A-Z ARCHIVE: T

TRAINS

Tuesdays weekly A-Z ARCHIVE Challenge is the letter “T”.  This challenge is always sponsored by fellow blogger FRIZZTEXT, a great photographer and musician.  Visit his site for more entries on above link.

Last year I took one of my day trips to Dover, Ohio.  One of the sights I visited was the Warther Museum. The home of Ernest (Mooney) Warther’s carvings of perfect scale replicas of massive locomotive steam engines. There’s the Lincoln Funeral Train, carved in 1965, with tiny Lincoln in his tiny casket inside. The Great Northern, carved in 1933, which was Mooney’s favorite. He worked almost exclusively in walnut, ebony and ivory, and since he love elephants he only used antique tusks or ivory from old billiard balls.

The Smithsonian has called his wood carvings :priceless works of art.” The perfection and mechanizing of his steam locomotives earned him the title of World’s Master Carver, in the 1920’s.

 

 

BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!