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Ted Miles

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Re: Box Car 67 - Official Work Thread
« Reply #330 on: December 06, 2024, 02:46:42 PM »
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         Since the museum is now a museum of the Maine Two-Footers not just the WW&F; I wish the cars would get some letttering, so our visitors can tell which railroad they came from.

On the Colorado Railroad Museum they lettter the cars for any Colorado railroad, so one can tell where they came from.

Of course the #67 should say B&SR.

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Re: Box Car 67 - Official Work Thread
« Reply #331 on: December 06, 2024, 03:36:07 PM »
I would agree with Ted with one caveat.  Equipment from outside of the WW&F and restored should be lettered for their originating RR.  BUT, equipment that is replicated, even if the original was non-WW&F, should be lettered for the WW&F because we built it.
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Re: Box Car 67 - Official Work Thread
« Reply #332 on: December 06, 2024, 05:46:17 PM »
Lettering of the Bridgton boxcar 67 could be accurate in any of three versions:

Version 1. No lettering ( see illustration on page 70 of Robert McDonald's "In Quest of Maine Narrow Gauge 1948 - 1950

Version 2. B & SR RR lettering as shown on page 230 (bottom) of Robert C. Jones' "Two Feet to the Lakes". This photo likely taken in the late 1930's or early 1940's and with lettering having been applied by the "Save the Bridgton" railfan effort to keep the railroad operating.

Version 3. B & H Ry. lettering.

Note: while at Edaville, this car was among those painted with the Ocean Spray lettering.
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Re: Box Car 67 - Official Work Thread
« Reply #333 on: December 06, 2024, 06:16:11 PM »
Lettering of the Bridgton boxcar 67 could be accurate in any of three versions:

Version 1. No lettering ( see illustration on page 70 of Robert McDonald's "In Quest of Maine Narrow Gauge 1948 - 1950

Version 2. B & SR RR lettering as shown on page 230 (bottom) of Robert C. Jones' "Two Feet to the Lakes". This photo likely taken in the late 1930's or early 1940's and with lettering having been applied by the "Save the Bridgton" railfan effort to keep the railroad operating.

Version 3. B & H Ry.

Note: while at Edaville, this car was among those painted with the Ocean Spray lettering.

Just after posting, I noticed a photo of boxcar 67 (taken in 1933) with B & SR RR lettering, so my assumption of railfans painting and lettering this car may not be correct. This car may not have had B & H Ry. lettering and I will go through my photo collection to see if I have any showing this lettering.
Wanted: Copies of correspondence and photographs from "first generation narrow gage railfans" such as Linwood Moody, Dick Andrews, Lawrence Brown, Ellis Atwood, H.T. Crittenden and others. Interested in all two foot (U.S.) rail operations, common carrier, industrial/mill and park/museum.