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very early 1830's colorized train print, w carriage cars, SO COOL and early

$ 4688.05

Availability: 67 in stock
  • Condition: as shown in the photos and described below

    Description

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    DESCRIPTION OF ITEM
    THIS ITEM IS--an awesome early Rail Road colorized print, the print size shown is  aprox 13 1/2 x 27 1/2" and the frame is aprox 31 1/2 x 17 1/2", the print has some spotting and the frame shows some damage in the corners mostly and along the edge.  I don't see any info on the print other than it looks like the station might say PIONEER LINE. the print is undated but clearly 1800's. the scene is from the 1830's.  not sure when the print was made in relation to that date. I cant find this same image online, perhaps you know more about it.  I have not removed it from the frame, it is as received from an old collector.  AWESOME. it may be smarter to ship without the glass and frame, it would certainly be cheaper to ship, and more safe.  but I leave that to you. it will be shipped insured.
    Travelling in very early railroad carriages was uncomfortable, impractical, and sometimes dangerous.  The first railroad passenger cars were built by carriage makers, as a result, they looked like coaches mounted on four-wheeled railroad wagons.  Passengers rode both inside the coach and on benches mounted on top of the coach.  Judge J.L. Gillis recalled his first railcar journey from Albany to Schenectady in 1831:
    The trucks were coupled together with chains or chain-links, leaving from two to three feet slack, and when the locomotive started it took up the slack by jerks, with sufficient force to jerk the passengers, who sat on seats across the top of the coaches, out from under their hats, and in stopping they came together with such force as to send them flying from their seats... There being no smoke or spark-catcher to the chimney or smoke-stack, a volume of black smoke, strongly impregnated with sparks, coals, and cinders, came pouring back the whole length of the train. Each of the outside passengers who had an umbrella raised it as a protection against the smoke and fire. They were found to be but a momentary protection... all having their covers burnt off from the frames... [and] the deck-passengers, each whipping his neighbor to put out the fire. [Quoted from:
    The History of the First Locomotives in America from Original Documents and the Testimony of Living Witnesses
    , by William H. Brown, 1871.]
    By 1834, mounted carriages were replaced by rectangular rail cars with simple wooden benches and a center aisle in a style recognizable today.  The first cars were necessarily short to enable them to navigate tight curves.  Later they were mounted on four-wheeled swiveling trucks, allowing the longer cars to more easily navigate the tight curves.
    Early cars were called day coaches, since most trips were short and during the day.  A short journey was good because travel was extremely uncomfortable.    Originally cars were one class, with people from all walks of life riding together.  By the 1840s, passage was sold on second class cars and, in some cases, third class or "emigrant" cars that carried settlers further west.  Passengers on the emigrant cars endured miserable conditions, often having been furnished with only a wooden bench along the wall.  Some emigrant cars were freight cars fitted temporarily with wooden seats or benches for the trip to the Midwest then filled with grain for the trip back east.
    LOCATION-- box ( Hayes - Rack O left side)