Toy train with five cars: steam engine with tender, an open freight car, a livestock car and a passenger car; each wooden car is of a simplified form; the engine with tender is painted medium green with red and black detailing and red wheels; the engine is embossed in gilt with "N.Y.C.R.R" and a partial black paper label which reads "A [illegible] Berlin" (also in gilt). The open freight car is painted a sage green with black details, has sage green wheels and a black printed label which reads: "Weight 5 tons" and holds three burlap bags; the poultry car is of a natural wood with black detailing, a blue top and bears several labels: 1- Weight 5 tons 2- "3870" 3- "Lond. 5th Western R" The passenger car with two cabins is painted a burnt orange with black pinstriping; its interior is fitted with benchseats which bears a label which reads "Principbook Nr 1480".
miniatures (toys)
models (representations)
trains (vehicle groupings)
pine (wood)
burlap
painting (coating)
Set, Play
Set, Train
Set, Train
See description.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
20 x 92 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1064
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