Divided Back postcard. Postmarked from Loudonville, Ohio, October 10, 1908. Price: $10.00 Railway days……. There are other “Coming Home By Rail” postcards that can be found online; the joke, of course, being that the person is not traveling by train…Read More…
Category: Trains
Canadian National Railways Steam Engine 6218
Two vintage black and white steam engine photos, October 1966. Price for set: $10.00 Size: 3 and 1/2 x 5″ each. October 1966, she’s a beauty…. The CN Steam engine 6218 (4-8-4). She’s moving away from us, toward our left….Read More…
J. J. Mahoney, Trainmaster, Chicago & Alton Railroad
Business card. Circa 1900 – 1910, but see the comment below this post. Price: $15.00 Size: About 3 and 5/8 x 2 and 1/4″ A nice piece of history involving the Chicago & Alton Railroad: the business card for Trainmaster,…Read More…
Père Marquette Depot, Bangor, Michigan
“Dare Cousons I thought wood send you card to let ya now I am picking haye[?] now I am will [well] and having good time – from Eathy to Milson.” This Real Photo Postcard, circa 1910, shows a train at…Read More…
Seven Women In Alaska
A blurry but interesting Real Photo Postcard that was marked “Alaska” on the little sticker on the plastic sleeve, showing a group of seven smiling ladies posing in front of what might be a wooden train depot or station of…Read More…
Railstop
Here’s a really cool semi-candid Real Photo Postcard showing railroad workers at work, and a gentleman posed for the camera in the foreground, leaning against the train. It looks like they are at a rail stop, having just arrived or…Read More…
Old Ironsides
“Because of the success of Matthias W. Baldwin’s first locomotive, a small working model that ran on miniature tracks at the Philadelphia Museum in 1831, officials of the six-mile Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad (now part of the Reading system)…Read More…