Oh, to be able to "fly" again!!

The locomotive on the front of this post card is the Denver and Rio Grande

Western No. 169. The information about it here is taken from our good friends at Wikipedia. No. 169 is a 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" type narrow gauge steam railway locomotive and one of twelve similar locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1883. It was built as a passenger locomotive, with 46 in (1,200 mm) drivers, the second largest drivers used on any three foot gauge D&RGW locomotive. (The K-37s which were originally standard gauge have 44 in (1,100 mm) drivers.) During its operational life it was used on all of the major D&RGW narrow gauge lines. It appears in two Otto Perry photographs on the branch to Santa Fe, New Mexico in April 1933. It was taken out of service in 1938 and then refurbished in 1939 to appear at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In 1941, the railroad donated it to the City of Alamosa and it has been in Cole Park there since. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Locomotive No.169 in 2001.

Judging by the back of the post card, the city of Alamosa is trying to raise enough money to get No. 169 ready to “fly” again. There is no printer or publisher listed on the back of the post card, so I think that the city itself has taken on the responsibility to print this card and sell it to help raise the funds necessary. I wish them the best of luck!!