Thursday, December 28, 2017

Is Seventy Years Ago Today is Still an Antique?

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The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad needed its own exotic Miami-bound passenger train after rival Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SALRR) debuted it...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Ninety Seven Years Ago Today

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The picture on the front of this post card is from inside the Royal Gorge. It is called this or "The Grand Canyon of the Arkansas Rive...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

One Hundred and Fifteen Years Ago Today

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On 13 April 1897 Lucian D. Ross, Thomas Burk, James L. Lindsay, W.T. Doubt and Kurnel R. Babbitt organized the Cripple Creek District Railwa...
Friday, November 24, 2017

One Hundred and Twelve Years Ago Today

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The CNoR (this is the official reporting mark, not the C.N.R. on the post card) main line reached Edmonton. It arrived in Edmonton on Novem...
Friday, November 17, 2017

One Hundred and Nine Years Ago Today

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The Lucin Cut-off is a railroad line which included a railroad trestle which crossed the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Built by the Southern Paci...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

One Hundred and Six Years Ago Today

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The First World War was not even four months old; it would be another four years before the significance of November 11th would take hold of...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

One Hundred and Thirty Two Years Ago

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The front of this post card is a reproduction of a poster from 1945. It commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the driving of the last sp...