Shows: Gaithersburg '05

Here are more photos of the 27th Annual Railroad, Steamship,and Transportation Artifacts Show held in Gaithersburg, Maryland in November of 2005. This page shows dining car china.

Above left to right. A display of china in the "Centenary" pattern of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; a very rare divided plate with "oval scenes" in the "Centenary" pattern of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; a service plate from the "Sunshine Special" of the Missouri Pacific Railroad; a butter pat from the Intercolonial Railway (Canada).
Above left to right. A "Fred Harvey" vase; cup and saucer demi sets, all different, in the "Mimbreno" pattern of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway; various china pieces, mostly in Amtrak's "National" pattern; a soup bowl and saucer in the "California Poppy" pattern of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.
Above left to right. Various china pieces almost all in patterns of Canadian railroads; a china display in the "Capitol" pattern of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; china in the "Continental" (yellow) and "Bonaventure" patterns of the Canadian National Railroad; china in the "Indian Tree' pattern of the Pullman Company.
Above left to right. China in the "Calumet' pattern of the Pullman Company; a compote in the "Susquehanna" pattern of the Erie Railroad; a compote in the "Lackawanna" pattern of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad; a glass pitcher from the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.
Above left to right. A cup & Saucer set in the "Dubuque" pattern of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad; a two-handled cup in the "Green Mountain" pattern of the Rutland Railroad; a two-handled cup in the "Monogram-Green" pattern of the Washington Terminal Company; a display of silver carafes that were used on dining cars, a compote in the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Purple Laurel" pattern, and other pieces in "Centenary" pattern of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Above left to right. Front and back views of an ice cream dish in the "Portland Rose" pattern of the Union Pacific Railroad; various pieces in the "Mimbreno" pattern of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway; a rare chop plate in the "Mimbreno" pattern of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.

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All photos by Rob Hoffer.