Still, developers say they believe that, at a time when energy costs are high and marketers are using environmentally friendly language to sell everything from cars to linens, they can benefit if their building is labeled energy efficient and healthy.
The museum features restored locomotives and railroad cars that you can climb aboard, including a 1937 stainless-steel dining car with white linen, fancy china and a vintage menu offering a "lamb chop, extra thick, 80¢." 4 p.m. 7) SHOP MIDTOWN Midtown, the area bordered roughly by 17th and 29th Streets and H and P Streets, may be Sacramento's hippest district.
And the apparent luxury -- dining car resplendent with white linen and crystal, sleeping car for Ms. Rowling and the entourage from Bloomsbury, her British publisher -- is not quite the magical ride of the novels.
* * * By 1992, when Colley published Britons, much of this achievement either lay in ruins, like the shipyards of the lower Clyde, or had vanished entirely, like car-making and linen-weaving.
Good ones, obviously, in wood-paneled cars, with white linen-covered tables.
Parents all across the nation are packing up their SUV's or other over-sized cars with mini-refrigerators, bed linens and risers, bulletin boards, computers, printers, desk lamps, stationery, cleaning supplies, snacks and general dorm room décor and driving their sons and daughters to the campuses of their choice or at least their second or third choice.
But once there we will be repacking our car with her mini-refrigerator, bed linens and risers, bulletin board, computer, desk lamp, etc. and returning home with her and all her belongings.
We proceeded to the dining car, with its etched glass panels, linen tablecloths and pink carnation on each table, and on to one of the two double-decker dome cars.
It accepts donations of furniture, computer equipment, music equipment, working appliances, dishes, linens and sheets, strollers and car seats for children and sporting goods.
Sometimes the notes buzz, until Mr. Linen warms up like a car engine on a winter morning.
