Days Gone By

Jul 5 2012
1:32 am

At the ceremony for the driving of the “Last Spike” at Promontory Summit, Utah, 10 May 1869.

Posted 10 months ago
#1860s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #history #promontory summit #utah #USA #train #trains

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Jun 20 2012
6:55 am

A man driving a train, ca. 1920.

Posted 11 months ago
#1920s #vintage #history #trains #train

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Jun 19 2012
1:49 pm

John Carbutt, Boston & Maine No. 47 “Achilles” 0-4-0, located outside of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1871.

Posted 11 months ago
#1870s #19th century #victorian #john carbutt #trains #train #vintage #history #philadelphia #pennsylvania #USA

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Jun 17 2012
4:32 am

Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train, 1865.

Posted 11 months ago
#1860s #19th century #victorians #victorian #abraham lincoln #president lincoln #trains #train #funeral

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Jun 16 2012
6:30 pm

LNER Sentinel-Cammell steam rail car, 1928.

Posted 11 months ago
#1920s #train #train station #vintage #history

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Jun 14 2012
9:37 pm

Dining car Queen on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Royal Blue train, in 1895.

Posted 11 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #dining car #trains #train

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Jun 8 2012
2:18 am

Children waiting to board a Pullman car, Midlands, UK, ca. 1960s.

Posted 11 months ago
#1960s #vintage #midlands #england #UK #pullman car #train #trains #train station #children

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Jun 5 2012
9:56 am

Eugene Truat, Locomotive, Toulouse, France, 4 October 1899.

Source: City Archives of Toulouse

Posted 11 months ago
#1890s #19th century #vintage #history #toulouse #france #locomotive #trains #train #eugene trutat #train station

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Jun 1 2012
6:43 pm

Abbie Rowe, A crowd gathered at a railroad station at Bolivar, Missouri, to greet the presidential train. President Harry S. Truman dedicated a statue of Simon Bolivar while visiting Bolivar, 4 July 1948.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Library

Posted 11 months ago
#1940s #harry truman #history #missouri #train station #vintage #presidential train #USA #trains #train #crowd

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Apr 23 2012
2:17 am

Passenger Train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, ca. 1895 .

Posted 1 year ago
#1890s #19th century #victorian #vintage #trains #train

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