Tag: Railroad Postcards

  • Inclined Railroadsand Funicular Railways

    Inclined Railroads
    and Funicular Railways

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    By Louis Harrington as told to Nancy Harrington This story is for John. It’s about my postcard collection of inclined railroads and funicular railways. Compared to many of you who may have collections of thousands or maybe tens of thousands, my collection is quite small. I have just added card number 103 and 104. My

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Past Article

Malcolm A. Goldstein
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Westchester County, just north of New York City, has always served as the summer retreat for wealthy New Yorkers.  In the Gilded Era, at the end of the Nineteenth Century, many of those merchant princes who had amassed wealth as a result of the enormous industrial growth that occurred in the United States after the […]

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