1908 RPPC photo postcard railway track maintenance A.T. & S.F. Railroad

$95.00 CAD

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Rare photo of an Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe railway car loaded with what looks like wood posts, connected to a digger car (?) with claw-like extension. Five men in photo. Track laying set-up?

Two cent Washington stamp was used in 1906-08. Postmark ‘CANADIAN MAR – 1906(8?)

Text on back in Danish, and mailed to Denmark.

Crease UR corner where mounted in album. Text on back bit smudged. 

(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale) 

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF), often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. Chartered in February 1859, the railroad reached the Kansas-Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876. To create a demand for its services, the railroad set up real estate offices and sold farm land from the land grants that it was awarded by Congress.

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