@RickO posted:Seems like an awfully elaborate fake. Aging the paper, scribbling a (fake)date and info on the back. Just to hand off to a neighbor.
Hi Rick: This photo was faked in a home darkroom or professional darkroom, back in the twenties. The aging of the photo paper took place after the faking process. If this was real more than one photographer would have taken a picture of a locomotive in a flood with the train crew on the locomotive. I have searched over a billion photos with “Google Lens” there are no similar photos. This is a fake.
Gary: Hope to see you out rail-fanning. 🚂