George Buntin designed a cast iron seat frame used by many railroads, both narrow gauge and standard gauge. Several museums have used them in passenger car restorations, including: Carter Brothers, C&T Scenic and Mid-Continent.

The people in North Freedom have been working on their East Jordon & Southern #2 combine (Osgood, Bradley &Co,1864). Now they have gotten funding for a set of these elegant seat frames.
Does anyone know anything about the man or what company he worked for?

Ted Miles

There's some info in this post, apparently he worked for his own company, George Buntin & Co. Philadelphia, PA.: https://discussion.cprr.net/2006/12/pat ... s-etc.html

There's also this from Railway World magazine from 1882, 1042 Ridge Ave Philadelphia: https://books.google.com/books?id=toNRA ... A.&f=false

Edit: There is also this thread: viewtopic.php?t=41918

1042 Ridge Ave is at Ridge Ave. and Noble St. Ridge Ave. has been a major route to Manayunk and Roxborough in Northwest Philadelphia, but for our purpoess, Noble Street is the significant street.

Willow and Noble Streets carried the Northern Liberties and Penn Township RR from 1834. It connected the tracks of the Philadelphia and Columbia RR with the Delaware River. In 1870 it was purchased by the P&R and became the City Branch of the Reading Company. By the 1970's, traffic had dwindled and it was not part of ConRail. You can still see RR tracks in the street. Remember, Phila RR's are 4' 8 1/2" gauge and trolleys are 5' 2 1/4" gauge.

This gave Mr. Buntin good rail connections throughout the USA and throughout the world by steamer from Delaware River piers.

Phil Mulligan