This railroad-issued card from the 1920s brings two favorite Canadian National dining car recipes right to your home. The card's reverse side shows the handsome 6100 class 4-8-4 locomotive used in long distance passenger service.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Shore Line Electric Railway Co.
The Guilford, Connecticut central park, known as 'the green' in any New England town, was a main stop on the Shore Line Electric Railway as seen in this circa 1912 card. The car is an early center-entrance car with multiple-unit (MU) connections allowing two or more cars to be coupled together and operated as a train from the lead car.
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The Roundhouse Gang
This circa 1920 postcard shows good detail of a Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad's road locos in the roundhouse. Note the relative size of the locos to the roundhouse crew members.
PRR Yards at Wall Pennsylvania
This 1909 view of the Pennsylvania Railroad yards at Wall gives us a good view of the mainline, approach tracks, and yard ladder in the distance. Note the small yard shack and the period wooden boxcar in the foreground.
The Lackawanna Limited
Passenger service between New York via Hoboken, NJ, Scranton, PA, and Buffalo, NY was aptly handled by the DL&W, 'The Road of Anthracite'. This 'hard coal carrier' provided first-rate accommodations in the cars of 'The Lackawanna Limited' which went on to become 'The Phoebe Snow' in 1949. In these circa 1915 and 1920 cards, we see DL&W's Train #1 pulled by two kinds of motive power while dining car porters stand ready to show us to our table. In the first postcard, note the lower quadrant semaphore.
The Oriental Limited
The Oriental Limited was the Great Northern Railroad's flagship passenger train from 1905 to 1929 providing service from Chicago to St. Paul via the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and then onto Great Northern rails to Seattle. In these two circa 1915 postcards, we can get an idea of what it was like to travel across the country on a rolling first-class hotel. Despite the appearance created by the scenery as seen through the car's windows, telephone service was only provided through phone line hook-up when the train was in station. Note the early vacuum cleaner in the second card.
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