A gleaming yellow streamliner rockets head-on across the famous Lucin Cut-Off causeway as the Great Salt Lake blazes crimson and gold at sunset — this dramatic linen postcard, card no. 957 published by the Desert Book Company of Salt Lake City and printed by Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago (C.T. Art-Colortone, code 6A-H2493, placing production c. 1936), is one of the most visually arresting railroad landscape cards from the American West. The 102.9-mile causeway, opened March 8, 1904 at a cost of $4,500,000 and two years of effort, allowed trains to cross the northern arms of the Great Salt Lake directly to Lucin — a genuine engineering marvel. This card was mailed and addressed to a Jack at 1679 Madison St. NW, Washington D.C., with a handwritten message discussing travel plans to Salt Lake City; it bears a 1-cent Benjamin Franklin green stamp (Scott #552 or similar flat-press issue, c. 1923–26). The linen texture, vivid Teich color printing, and used/mailed status with original message make this a particularly desirable example.