INVOLUNTARY SEGREGATION. Dynamist discovers the adaptive reuse of Roanoke's Raymond Loewy redesigned passenger train station. Ms. Postrel laments that the O. Winston Link photographs of the concourse area show the "Colored" waiting room signs that the museum has removed. ("Wouldn't want to remind visitors of just how recent--how modern--legally enforced segregation was.") It is likely that the Norfolk and Western Railway removed the signs sometime in the mid-1960s. The last passenger trains on the line terminated effective April 30, 1971.

Unfortunately, a visitor to the Roanoke museum is not able to go downstairs and see one of these babies: