About My Trains

Every post card in my collection has its own story. Every Wednesday I post one of the 3,000 plus stories.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

What a Difference Fourteen Years Can Make

This postcard is a picture of “The Portals in the Canyon of the Grand River”. As you can see, it is aptly named: A portal is an entry point...

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Pike's Peak or Bust

Summit of Pike’s Peak Needless to say, Pike’s Peak was there long before Lieutenant Zebulon Pike first saw it in November of 1806. The re...

Friday, September 13, 2013

Not Salt Lake Utah Exactly

This post card is showing the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge, spanning the Santa Anna River, west of Riverside, California. This bridge ha...

Friday, September 6, 2013

Beautiful and Dangerous

The scene on this post card is of a small section of Southern Pacific railroad in northern California. It is located in very northern Calif...

Friday, August 30, 2013

From the Desert to Paradise

Here is another post card promoting the joyous bliss of living in southern California! The title is: "IN CALIFORNIA = 'THE LAND O...

Friday, August 23, 2013

Not all is orange blossoms

The last couple of posts have been about trains entering southern California through beautiful orange groves. This post card shows what th...

Saturday, August 17, 2013

You Can Trust a Post Card Picture! Can’t you?

Here we are again, passing through an orange grove in Southern California. The previous blog post showed the front of a train; this is wha...

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David: That is me in the vest on the railcar on our wedding day. We were married on the steam train in Fort Edmonton Park. I have over 3,000 post cards to share with you. This may take a long time, but I think it will be worth it!!

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