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Arthur Griffin B&H 1940 excursion photos

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Bill Reidy:
I just ran across two links on Digital Commonwealth to photos taken by Arthur Griffin during a B&H excursion in 1940:

https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search?f%5Bcollection_name_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Arthur+Griffin+Photographs&f%5Binstitution_name_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Griffin+Museum+of+Photography&f%5Brelated_item_series_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Narrow+gauge+2

https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search?f%5Bcollection_name_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Arthur+Griffin+Photographs&f%5Binstitution_name_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Griffin+Museum+of+Photography&f%5Brelated_item_series_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Narrow+gauge+1&only_path=true

Tom Casper:
He spent to much film on folks.  Need more equipment!

Tom C.

Ed Lecuyer:
Interior shot of WW&F Coach 3?
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:k930dx82n

Harold Downey:
Yes, that is definitely coach 3.  All the details are correct.  Still has hat racks and shades; the ceiling has been painted white, the center lighting is gone.

Here is an exterior shot that sure looks like #3 as well - nice that it shows the original steps/platform.  https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/k930dz168

Great quality photographs, with high resolution scans.

Allan Fisher:
As the curator of a very large railroad archive, I can tell you that these photos are a gold mine for an archives and for future researchers.
Many railfans don't seem to understand that 3/4 and side shots of railroad equipment might be wonderful for railroad modelers and for those junkies that want to have a picture of every piece of a railroad's equipment, but for historical purposes, shots like these with many passengers and early railfans all over different parts of the equipment are what will be important one hundred years from now.

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