Hairy heads on the railroad

No. 2. Taxidermist's Department of the Kansas Pacific Railway. Buffalo, originally uploaded by SMU Central University Libraries.

It is amazing what you can find accidentally on the internet. This photo is from the archives at a university and shows the taxidermy department at Kansas Pacific Railway. The stuffed buffalo heads where apparently used for advertising. Times were different back then. I wonder if this was the only railroad that had a taxidermy department. (I better ask PP and BV, they know everything important about railroads, or they can find out if they don't know.)