I recently saw this advertising card for a company called B.A. Atkinson who was attempting to sell very odd looking cylindrical railroad coaches. The company was out of Boston MA, but I haven't been able to find much info about them.
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What's really odd is the reverse of the card, which reveals that Atkinson seems to have had NOTHING to do with the railroad business! The card says they were "liberal house furnishers".
So it seems the firm was only involved in outfitting these cars. Perhaps the other people involved with this venture had something to do with the unique Meigs cylindrical car experiment? Or even the pneumatic subway car man, Alfred Ely Beach of New York?
