Whipped Cream Difficulties

For all the issues I have with Gregg Easterbrook, I do think this is a pretty swell meditation on model trains and Christmas.

Adults who today are deep into model railroading – usually retired men from industrial careers, though including Rod Stewart and Michael Jordan – construct elaborate sets representing real locations in railroading. Jordan favors the tiny N gauge. Stewart likes HO. His diorama, which he says took 25 years to complete – I believe him! – suggests Pittsburgh in the 1940s.

While this is on the “All Predictions Wrong” substack, it is a re-run, so Easterbrook doesn’t have it paywalled.