A bunch of rusty orange train cars marked HERZOG in big white lettering rolled by this afternoon. My immediate association was Werner Herzog, which was kinda funny. I’m no Werner Herzog expert, far from it. But the little I know of him makes me think it’d be somehow fitting for the director to buy up a bunch of train cars, have his name painted on them, and use them to haul stuff needed for his films-in-progress around the USA.
I’m not sure what said stuff would be. (Bear suits?) Or maybe those were cars full of life-size wax Herzog figures, or a massive shipment of Herzog DVDs. Maybe Herzog has expanded his business interests into rail freight (is “rail frieght” valid terminology? The husband might know, but he doesn’t even read this thing much), because rail frieght is nicely complementary with filmmaking, and he’s always wanted to make that hobo film anyway, and well, because if the Virgin mogul dude can do record stores and airplanes (etc.), why not Werner and trains?
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