Peter Paul Rubens Mars and Rhea Silvia painting

Peter Paul Rubens Mars and Rhea Silvia paintingPeter Paul Rubens Duke of Lerma paintingJohn William Godward Youth and Time paintingLeonardo da Vinci Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani painting
Along the two short walls, floor-to-ceiling shelves housed the train collection, except for whatever models were currently in use.On the two long walls hung fabulous paintings of trains. Here, a locomotive exploded through thick luminous masses of fog, headlamp blazing. There, a train traveled a moonlit prairie. Trains of either walk around it or, by lifting a gate, enter into it and take a tour on an inner racetrack walkway, as though you were a giant vacationing in the land of Lilliput.Fric was in the thick of it.He had distributed armies of toy soldiers across this landscape and had been playing trains and war at the same time. Considering the resources at his have been more fun than it was.every vintage raced through forests, crossed rivers, climbed mountains in rain and sleet and snow and fog and dark of night, clouds billowing from their smokestacks, sparks flying from their wheels.At the center of this great space, on a massive table with many legs, stood a sculptured landscape of green hills, fields, forests, valleys, ravines, rivers, lakes. Seven miniature villages comprised of hundreds of intricately detailed structures were served by country lanes, eighteen bridges, nine tunnels. Convex curves, concave curves, horseshoe curves, straightaways, descending grades, and ascending grades featured more train track than there were coconuts in Tuvalu.This amazing construction measured fifty feet by thirty-two, and you could