Mar 16, 2017 - Sale 2439

Sale 2439 - Lot 78

Unsold
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DESIGNER UNKNOWN SNOW TRAINS / BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD. Circa 1940s.
30x22 inches, 76 1/4x55 3/4 cm. E.B. Thomas, Cambridge.
Condition A-: minor creases and folds at edges. Paper.
"A late 1940s B&M snow train poster advertises Sunday and weekend service from North Station . . . Much preparation went into the snow train operation. It left North Station in Boston on Friday for North Conway (Mount Cranmore)and returned to Boston on Sunday, allowing for a two-day skiing retreat" (Boston and Maine, p. 34).