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Old Steam Locomotive Train in White Pass British Columbia

Annie Rose — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:08:03 +0000

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.

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Vintage 1900s Baldwin Locomotive in Long Island, NY

Annie Rose — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:11:09 +0000

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 […]

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Train Wreck Vintage Postcard

Annie Rose — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:24:36 +0000

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 […]

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Entrance to The Narrows Vintage Postcard

Annie Rose — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:38:49 +0000

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 […]

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Old Tahoe Train Vintage Postcard

Annie Rose — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:15:23 +0000

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 […]

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Old Train in Royal Gorge Vintage Postcard

Annie Rose — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:07:03 +0000

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 Cañon City, […]

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Second Tunnel in Royal Gorge Vintage Postcard

Annie Rose — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:02:25 +0000

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.

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First Tunnel in Royal Gorge Vintage Postcard

Annie Rose — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:58:17 +0000

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.

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The Hanging Bridge Colorado Vintage Postcard

Annie Rose — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:39:55 +0000

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 of The Hanging Bridge that spans the gorge. The construction of the train route through […]

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Royal Gorge Train Vintage Postcard

Annie Rose — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:34:49 +0000

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 side and the racing waters of the Arkansas River on the other. The Royal Gorge […]

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