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Bergen tunnel (Colorized)

1900 New Jersey. View full size.

1900 New Jersey. View full size.

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Special Train Car

These colorized photos are simply amazing. If I can read the sign on this railroad car correctly, it says Detroit Photographic Company, the company which produced so many of these high-quality photos in black-and-white.

So, it appears to me this might be the railroad car the DPC used to hold cameras and developing equipments, and probably a darkroom or two to develop film and make prints.

Can you imagine moving that railroad car from town to town, taking these pictures? Maybe half of the car was a sleeper section, so the two or three people had a place to sleep while they worked?

Any ideas? (Boy, I'd love that job today...)

[It is the Detroit Photographic Special. See here and here. - tterrace]

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