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Years ago, there was a source in Iowa for old photographic postcards of railroad stations.  I wrote to the site, and got

a response that she did not have a postcard for the two  Southern Railway small town Kentucky stations from my childhood.

I have mentioned playing around one of them on here.  I guessed that her husband collected them and she was selling them off, or repros of them, as there were a lot of towns available.  I think I did get a couple for other towns.  I still want a photo of those two and wonder if there is another source for station photos that would have encompassed a great many stations in the U.sS.  There were so many of those postcards available, I wondered if somebody once made a living riding

the rails and photographing every small town station?

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Becky, T & GM:  Thank you for that first list, which I went through.  Now on to the second.  I can't believe Livingston, Montana has/had a RR station that large!  I have been in the post office there, which IS huge, for it has halls, like a high school, but lined with P.O. boxes, I assume for farflung ranchers, and I guess RFD is not practiced due to distances.  But I don't remember the town as very large, nor any railroad. There were Southern stations on the first list, but I didn't see any Kentucky ones.

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