A thoughtful U.S. essay about “Finding and Losing Train Culture”, something that Lovecraft was often immersed in. First as a railroad enthusiast, then an eager train traveller of various types. And finally as someone who somewhat lost that train culture, as poverty forced him onto cheaper buses and long-distance coaches. Which were made more enticing from spring 1932, since the coach and bus lines slashed prices as the Great Depression deepened.

From the thoughtful article…

The nice thing about trains is that they bring people and things to your community and take them from your community to the wider world without erasing your actual community. Trains come in at one or two points, and leave by those same points, on a more or less regular, but distinctly limited schedule.

I’m not sure if there are any bus or train tickets in the new Arkham Investigator’s Wallet Prop Set from the HPLHS. But if not you can pick up a few on eBay easily enough. Even a corpse needed a train ticket, it seems.