A witty spread shows the car traveling to the right of the page, then back to the left, its momentum causing the wide-eyed, elaborately dressed passengers to sway.
“Beach’s train was a sensation,” writes Corey ( Here Come the Girl Scouts!). He oversaw the building of a short tunnel, a single car, the machinery to make it move, and a luxurious underground waiting room, complete with a fountain. In the 1860s, Alfred Ely Beach conceived of an underground train that could be propelled pneumatically. Sickels ( The Beginner’s Guide to Running Away from Home) crafts stylized clay figures and furnishings with infinite care, then photographs them under dramatic lighting-they could be stills from a movie.
Corey’s absorbing story of New York City’s ill-fated first subway provides an ideal venue for the sculptural artistry of Chris Sickels, aka Red Nose Studio.
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