This is a reversed relief image of a train (4-8-4 steam locomotive, tender, and five cars) on a track and passing a signal. The words "the Gospel Train" are spelled in reverse, the title of a song, perhaps of African-American traditional origin, and…
Chciago area remained territory granted to Native Americans, Potowatomies, until 1836, only following the 1832 Blackhawk War--making it one of the last major U.S. metropolitan areas to be founded, following St. Louis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.…
This embossed metal emblem appeared as part of the menu on the early, or 1941, nightly express train "The Prospector" between Denver and Salt Lake City. As a brochure promoting the train from the period shows, this emblem in the form of a gold nugget…