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Thank you for stopping by! This is the blog for the Russell P. Panecki Collection of vintage railroad-related postcards. The entire collection consists of nearly one thousand so far with images dating from circa 1904 to the 1950s. To leave a comment, ask a question, to contribute or correct historical information, a comment box is located to the left for your convenience.

Each page, including this homepage, has an index located in the lower portion of the page. In addition to the index, posts were updated with historical information, new postcards added from storage files, while some posts were completely rewritten or edited for corrections. Three articles have been added and are worth reading. They include how vintage postcards were made, the history of Pennsylvania Station, and the history of Grand Central Terminal.

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Friday, October 13, 2023

Private Car "Fritzi Scheff" Interior


The "West Point Route" was the name given to two separate but jointly operating railroads, the Atlanta and West Point Railroad and the Western Railway of Alabama. The two lines connected Augusta, Georgia and Selma, Alabama. From an earlier part of the two railroad's history, they were subsidiaries of the Louisville & Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line  until the 1980s.  This railroad-issued 1907 view is of the dining room portion of the private car "Fritzi Scheff", complete with a piano for the entertainment of  guests. The car was owned by the famous opera singer of the same name born in 1879 in Vienna and who died in New York City in 1954.


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