These postcards were either sold or (more likely) given away in pairs, allowing people to separate them along the perforations before writing and mailing them to friends and relatives. The two cards that make up this pair include photos of … Continue reading
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This postcard wasn’t issued by the Union Pacific, but it shows the rail line and it is fun to trace the history of the card and the scene it shows. This particular postcard says that it shows Tunnel No. 3 … Continue reading
These postcards show New York Central passenger trains pulled by Diesels painted in the “lightning stripes” scheme used in the late 1940s and 1950s. The first has a photo of a train along the Hudson River heading for New York … Continue reading
This postcard depicts the Spokane’s Great Northern train station, which was also used by the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway. The water in the foreground is the Spokane River, as the train station was on Havermale Island. Click image to … Continue reading
In the early 1880s, 120 construction workers (many of them prisoners provided by the state of North Carolina as a subsidy to rail construction) lost their lives build a railroad from Old Fort to Asheville, North Carolina. As a memorial … Continue reading
In 1874, the Marietta and North Georgia Railway began constructing a line that would eventually connect Atlanta with Knoxville. By the time the route was completed in 1897, the railroad was known as the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway. However, … Continue reading
Chicago & North Western fully streamlined its 400 in 1939, but the postmark on this postcard showing the train crossing the Mississippi on the Stone Arch Bridge is dated 1949. The bridge itself was built by the Great Northern Railway, … Continue reading
Two more postcards from GN-owned Glacier Park Company show two of the company’s hotels in the park. Bob and Ira Spring are credited with taking the photo of Lake McDonald Hotel with Mt. Brown in the background. Unlike Many Glacier … Continue reading
Here are more postcards published by Great Northern subsidiary, the Glacier Park Company. The first one shows a Park Service ranger leading a group of people up the Grinnell Glacier Trail, which some consider to be the finest hike in … Continue reading
These postcards were all issued by the Glacier Park Company, which was owned by the Great Northern. Although GN sold its hotels in 1960, it retained the “Glacier Park Company” name as its real estate division. So these postcards likely … Continue reading