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Title
Felch Flyer
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Locomotives

Subject
Railroad bridges

Item Number
AF01a180

Relation
Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Description
Postcard view of ""The Felch Flyer"", also called ""The Lightning Express"", crossing the railroad bridge over the Sturgeon River at Foster City in August, 1910. Note the two passenger cars behind the boxcar.

Felch Flyer

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