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The Dude Train, Woods Hole, Mass.

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Geographic / Mass. / Falmouth / Woods Hole / Baldwin Coolidge Photos / Large.

GUSN

GUSN-196521

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Description

The Dude Train traveled from Boston to Woods Hole, Massachusetts from June 1st to October 1st for the convenience of summer residents starting in 1884. The train made its last run at the end of the 1916 season. Photograph by Baldwin Coolidge.

Details

Descriptive Terms

railroads
locomotives
summer (season)
passenger cars (railroad cars)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 001490
AccessID 2320
Other identifier HNEDID-001490

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.0980.0080.004

Date Notes

1895

Places

Woods Hole (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (photographer)

Material Type

photographs

Other Organizations

New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company

Subjects

Aquinnah Cliffs (Nantucket, Mass.)
Flying Dude (train)
Gay Head Light (Mass.)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Geographic / Mass. / Falmouth / Woods Hole / Baldwin Coolidge Photos / Large.

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