AHM Clerestory Pullman Wooden Combine Coach ~ KANSAS St. LOUIS & CHICAGO

Description: We try to be Friendly to our international customers especially with our: UPS Standard to Canada,The Kansas St. Louis & Chicago began as the Alton & Sangamon Railroad chartered on February 27, 1847. It was envisioned to link Alton (located just north of St. Louis) with the Illinois state capital of Springfield. By 1852 the line was ready for service. A series of events transpired after 1855, which completed its link to the Windy City; first Joliet was reached that year. To access Chicago, trackage rights were granted over the Rock Island for about a year until the Joliet & Chicago (chartered in 1855) opened in 1856. In 1857 the entire operation was renamed as the St. Louis, Alton & Chicago. Just prior to the Civil War the Chicago & Alton Railroad was formed on February 18, 1861 and acquired the St.L A&C's assets. To the south, direct entry into St. Louis came via the Alton & St. Louis; chartered on February 4, 1859 it was completed between East St. Louis and Alton by 1865. The St. Louis - Chicago route constituted C&A's eastern segment; its western route came through lease during the 1870's; in 1870 it leased the Louisiana & Missouri River and did the same with the Kansas City, St. Louis & Chicago in 1878. Together, these railroads established service from Kansas City to St. Louis via Louisiana and Mexico, Missouri. Despite access to three of the Midwest's biggest cities the C&A struggled as the years passed. That same year, on June 15th, it was renamed as the Chicago & Mississippi with much loftier goals of establishing service between its namesake locations. **American Rails Historically, clerestory denoted an upper level of a Roman basilica or of the nave of a Romanesque or Gothic church, the walls of which rise above the rooflines of the lower aisles and are pierced with windows. Similar structures have been used in transportation vehicles to provide additional lighting, ventilation, or headroom. Clerestory roofs were used on railway carriages (known as "clerestory carriages") from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s.The first Pullman coaches in England had clerestory roofs, and were imported and assembled at Derby, where Pullman set up an assembly plant in conjunction with the Midway Railway, a predecessor of the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). The first coach, a sleeping car named "Midland", was assembled and ready for trial-running in January 1874. To see all of our eBay listings, visit: Ika's Train Store Note #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation, I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment. Note #2: I want you to be happy with your purchase and would appreciate you leaving positive feedback. In the event you are not, please contact me immediately before leaving feedback so we may resolve it. Thank you. Note #3: If not previously stated item(s) come from a smoke-free environment with cats. Note #4: This is a Grandma & Grandpa shop. We have a 4-business day shipping window (this means that if you pay for your order on a Friday, it may not get shipping until the following Thursday). We do combine shipping especially when we are asked about it.If you want combined shipping, please purchase all your items in one order. If you purchase items in more than one order, send us a message so that we know about the additional items and box the orders together. (When items are bought in multiple orders, we do not always notice they were bought by the same person unless we are notified by the buyer.) We refund extra shipping charges when combined shipping is requested. If we ship items separately, we do not issue a shipping refund.For our international customers: YES!! we do combine shipping. The most economical way for you to buy multiple items from us is for you to send us a list of the items you want to buy. Do not purchase them as they are listed!! (This leads to higher than necessary fees & shipping.) Send us a complete list of all the items you want. Then we will cancel the listings for the items and turn them into a special listing just for you (We'll send you the listing named before making it active). It will have your full purchase with the correct shipping box size and weight. This saves you on the international fees & shipping.

Price: 17.09 USD

Location: London, Ohio

End Time: 2024-02-21T23:21:26.000Z

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