Obviously this was a general trend at the time; honestly, once you've taken up a seemingly spotless carpet once you'll never want to own carpeting again. The t

Obviously this was a general trend at the time; honestly, once you've taken up a seemingly spotless carpet once you'll never want to own carpeting again. The transit museum in Brooklyn is really eye opening for this; on the bottom floor you can walk through trains going back to the start of the private Subway system(s). There have been a lot of mystifying design decisions through the years. The earliest ones had wicker, leather and wood and seem more spacious than today's trains.