I knew I’d seen it somewhere in a movie. Here’s a train with a writing desk for passenger use. The desk accessory and the drawer below no doubt hold stationery.
[From The Narrow Margin (dir. Richard Fleischer, 1952). Click for a larger desk.]
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Writing on a train
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this one has a box for outgoing mail, too ---
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Beautiful! Thanks!
There were some standing desk type tables in the club car of VIA Rail's Ocean train to Halifax, but certainly no stationery was to be seen. Here's a photo:
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Wow! My brother Brian mentioned reading somewhere that trains at least sometimes had embossed stationery and envelopes so that people could send novelty letters while traveling.
Something I saw in passing: a minute in an episode of My Three Sons about stationery being available on planes.
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