This Locomotive is not a Fake

You are looking at an authentic picture of a North Western Limited train - according to the message on the back of the post card.

This message is taken from the back of the post card. It describes why the picture on the front of the post card is this particular train. "The North Western Limited is one of four daily trains between Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis, via the double-track, block signal route of the North Western Line. It leaves Chicago northbound, and Minneapolis and St. Paul southbound every day in the year. The train equipment is electric lighted throughout and consists of buffer, smoking and library car, Pullman drawing-room and private compartment sleeping cars, and free reclining chair cars. The dining car service includes a splendid table d'hote dinner on the departure from Chicago. Other meals a la carte." This website adds more information about the railroad, itself: https://www.american-rails.com/twin-cities-400.html Of all the many granger railroads which sprawled out across the Midwest, the Chicago and North Western Railway is likely the best remembered of all. The train on the front of this post card featured modest, but very classy and tasteful interior designs (including lounges and parlor cars) and when it was streamlined in 1939 in a handsome livery of bright yellow and green (a paint scheme that would become the trademark of the 'North Western'). When the railroad was merged unto the Union Pacific in 1995 it was one of the oldest railroads in the Midwest, its name unchanged since 1859.

This post card was mailed on August 14, 1908 at 3:00 PM in Vancouver, British Columbia. That is Edward VII, King of England at the time, on the stamp. The post card was published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. This British company with offices in London, Paris and at 122 Fifth Ave, New York, operated between 1866 and the 1960's. They were founded in London, selling pictures and frames. Raphael Tuck was joined by his three sons in 1871 and published their first Christmas greeting card. In 1893 they were granted a Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria and most of their cards proudly proclaim "Art Publishers to Their Majesties The King and Queen". Adolph Tuck, one of the sons, produced their first picture postcard in 1894 of Mt. Snowden in Wales, which was sold to tourists visiting the site. They entered the postcard market in the United States in 1900 with an office in New York. American artists designed many of the postcards, but the cards were printed in Europe (Germany, Saxony, England) and then returned to the states for sale. Unfortunately, like many other postcard printers and manufacturers of their time, the history, records, original paintings and postcards of Raphael Tuck & Sons were destroyed during the bombing blitz of London during World War II. Raphael Tuck & Sons were prolific printers and produced Books, Postcards, Greeting Cards, Die Cut Cards, Fringed Silk Cards, Scrapbooks, Puzzles and more.