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Description
"The car shops also turned out passenger cars like this Intercolonial Railroad car No. 1 of the 1870s. The decorating masters, or "trimmers," in the paint shops did superb work detailing both railroad cars and engines with many colors of paints as well as with gold and aluminum bronzing powders simulating gold and silver leaf. After the early 1880s, when many engines now burned the dirtier coal instead of wood, the colors on the exterior of railroad equipment shifted to darker shades, and less ornate and colorful details were used."--Fletcher, David H. "The Portland Company 1846-1982." Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. 39.
About This Item
- Title: Intercolonial Railway Car No.1, Portland Company, ca. 1870
- Creation Date: circa 1870
- Subject Date: circa 1870
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 29/4 -8
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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- Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Railroad cars--American--Maine--Portland--Photographs
- Railroads--Maine--Portland
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