I received an unusual inquiry today from a gentleman who asked if I knew anything locally about a railroad traveling exhibit wheret folks paid a fee and then viewed a preserved whale in a specially-built rail car! This would have been the 1935-1943 era....

All I could find on-line was a reference to the Enfinger-Whale show at

http://www.sideshowworld.com/13-TGOD/MV ... imi-G.html

Does anybody out there have any information (however basic) on this unusual sideshow? Any idea who designed and what happened to the rail car?

Thanks!

Matt Bumgarner

Is this it?

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/thompson-ss/

I don't think so... I talked to one of the older members of our chapter who was a boy at the time. He remembers something like a gondola parked on a siding and people walked on a catwalk around the railcar and looked down into the tank... He was small at the time and doesn't remember anything beyond this.

Thanks!

Matt Bumgarner

I did some serious Googling and found a few more leads for you...
it appears to have been very common -

http://www.sideshowworld.com/s/snlp/snl ... 006-4.html

http://www.sideshowworld.com/13-TGOD/20 ... -Irvy.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=AR4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=Pacific+Whaling+Co+rail&source=bl&ots=RRYYUhMlOi&sig=3ypdqPQM8G3ms8PNpTocfsV4taE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VsnPUNuWEKOW0QHRzID4Dw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Pacific%20Whaling%20Co%20rail&f=true

Regards,
Sully