So a blog I visit that has a "Friday Ephemera" thread of silly links included the following:
I have laid 40ft of train track between sofa and kitchen. A good service is now operating: this train carrying two gin & tonics has just arrived. pic.twitter.com/VZJGKvifiV
— Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) December 17, 2017
One of the responses pointed out that delivering food by model train had already been done almost a century ago by Buster Keaton in the movie The Electric House. This is another of those two-reelers that I have to admit I hadn't heard of before. God knows there were a lot of comedy two-reelers produced back in those days. Anyhow, since it's from 1922, it should be in the public domain, and sure enough, it's made its way to Youtube:
And then there's the whole push-button house storyline of Ma and Pa Kettle.
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