1901 McKinley Train

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

May 10, 1901 Tribune librarian Sharon Morem has uncovered a stack of old prints from our files. Some of them are from before the paper published photos but they were printed on our pages at a later date so that is good enough to include in the blog. The election season is ...

1965 Last Mail Train

Friday, February 29th, 2008

    May 20, 1965 UPDATE Thanks to an assist from Bruce Petty with Los Angeles River Railroads we now have the correct date. According to a post on their website the Coast Mail was nicknamed Sad Sam. The page also says mail trains were slower than others because of the time needed to ...