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Vintage American Archives for Scene / Type Trains and Tracks

Trains and Tracks

Christmas Train with Flags

Last Modified: June 9, 2018

Everyone loves trains at Christmas time. In this vintage train postcard we see passengers dressed in Victorian clothing headed somewhere – to visit family and friends. It strikes the imagination with wonder – Where are they going? Whom will they visit? Will it snow? Will there be a grand Christmas tree and a party? Children […]

Filed Under: Christmas, Trains and Tracks Tagged With: Christmas postcard, christmas train, old postcards, old train postcard, vintage postcards

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Old Steam Locomotive Train in White Pass British Columbia

Last Modified: June 9, 2018

This is not an old postcard, but the picture is great of an old-fashioned steam locomotive train traveling through the White Pass to Skagway, British Columbia with a snow covered mountain in the background.

Filed Under: Trains and Tracks Tagged With: locomotive, old train postcard, postcard, railroads, train, trains

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Vintage Niagara Falls Postcard of the American Falls

Last Modified: March 24, 2011

This vintage Niagara Falls Postcard from 1910 shows the American Falls and the International Railway Bridge across the Niagara River. The International Railway Bridge, built in 1873 by the International Bridge Company, allows trains to cross the Niagara River between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. The construction of this bridge at this point […]

Filed Under: Bridges, Lakes and Rivers, Niagara Falls, Trains and Tracks Tagged With: locomotive, Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls postcard, old locomotives, old postcards, postcard, vintage postcards

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Vintage 1900s Baldwin Locomotive in Long Island, NY

Last Modified: June 10, 2018

This vintage black and white photograph, dated April 1901, shows a Baldwin Locomotive with the Engineer posing in the cab window. This train is called the Long island No. 1 at Morris Park, Long Island, N.Y. It is one of two 4-4-2 “camelbacks,” Class E.51.S, construction No. 18937, that Baldwin completed for the line in […]

Filed Under: Black and White, New York, Trains and Tracks Tagged With: locomotive, New York postcard, old locomotives, old postcards, old train postcard, postcard, railroads, train, trains, vintage postcards

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Train Wreck Vintage Postcard

Last Modified: June 10, 2018

1889 Train Wreck Vintage Nevada Postcard

This vintage postcard shows a train wreck in the 1800s in the snow of Nevada. Here we see men digging the train out of the snow, while stopping to pose for the picture. The card says “V. & T.R.R. Wrecked 1889 Ploughing Snow, Gold Hill, Nevada.” This is a wreck of one of the Virginia […]

Filed Under: Black and White, Nevada, Trains and Tracks Tagged With: locomotive, Nevada, Nevada postcards, old locomotives, old postcards, old train postcard, postcard, railroad postcard, railroads, train, trains, vintage postcards

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Entrance to The Narrows Vintage Postcard

Last Modified: June 10, 2018

Vintage Postcard of the Entrance to the Narrows in Cumberland, Maryland

This vintage postcard is dated 1910 and is titled “Big Rock Entrance to The Narrows, Cumberland, Maryland.” The scene shows the Western Maryland railroad line curving around a rock with a sheer, almost vertical cliff to enter The Narrows, the valley cut between the mountain cliffs. This being the railroad entrance to the valley and […]

Filed Under: Bridges, Maryland, Trains and Tracks Tagged With: Maryland, Maryland postcards, old postcards, old train postcard, postcard, railroad postcard, railroads, vintage postcards

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Old Tahoe Train Vintage Postcard

Last Modified: June 10, 2018

Vintage Lake Tahoe Postcard of the Locomotive Glenbrook

This vintage postcard shows an old Lake Tahoe train locomotive called, the No. 1 Glenbrook, at the Train Museum in Reno, Nevada. No. 1 Glenbrook was the name of the train that ran the “narrow gauge line” between Truckee, California and Lake Tahoe, delivering visitors to the lake. People could come up from the San […]

Filed Under: Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Trains and Tracks Tagged With: Lake Tahoe postcard, locomotive, Nevada, old locomotives, old postcards, old train postcard, postcard, railroads, train, trains

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Old Train in Royal Gorge Vintage Postcard

Last Modified: June 10, 2018

Fissure in Royal Gorge Canyon known as The Crevice with an old Train

Shown in this vintage postcard is an old train from 1914 as seen through a fissure ( known simply as “The Crevice”) in the solid rock walls of the Royal Gorge Canyon in Colorado. The Royal Gorge Canyon is a steep gorge through the solid granite of the mountain called Fremont Peak near CaƱon City, […]

Filed Under: Colorado, Mountains, Trains and Tracks Tagged With: canyon, Colorado, Colorado postcards, locomotive, old locomotives, old postcards, old train postcard, postcard, railroads, Rocky Mountains, train, trains

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Second Tunnel in Royal Gorge Vintage Postcard

Last Modified: June 10, 2018

Vintage Colorad Postcard of the Second Tunnel in Royal Gorge

This is known as the Second Tunnel in the Royal Gorge train route through the Royal Gorge Canyon. Today, the Second Tunnel in the Royal Gorge is a hiking trail and part of the Royal Gorge Park.

Filed Under: Colorado, Mountains, Trains and Tracks Tagged With: Colorado, Colorado postcards, old postcards, old train postcard, postcard, railroad postcard, railroads, Rocky Mountains

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First Tunnel in Royal Gorge Vintage Postcard

Last Modified: June 10, 2018

Vintage Colorado Postcard of the First Tunnel in Royal Gorge

Shown here is what is known as The First Tunnel in the Royal Gorge train route. Today, The First Tunnel in the Royal Gorge is a hiking trail and part of the Royal Gorge Park.

Filed Under: Colorado, Mountains, Trains and Tracks Tagged With: Colorado, Colorado postcards, old postcards, postcard, railroad postcard, railroads, Rocky Mountains, vintage postcards

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