This collection of 20 hand-colored postcards was issued by the Gowen Sutton Company of Vancouver, BC, no doubt with the cooperation of the Canadian Pacific as most of the photos are of CPR trains, tracks, and hotels. Frank Gowen preferred … Continue reading
George Stephen and Donald Smith were the two primary financiers behind construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the nation honored them by naming prominent peaks in the Canadian Rockies after them. Both were made peers of the British Empire … Continue reading
Here are some more Fred Harvey postcards from my collection. The first is from the linen era, meaning it was probably published in the 1930s, and shows the Spanish Peaks in south central Colorado. These mountains were visible from Santa … Continue reading
Rock Island introduced the Budd-built, GMC-powered Rockets in 1937, and this postcard is a variation of one we previously seen. It seems to be older as it only shows one headlight on the TA locomotive while the other one shows … Continue reading
All of the photos in today’s postcards are taken from nearly the same spot of different eras of passenger trains in Colorado’s Royal Gorge. The first shows a moonlit-train passing through the gorge with no sign of a suspension bridge … Continue reading
Here are some postcards either issued by or showing scenes along the Rio Grande Railroad. The first one, which shows Colorado Springs’ Garden of the Gods as viewed from the visitor center, is marked “D&RG Ry.” The lack of a … Continue reading
In August, 1927, someone on a Burlington Escorted Tour sent the following postcard from the Lake Hotel in Yellowstone to a friend in Chicago. “Will endeavor to tell you about this wonderfull Co. when I get back if language don’t … Continue reading
Burlington’s Zephyr was introduced at the 1934 Century of Progress Fair in Chicago, but that fair actually began in 1933. These postcards show some of Burlington’s exhibits in that first year. Click image to download a 184-KB PDF of this … Continue reading
White border postcards such as these are supposed to date to somewhere between 1915 and 1930, and all three show locomotives and cars that could be from those years. The first is a colorized photo by Fred Kiser, the Portland … Continue reading
Our final Northern Pacific postcards, at least for awhile, are from the Vista-Dome era, meaning 1954 or later. The first card shows the Vancouver, BC skyline of the mid-1950s. It has certainly changed since then, as it is now crowded … Continue reading
