PopKulture's photos with the keyword: railroad

“No State in the Valley of the Mississippi offers so great an inducement to the settler as the State of Illinois. There is no portion of the world where all the conditions of climate and soil so admirable combine to produce those two great staples, Corn and Wheat, as the Prairies of Illinois.” Back cover of December 1863 issue The Farmer and Gardener magazine, with an interesting advertisement for Illinois Central Railroad touting rich farmland for sale in the "garden state of the west." Curiously, it is Illinois that is referred to as the "state of the west" and not California as one might guess.

Antique sheet music giveaway entitled "My Florida Home" - back cover, dated 1891, courtesy of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad. This terrific old piece of Floridiana espouses the then-unknown peninsula's great many virtues, such as its teeming rivers and lakes, its phosphate mines, and of course tobacco plantations.

Antique sheet music giveaway entitled "My Florida Home" - dated 1891, courtesy of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad. The back cover of this terrific piece of Floridiana espouses the then-unknown peninsula's great many virtues, such as its teeming rivers and lakes, its phosphate mines, and of course tobacco plantations.

Vintage postcard folder of the Union Pacific Overland Route and one of their famous 'Streamliner' locomotives - circa 1944.

Real photo postcard view of Chicago streetcar workers - circa 1920's. The gentleman third from left leaning against the shack is my grandfather, who worked as a conductor.