A good question, Mike. I'm not sure what the Durand gift shop might offer (but I'm curious to know what you find there). I myself have been a postcard fan since I was a kid, not part of any club, just collecting them for myself and sending them back and forth between friends. As for contemporary railroad postcards.....hmmm. Amtrak has a set or two which then sell which show some current trains and consists, but in recent years it's been really hard to find them on corridor trains.....the only place I see them are on long-distance runs in the Lounge car. They have 5 or 6 in a pack. Amtrak also offers some "Advertisement" postcards for some of their routes available online, but these are stylized ads with either the F40 or the Genesis and train with a romantic background, not prototypical.
There's a great little shop in Toronto's Union Station which retails a ton of Canadian railroad postcards....from modern Via Genesis back to the days of CN and CP steam. Very cool. For somewhat contemporary things, that's about all I know of. Groups like SRI sell postcards of modern images of the 1225, but that's not new equipment. Places like Steamtown do the same thing. Heck, the trolley museum I work at sells almost 2 dozen different postcards of streetcars dating from the first half of the 20th century. Some are historic views while most are more modern views of historic equipment at our museum.....the most recent of which is our Atlanta 948 streetcar (built 1926) operating on our line earlier this summer! Ours retail for 35 cents each, including tax.
Good luck, I'd be interested to know what you find. And PS, as an employee of the USPS, I'd like to thank you for helping maintain our volume of First-Class mail by sending more post cards.
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