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Category: Trains

Coming Home By Rail

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…

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…