"The Fast Mail." : Scene of catching and delivering the mails on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway

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  The mail carrier of 100 years ago. ; The flight of the fast mail on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Ry. The popular passenger route between the east and west

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  Image of an eye-level close-up perspective view of a steam locomotive, tender, and labeled mail cars passing on a track before a mother, two children, dog, and basket of fruit in the foreground, with a man throwing a mail bag from a train car to a man on the ground; the steam locomotive has a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, a cab labeled "J.H. Devereux," and the number "317" written on the locomotive; a smaller upper image of an eye-level landscape view depicting an 18th century rural scene with a man on horseback on a plank road in the foreground, and a log cabin and family behind with a man chopping wood, a woman, child, and a boy drinking water from a trough.

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  Great Lake Shore route : No ferries! No delays! The fastest limited trains in the world run via Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway and New-York Central & Hudson River R.R

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  The superintendents locomotive star built by the Central R.R. of New Jersey Machine Works at Elizabethport N.J

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  The superintendents locomotive star built by the Central R.R. of New Jersey Machine Works, Elizabethport N.J

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  The only route via Niagara Falls & suspension bridge: for Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and all points west take the Great Western & Michigan Central R'y Line

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  Lawrence Machine Shop, Lawrence, Mass. Passenger Engine, 22 tons

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