Re: (erielack) Phoebe fore-runner???

[William Shultz <wshultz1_@_twcny.rr.com>]

Gary,

Both of those cards were produced from the special advertising photo 
train in October of 1905 I believe. The photographs were in New Jersey 
along the Boonton Line from what I have read. I'm not certain where the 
top location is, I heard varying accounts. The bottom one however is 
somewhere between Athenia and Patterson. It is Mrs. Marion Murray, the 
original model, in the upper card. Obviously the wind wasn't cooperating 
unless of course they were running backwards.

Neither predate the advertising campaign. That was begun in early 1903. 
Tabor includes a New York Tribune ad from November 1903 featuring Phoebe 
Snow.

Regards,

Will Shultz

Gary R. Kazin wrote:
> 
> While we're discussing Ms Snow, here are two postcards from my collection.
> 
> The first obviously shows Phoebe on the observation platform of the
> Lackawanna Limited, though she is not named.  It was addressed to Medina,
> NY, but not mailed, unfortunately.  Note the US flags pointing forward on
> both sides of the roof!
> 
> The second appears to show the other end of the train during the same
> posed set-up.  It was mailed from Buffalo to Rochester on September 23,
> 1906.  They caught the semaphore signal too, but the engine's safety valve
> is releasing excess steam.
> 

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