That would be the Monsted-Vincent MV-1 Starflight...
Monsted-Vincent
(Robert) Monsted-(H Farley) Vincent, New Orleans LA.
Monsted-Vincent Star Flight [X77770] (Dan Shumaker coll) Monsted-Vincent Star Flight Wind victim [X77770] (Dan Shumaker coll)
Star Flight 1948 = 5pChwM rg; four 85hp Continental C-85 pusher; span: 48'5" length: 34'6" load: 1800# v: x/145/65 range: 1200; ff: 10/1/48. Art Turner. All-metal; looked like a scaled-down B-36 bomber. POP: 1 [X77770]. The best parts of the only four-motor plane ever built in Louisiana were still in existence in 1992 at Wedell-Williams Museum in Patterson LA.
The Budd Conestoga is what you're referring to, I think Jim - and in some ways this mystery nose does resemble that of the Conestoga, but mine has four engines...
Oh isn't that a Convair or something light that? Where they cut up a DC something and put the cockpit on top to make her a straight through cargo ship?