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Harold Francis Bergan

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Harold Francis Bergan
Carriages being transported by railroad
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Look closely - those are carriages being transported by flatcar with little Harold Bergan riding on top. I don't know about you, but in the back of my head I always thought of carriages as being handcrafted - one of a kind or locally made. Here's a train full!
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07/02/2014
Great photograph, from the past.Love it, alot.ty
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07/02/2014
Thought so myself...
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07/02/2014
Awesome piece of history! !
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07/02/2014
Powerful...picture
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07/02/2014
Love that pic. How exciting to be riding on top.
We are all wusses these days. Won't even drink out of a garden hose.
So brave they were.
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07/02/2014
i'm a wuss, & I drink from garden hoses. btw, have u ever ridden a buggy or farm truck as they were called? knocks the silly putty outta ur back & kidneys. try it. u won't like it.
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07/03/2014
I've drank from a horse trough before, swam in stock tanks too..
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07/03/2014
not sure he's brave but I think it could possibly been dangerous. just saying. Lol.
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07/02/2014
Didn't Wards or Sears sell them at one time?
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07/02/2014
They did. I have one of those replica catalogues and you could order buckboards, doctors coaches, wagons, etc.. Cool stuff!
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07/02/2014
Just like train loads of cars tiday!
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07/02/2014
I love these kind of history photos
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07/02/2014
Where were these carriage made? Where was this pic taken? I live in Amesbury MA and in the day, we were the Detroit of carriage making. Our carriages were sent all over the country.
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07/02/2014
from Haverhill. usta attend church in Merrimac & Amesbury.
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07/02/2014
Love it...
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07/02/2014
Jordi Pallares
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07/02/2014
Gracias Angelica Monnerat por pensar en mi...los trenes son una pasión vital!. Un beijo
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07/02/2014
They were basically in crafted. the assembly line didn't come into existence until Henry Ford
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07/02/2014
Hand crafted
Photo of Kerry Pinte Kerry Pinte
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07/02/2014
I remember as a kid My grandfather had a RR lantern just like that hanging in his house. I imagine a lot of them simply disappeared back in the day. LOL!
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07/02/2014
Those are buckboards, for use in deliveries or by farmers. It's like the ancestor of the pickup truck.
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07/02/2014
That's how Studebaker got started in business!
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07/02/2014
Great picture
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07/02/2014
Nice looks like there is more than one type of carriage on the flat cars.
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07/02/2014
Question: six wheel wagons! Were they used in mills or mines for heavy loads?
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07/02/2014
Many of the early car companies were first makers of carriages. For example Studebaker of South Bend.
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07/02/2014
They were probably made in factories.
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07/02/2014
Great pic!
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07/02/2014
Guess they had a factory somewhere!
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07/02/2014
Beautiful! I lived next to train tracks for years and saw a lot of exciting things being transported by rail
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07/02/2014
Yes, me 2! The circus, cattle, derailment, cars/ trucks...,as well as the usual things....
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07/02/2014
This is when we made vehicles right the first time!
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07/02/2014
Delightful photo!
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07/02/2014
Great photo, where were the carriages made?
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07/02/2014
Give me one..I need it for my wedding next year...ty haha
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07/02/2014
WOW
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07/02/2014
Military wagons and gun carriages post 1915
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07/02/2014
Assembly lines were invented in the Springfield Armoury during the US Civil War. Ford merely adapted the concept for car production.
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07/02/2014
A major carriage and wagon company stood at the end of my street in Marshallville, Ohio. They later built commercial vehicles such as the hearse and the Weiner mobile. Their name was Gerstenslager. They are still in business in Wooster, Ohio.
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07/02/2014
Grayson Warbritton
Yes, I thot of carriages in the same way!
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07/02/2014
Amazing
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07/02/2014
cool
Wealthier people probably would order carriages and have them delivered
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07/02/2014
Not carriages; these are Buckboard Wagons.
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07/02/2014
And yet another photo to print and hang on the wall.
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07/02/2014
Love it♡♥
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07/03/2014
out west they called them "buck boards" don't exactly know why but as a kid in old tuscon rode in one of them and have rode in a stagecoach as well as a regular carriage.....the fancier the ride the nicer the springs and suspension was......lol
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07/03/2014
I always thought the same thing. But back in the 70's I saw an old sears catalogue and you could actually purchase them and have them shipped by train anywhere in the states. I am sure there were other companies all around the world that did the same. Before learning you can order and buy anything you dream of even automobiles from a book I also thought they were made by local craftsmen.
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07/03/2014
Great photo.
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07/03/2014
CARRIAGE MAKING was a craft that sort of 'morphed' into car body manufacture. Actually, Henry Ford's first cars had wooden floor boards and he also had the crates they were shipped in,the cars, used to replace them, a true 'recycler' before it became popular. Making a spoked wheel is an art and the original Model T's had spoked wheels.
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07/03/2014
neat!
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07/03/2014
There were the necessary evils of the day ...then and now.
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07/03/2014
Yeah....you're right though. Not without its risks of the era.
They may have been for the Military ?
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07/06/2014
oh my .................pure joy
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07/11/2014
So much information I didn't know. Thanks for sharing I just found this site and I love it...
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07/12/2014
those aren't carriages. They are heavy delivery wagons.
Thought so as well. As I think though a bunch of early car makers originally built carriages.
Could have been manufactered at large quantities at that time... perhaps for the army...
The ones on the right side of the photo appear to be two-wheeled vehicles - limbers or caissons. This is undoubtedly a military train of some kind.
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11/19/2015
Carriage manufacturing was fully industrialized by 1850. In 1876 Studebaker Bros claimed they could make a wagon every seven minutes. Their plant in South Bend covered 96 acres and they shipped by rail carriages to respositories all over the US.
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