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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
CHARLES W. HOLMES (DATES UNKNOWN) THE BOAT TRAIN / BOSTON AND MAINE. Circa 1932. 44 1/2x29 inches, 113x73 3/4 cm. University Press, Cambridge. Condition B: tears and repaired tears at edges, some into image; small losses at edges; waterstaining in bottom margin and corners; archival tape on verso. Paper. Railway Age Magazine reported in June, 1932, that "'Boat Trains' from interior New England points in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine, operating direct to the gang planks of ocean liners, which will cruise at sea for nearly eight hours, and yet make it possible for passengers to be back at their homes the same day, will be introduced by Boston and Maine Railroad commencing on Sunday, June 26 . . . a sort of summer-time reverse movement of the now famous 'snow train'" (p. 46). The vessel pictured is the Eastern Steamship Lines' Evangeline, which went into service in 1927.
