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Shows: Gaithersburg '08

Here are more photos from the the 31th annual Railroad, Steamship,and Transportation Artifacts Show held in Gaithersburg, Maryland in November of 2008.

Above Left to right. A teapot and hot water pot from the Pere Marquette Railroad's ferry service; a tureen in the "Park Avenue" pattern of the New York Central Railroad; a tureen in the "Keystone" pattern of the Pennsylvania Railroad; two promotional buttons from the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.
Above. An ice cream fork -- often mislabeled as a spork -- marked for the Southern Railway; a clear cast tall globe marked for the Pennsylvania Railroad; a green cast tall globe marked for the Western Maryland Railroad; two green-over-clear short globes.
Above. A bellbottom lantern marked for the Allegheny Railway; a Steam Gauge bellbottom lantern with a clear cast globe marked for the Erie & Wyoming Valley; a brasstop bellbottom lantern with a clear cast globe from the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad; a brasstop bellbottom lantern with a clear cast globe from the Western Maryland Railroad; a Keystone wirebottom lantern with a clear cast globe from the Virginian Railway.
Above. Three views of a Maine Central brasstop bellbottom lantern; a nickel-plated conductor's lantern; a wirebottom lantern marked for the Norfolk & Southern.
Above. An Adams & Westlake wirebottom lantern with a red cast globe marked for the Chicago & Alton; an Adams & Westlake wirebottom lantern with a green cast globe marked for the Cumberland & Pennsylvania; a Keystone wirebottom lantern with a clear cast globe marked for the Long Island; an Adams & Westlake wirebottom lantern with a clear cast globe marked for the New York, Lake Erie & Western; an Adams & Westlake wirebottom lantern with a clear cast globe marked for the Oregon Short Line.

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All photos by Rob Hoffer.