These three postcards arrived in my post box in the second week of June, 2022. An envelope contained three old postcards, and a brief cover letter explaining that I might be interested in them, or that I may know who might be. Thank you Jan Kryff, Amsterdam, for sending them to me. It isn't every day that 115 year old railway postcards arrive in the mail. Presumably Jan found the little Jacobus Semeyn biography on my BC Artists web site.

Interestingly, the UBC Chung Collection includes a postcard of CPR 825. It shows the exact same scene, except that the image is painted as a bright sunny day. The titles of the two postcards are the same, but printed differently.

The postcard captioned "Four Engines driving Passenger train to Summit of Rockies" shows a view of "Safety Switch Number 1" alongside the Kicking Horse River. The siding on the right side of the photograph was intended for runaway trains that were going too fast on the mainline.

So far I have not found a translator for the postcards, they are written in some sort of old Dutch language or vernacular. One Dutch person who looked at scans of these postcards said that his father wrote and spoke like that, but he wasn't able to translate these.