Things tagged “trains”

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My Traveling Companion

Met this little angel on my way back from New Jersey. Would wave at people through the window and say “Hi!” or “I love you!” Conductor went around saying “Thank you. God bless you.” with a big smile as he was scanning tickets. For the next 45-or-so mins, I found myself in some alternate, hopeful…

Sears Homes

Sears, the department store, sold DIY homes via catalog for 32 years between 1908 and 1940 through a program called Sears Modern Homes. They offered 447 different housing styles which you can see here. The designs were not remarkable in any way: Sears themselves admit that they were “not an innova…