The Boston & Maine wasn’t famous for its Budd domes.
Yet, it was sure cool to see this classic car on the Pan Am Office Car train passing the west end of East Deerfield Yard.
Exposed in May 2017 with a FujiFilm XT1.
Soft afternoon light accentuated the lines of this stainless steel car.
Tracking the Light Posts Daily!
Yes, that’s what this is all about.
Should I translate?
Ok: Pan Am Railways (which takes its name from the old Pan Am Airways, the name that the railway’s parent organization acquired some years back) bought an old Wabash Railroad stainless steel dome.
Wabash was neither acronym nor a monicker.
Back in the day (before 1964 when the company was melded into the Norfolk & Western), the Wabash Railroad Company operated a Midwestern North American network that connected Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha and Kansas City gateways.
The Connecticut is the north-south river that bisects New England, and which forms the boundary between New Hamshire and Vermont while crossing the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut. (Sorry, I don’t know if the state was named for the river or vice versa).
I made this photograph from the west bank of the river at East Deerfield, Massachusetts last August (2016.)
Hopefully that clarifies any confusion!
