I love the railway bobbin! I think that when railways first appeared (ca 1830), they were an amazing thing; I can see somebody carving this design onto a bobbin in commemoration of the day they saw the train. I once saw an early (as in, 1835 or so) advertising poster for an English railway company. It showed … ta-da! - the train itself, against an unimportant countryside backdrop. You saw open cars, and closed cars, and freight cars and hoppers, and flat cars and all the different ways the train could carry things. 60 years later, train advertising concentrated on all the wonderful scenery you would so comfortably pass through, but not at the beginning.
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