Wednesday, December 27, 2023

A Complex Post Card

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There are two parts to the front of this post card. The first part is the train in the background. It is a Great Northern train. This i...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Still Going Strong After All These Years!

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The locomotive shown on the front of this post card is a “Consolidation” 2-8-0 built by Baldwin in 1925, that once belonged to the St. Louis...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

You Need to be Big to Carry All of that Weight

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The locomotive on the front of this post card is a very large, M4 class locomotive. In the Whyte Classification it is a Yellowstone Type st...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

The "Copper Country Limited" at Rest

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The photo on the front of this post card is of a painting by Russ Porter. It depicts the “Copper Country Limited” pausing at Republic, Mich...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Capturing a Real Historic Moment

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The picture on the front of this post card is a capture of the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States. The picture ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Did Robert Louis Stephenson Ride This Train?

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I have a poster on the wall downstairs. It is an advertisement by the Canadian Pacific Railway for people to ride the train west. I never ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The Picture is OLD, but not the Post Card!

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/43519828 provides us with this information about the locomotive on the front of this post card, called the “Ca...