A railroad wanted one perfect photo of its new train, so a Chicago photographer built the world’s largest camera, weighing 1,400 pounds, and to dust its glass plate someone had to walk inside it
Workers at the Pullman plant in Illinois built two six-car trains in 1899 for daytime runs to Saint Louis. According to the brochure, every car had windows of the same size and shape. All of them matched in length and height, too. Even the locomotive’s tender rose to the exact…