The iron mountain route fast mail train : 3 through express trains daily between St. Louis & Texas

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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 western and south western U.S. Mail Route. New York and Erie broad gauge railroad ... (New York, May, 1855.)

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  Image of a broadside with text advertising the routes of the New York and Erie Railroad; wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive, tender, and cars in a rural setting centered in the upper half of the poster and a wood-engraved vignette of a steamship centered in the lower half of the poster.

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  Solid for Texas the iron mountain route is now running two solid trains from St. Louis to the South-West

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  Image of a poster with an engraved map of part of the Southwestern United States from New Mexico to Mississippi, and north to Nebraska and Iowa, with railroad routes of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and related lines depicted; map is centered in a poster containing promotional descriptions and timetable of the Iron Mountain Route.

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  Iron Mountain route! St. Louis to Texas! : The only route to Hot Springs, Arkansas. : The short line to Arkansas and Texas

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  Image of a wood-engraved map of the railroad route of the Texas Short Line of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway from St. Louis, Missouri, through Arkansas, to Texas, centered in a double-sided poster with promotional text about the line and tickets, and a timetable on the verso.

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

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  Image of an eye-level perspective view of a steam locomotive, tender, and labeled mail cars passing on a track before a mother, two children, a 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, an engineer behind the cab labeled "J.H. Devereux", the number "317" written on the locomotive, and a Masonic logo on the smoke-box door.

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  Great Eastern rail road route over Massachusetts western rail road, from Albany or Troy for Boston

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  Image of a broadside advertising the route of the Great Eastern Railroad with a wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, and a freight car and passenger car centered in the upper third of the poster; decorated border.

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