This vintage Easter postcard features two bunnies on a train. One bunny is riding in the engine and the other is in the caboose, behind a boxcar filled with colorful Easter eggs. There is a cluster of pussy willows in the foreground on the lower left side of the card and on the lower right…
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Retro Valentine Envelopes
Here are two retro valentine printable envelopes. The first envelope has an illustration of a young artistic girl with a palette of paints in her hand. There is a white space for the name of the recipient on one side of the envelope and a pink heart with the message “with Love” on the other…
Choo-Choose Me Valentine
This cute vintage valentine features a young boy, dressed as an engineer, driving a toy train that has been decorated for Valentine’s Day. The message on the card is: Choo-Choose Me ~ I’m Steamed Up Over You! The illustration is from a valentine book that was published in the 1940s; it was not copyrighted. Click on…
Train Travel ~ Vintage Magazine Advertisement
This vintage magazine advertisement for Rock Island-Frisco Lines claims you can travel to Switzerland in a night. Well, not really, “but you can leave Chicago or St. Louis today and be in the Colorado Rockies tomorrow long before dinner. You can take the Rock Island to the Rockies, the only line with direct service to…
Toy Trains Aged Catalogue Pages
Here are two full-size catalogue pages of toy trains. Some of these trains were operated by electricity and some had a clockwork motor that was wound with a key. Extra track, a train station and other accessories were also available to purchase. The pages are from a 1916 Sears Roebuck and Co. catalogue. Click on…
Free Vintage Image ~ Toy Train Clip Art
This vintage listing for a toy train is from the 1916 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue. This set came with a red engine and tender and cost $1.00. A tender is a rail car that carries wood, coal or oil and water to keep the locomotive running for long distances (I had to look that…
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Christmas Ad
This is a delightful Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway vintage Christmas advertisement. Grandma and Grandpa have travelled in a horse-drawn carriage to meet family who have arrived by train. The ad is from the Christmas 1898 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Click on image to enlarge.
Vintage Whitney Postcard ~ Wake up! It’s Christmas.
Here is a cute vintage Whitney postcard with twin red haired toddlers in matching white pajamas, at the door of of their parents’ room on Christmas morning. One is playing a trumpet and the other is drumming a drum. I think their parents would have been awake in no time! Click on image to enlarge.
