Trains and Tracks | September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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.
Black and White • New York • Trains and Tracks | July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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... View Full Postcard →
Black and White • Nevada • Trains and Tracks | June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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... View Full Postcard →
Lake Tahoe • Nevada • Trains and Tracks | June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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... View Full Postcard →
Colorado • Mountains • Trains and Tracks | Leave a Comment
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... View Full Postcard →
Bridges • Colorado • Lakes and Rivers • Trains and Tracks | Leave a Comment
This vintage postcard shows The Hanging Bridge in Royal Gorge Canyon, Colorado. As seen in this old postcard, passengers alight the Royal Gorge train to view the Arkansas River, the sheer granite cliffs towering above them and the engineering wonder... View Full Postcard →
Colorado • Lakes and Rivers • Trains and Tracks | Leave a Comment
This vintage Colorado postcard shows passengers looking out the back of the a passenger car of the Royal Gorge Train as it carreens through the exciting route of the Royal Gorge Canyon, wedged between the sheer granite cliffs on one... View Full Postcard →