Focus on the Train!!

The train you are looking at on the front of this post card (bottom right-hand corner) is a New York Central train running on the River Subdivision. Today it is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. The line runs from the North Bergen Yard in Hudson County, New Jersey, north to Ravena, New York, along the alignment of the West Shore Railroad, a former New York Central Railroad line. This information is from Wikipedia. The post card is not focused on the train, however. It is focused on the Storm King Highway - I know, What is wrong with them? This website gives us information about the highway: https://www.bing.com/maps?q=Storm+King+highway&form=ANNTH1&refig=e722dc6ff90e4ea4acb6441c88a628c0 The Storm King Highway is a three-mile segment of New York State Route 218 between Lee Road in the Town of Highlands at the south end and the Cornwall-on-Hudson village line in Orange County, New York, in the United States. It was built in 1916 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 in recognition of its accomplishment in civil engineering.

The post card was published by Ruben Publishing Company out of Newburgh, New York. This website catches us up on the information about Mr. Ruben and his publishing company: https://www.doaks.org/research/library-archives/dumbarton-oaks-archives/collections/ephemera/names/ruben-publishing-co The Ruben Publishing Co. (also Ruben's, Newburgh, N.Y. and J. Ruben, Newburgh, N.Y.) was founded by Jacob Ruben (1882–1974) in Newburgh, New York. Ruben opened a stationery business there in 1906, although his publishing business is listed at various Newburgh addresses, including 13-15 South Johnson Street, 39 Johnston Street, 95-97 Ann Street, and 76 Broadway. Ruben was a Russian-American émigré who became a well-known commercial photographer in the Hudson River Valley area near Newburgh for over four decades until after the Second World War. He was especially well-known for his tourist photographic postcard sets, which he published under his company name. He also photographed new real estate developments, bridge and road building projects, and other civic projects.