The engine featured in the last panel is that of the Twentieth Century Limited, a famous train running between New York and Chicago between 1906 and 1962. It gave its name to a Broadway play, Twentieth Century, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, set on board the train, which was made into a movie in 1934 starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard and later adapted into a musical, On the Twentieth Century. This would have been the train Ginger takes to Chicago… that is if she were actually going there. In 1938, the New York Central Railroad commissioned a famous industrial designer to give its streamliners a makeover, giving the the 20th Century Limited an Art Deco look. I’m taking a historical liberty by inserting the 1938 design here in Ginger’s 1935, because it is so iconic to the era.
For the sake of a dramatic panel, I am assuming that the Creepy Guy who has been following Ginger had the misfortune to jump off the Chicago-bound train just as the New York bound train was arriving on a parallel track. Oo… hard cheese, Creepy Guy.
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