A minor correction. There’s no middle “e” in “Wedgwood.” My wife collects it, so I always notice this very common mistake.
Ben Sisson:
November 1st, 2015 at 1:08 pm
My mother in her late 80’s informed me that when she was a young girl her father, would travel from New York to east coast destinations by train, and would have a dinner on the train which was served on a blue plate commemorating the railroad fleet trains, I have attached a picture of one of these plates my mother has had since childhood , although I am not sure it has actually attend to this reply form.
The plate is a blue print with eight of the fleet engines named and pictured in the circumferential border of the plate, the a picturesque train on a bridge crossing scene in the center.
The customers were invited to keep these plates as a gift from to railroad which must have been in the early 1930’s.
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Anonymous:
November 19th, 2020 at 6:27 pm
The weatherman this evening said Saturday will be a blue plate special. The weather will be warm with clear skies.
It just doesn’t make any sense. This is Tennessee though.
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David Fickett-Wilbar:
January 2nd, 2012 at 12:35 am
A minor correction. There’s no middle “e” in “Wedgwood.” My wife collects it, so I always notice this very common mistake.
Ben Sisson:
November 1st, 2015 at 1:08 pm
My mother in her late 80’s informed me that when she was a young girl her father, would travel from New York to east coast destinations by train, and would have a dinner on the train which was served on a blue plate commemorating the railroad fleet trains, I have attached a picture of one of these plates my mother has had since childhood , although I am not sure it has actually attend to this reply form.
The plate is a blue print with eight of the fleet engines named and pictured in the circumferential border of the plate, the a picturesque train on a bridge crossing scene in the center.
The customers were invited to keep these plates as a gift from to railroad which must have been in the early 1930’s.
IMG_0341.JPG
Anonymous:
November 19th, 2020 at 6:27 pm
The weatherman this evening said Saturday will be a blue plate special. The weather will be warm with clear skies.
It just doesn’t make any sense. This is Tennessee though.