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Reacher lives in a world made for people fifteen inches shorter than him. But he's used to it and makes do. And yes, he's sleeping in his clothes. He might have to leap to his feet in response to a call to action. No time to go looking for his boots.
Posting a day "early" because Saturday will be busy. As most of my Saturdays have been, ever since I got old enough to work. But that's life in the volatile area between the poor and the lower middle class.
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Posting a day "early" because Saturday will be busy. As most of my Saturdays have been, ever since I got old enough to work. But that's life in the volatile area between the poor and the lower middle class.
As always: https://www.Patreon.com/Karno/overview
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A few comments about the depictions here, with the important caveat that this is your damn world, and you can draw it as you see fit:
(1) Sleeping car rooms (introduced in this country more or less ca. 1937) didn't have doors that worked like that. They were, invariably, sliding doors, which took up less space and were, frankly, quite a bit safer for railroad personnel and passengers.
(2) Prior to 1937 or so, most sleeping car accommodations were the kind of tiered-bunk-with-curtains arrangement that you can see, for example, in the "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" segment of 1933's "42nd Street." (The term for this is "open section.") After 1937, and continuing through to the present day, the design for a "roomette" would have seats in the room, which folded down to form the bottom bed, with a top bed folding down from roughly the area of the ceiling -- not really the prison-room type arrangement you show here.
(3) Roomettes tend to be quite cramped, with very little floor space. Even a normal sized fur, let alone Reacher, would not be able to put down a mattress parallel to a bed. One reason roomettes tended to be a bit cramped was that many had small sinks, for example. Sleeping cars did have 1 or 2 bigger rooms, which then as now were often sold out quickly, but even there (I speak from personal experience) there's little floor space, especially when the beds are unfolded.
(4) I did look up that average "consist" for the 20th Century Limited (the Central's crack train), and in 1938, it ran 17 cars -- slightly larger than what you show here. Of course, the Century ran on the "Water Level Route," and thus required only one (very powerful) locomotive. The Broadway Limited (the Pennsylvania Railroad's premier Chicago-New York train) often ran smaller consists (slightly smaller than what you show here) because it had to go over the mountains (think the famous Horseshoe Curve at Altoona). The consist you show here (contrary to my statement above), *might* work, but you'd still have to consider the exact route you're using to go east (i.e., mountains) to determine how large a consist you could use, and how much motive power you needed.
(5) "Bellhop" is not the correct term; the correct term would be "porter," both historically and even today. Porters would be able to get coffee or water in the middle of the night (I own some Pullman insulated pitchers that were intended for precisely that).
(1) Sleeping car rooms (introduced in this country more or less ca. 1937) didn't have doors that worked like that. They were, invariably, sliding doors, which took up less space and were, frankly, quite a bit safer for railroad personnel and passengers.
(2) Prior to 1937 or so, most sleeping car accommodations were the kind of tiered-bunk-with-curtains arrangement that you can see, for example, in the "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" segment of 1933's "42nd Street." (The term for this is "open section.") After 1937, and continuing through to the present day, the design for a "roomette" would have seats in the room, which folded down to form the bottom bed, with a top bed folding down from roughly the area of the ceiling -- not really the prison-room type arrangement you show here.
(3) Roomettes tend to be quite cramped, with very little floor space. Even a normal sized fur, let alone Reacher, would not be able to put down a mattress parallel to a bed. One reason roomettes tended to be a bit cramped was that many had small sinks, for example. Sleeping cars did have 1 or 2 bigger rooms, which then as now were often sold out quickly, but even there (I speak from personal experience) there's little floor space, especially when the beds are unfolded.
(4) I did look up that average "consist" for the 20th Century Limited (the Central's crack train), and in 1938, it ran 17 cars -- slightly larger than what you show here. Of course, the Century ran on the "Water Level Route," and thus required only one (very powerful) locomotive. The Broadway Limited (the Pennsylvania Railroad's premier Chicago-New York train) often ran smaller consists (slightly smaller than what you show here) because it had to go over the mountains (think the famous Horseshoe Curve at Altoona). The consist you show here (contrary to my statement above), *might* work, but you'd still have to consider the exact route you're using to go east (i.e., mountains) to determine how large a consist you could use, and how much motive power you needed.
(5) "Bellhop" is not the correct term; the correct term would be "porter," both historically and even today. Porters would be able to get coffee or water in the middle of the night (I own some Pullman insulated pitchers that were intended for precisely that).
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