[Ned laughs; that poor, poor Mr. Green. He doesn't really listen to him, either, but it's not like Henry Green has much to say to him on an ordinary day. So that works out just fine.

He looks over his shoulder at the model train with a little hum.] That old thing? That would be a to-scale model of the Best Friend of Charleston, the very first locomotive built entirely in the United States. In New York, in fact, though she was assembled a decade before my time.

[A beat.] And her boiler exploded before my time, too. Wish I could've seen it.

[The train? The explosion? Both??]