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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.

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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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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 […]

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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, […]

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The Hanging Bridge Colorado Vintage Postcard

Last Modified: June 10, 2018

Historic Hanging Bridge Vintage Royal Gorge Postcard

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

Last Modified: June 10, 2018

Vintage Colorado postcard showing the Royal Gorge Train

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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