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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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