Nella Larsen’s Quicksand.
Subway map debate
From Gothamist: “The Secret History Of The Great Subway Map Debate Of 1978 Revealed.” The debate is the subject of a new book, The New York Subway Map Debate, edited by Gary Hustwit
Rails to Sales
A poster promoting subway advertising posters, by Otis Shepard and Dorothy Van Gorder.
Subway ways
From Gothamist : “A Brief History Of NYC Subway Vending Machines.” And from The New York Times : “The New York City Subway Map as You’ve Never Seen It Before.”
The end of the dining car
I remember sitting in a dining car just once — white tablecloth, eggs.
C. & E.I. pencil
A pencil from the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad.
Railroad emblems
From Life magazine, 1944.
Robert Walser: the railway (2)
To be honest, I don’t travel much, and this is why the thought of travel fills me with such longing.
Robert Walser: the railway (1)
“What a flying, rattling, rustling.”
Jack Teagarden, model-train enthusiast
Here is how Barney Bigard told it.
The New York Times Subway Issue
NYC subways in photographs, 1917-2010
Manhattan expanding
Changes in the subway map
Solari e Tufte
Edward Tufte plans to repurpose Solari board as art
Solari board
Train station technology, click click click
Illinois Central Railroad Pencil
A railroad pencil, and the role of the Illinois Central in blues
Paleo-Future
From a site dedicated to “the future that never was”
El cardplayers
Still from 3rd Ave. El, a 1954 film by Carson Davidson