M&W, Morgantown & Wheeling Train with Coal Car, c. 1910s Folk Painting on Linen Carabinieri source: Indigo Arts

source: Indigo Arts

and then a thin strip at the waist holding them together

Just a charming little friend

I love this

I love how each color of paint wore/wears differently

M&W, Morgantown & Wheeling Train with Coal Car, c. 1910s Folk Painting on Linen Carabinieri source: Indigo ArtsI really love this painting, with a wonderful warmth and richness to the palette that makes it feel illuminated by late afternoon light. From what I've been able to dig up, I believe this M&W is for the Morgantown and Wheeling Railway, a historic coal hauling short line railroad in West Virginia which despite its name never reached Wheeling, only operating west from Morgantown to Brave, PA, between 1913 and 1923, and from what I can tell it was