hey! on the back of your reblog about the decline in US transport networks - do you know of any reliable resources on historic US train travel times/routes? i've been trying to learn about a specific journey in the 1920s and i assumed there'd be some handy database to query that academics or railfans would have loaded with old schedules - but i can't find anything useful! long shot, but eternally grateful for any ideas!

1) yr selfie game, always good, has become amazing lately. 2) congratulations on 1000 pages of posts! (i just noticed this while going to message point 1). rgrds, b.

this is trivial in the extreme, but: i just went out for dinner and the cocktail waiter (i know right) looked astonishingly, uncannily, impossibly like you. so it seems you have a transatlantic doppelgänger. in any case, best wishes - B.

don't know if you celebrate at this time of year (christmas, solstice, swamp-hexmas, or otherwise) but this seems like the moment to say: thanx for being great on the internet. best wishes, B.