don’t ever hesitate to plug your jewelry on anything of mine. in fact, last week i had your website(www.pearlprice.com) tattood across my forehead. thank you for sharing. the train picture was beautiful. it’s hard to see such beautiful things pass, but they must i suppose. trains…such an interesting world.

lindsey, thank you for sharing. it touched me. the next time i visit a model station I will remember your father and smile. I can’t wait. I will think of him and I will think of you.

the local news just did a story on all these “conductor” men last night. i got mad/sad b/c the three men who were behind the desk were snide and disrespectful of the story, the play conductors.

love your last sentences. you use the word surreal. the Surrealists loved trains; i do too.

ask you wife if she still has the Beerbohm article, or email and i’ll send it to you, too. One day after re-reading that article I found this captivating photoof the station mentioned in that old article. (i am forever obsessed with the light play in the photograph, how it contrasts with the heavy, dark, earthbound chunk of metal.)

of course that beautiful station has been torn down by now—another inevitable train reference to the passage of time. think House of Seven Gables. here’s another train, Time Transfixed. i’ve seen this one in person and the subject of it still stings my heart. i even have a pair of earrings i designed to remind me of the passage of time. sometimes they tic-toc playfully, other times they are morose reminders. (i swear to you this is not a shameless plug to sell earrings. the earrings are evidence to the fact that i’ve given time/trains much thought.)

so yeah. trains. thanks for sharing, and for sheltering those who love them—no matter what their reasons.

I’m pretty sure he donned neither cap nor overalls, though. Pretty sure.