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2. Wyman - first train stamp on a US stamp was created in 1844 for a local business, the "Wyman Post Office” which was established in Boston to carry locally posted mail between Boston and New York City. Stamps were sold 20 for $1.00 or singly for 6 cents each. The train shown is thought to be a passenger car and locomotive which is of indeterminate type, although faintly resembling the U.S. “Brother Jonathan.”

3. The Next First was New Brunswick (Scott #6), 1860, which is generally recognized as the world’s first government-issued postage stamp showing a train. (Varieties exist)

Showing a 4-4-0 loco No. 12, “The Prince of Wales” & baggage car, European & North American Railway.

Peru (Scott #19), 1871, is generally recognized as the world’s first commemorative train stamp. Issued for the 20th anniversary of the first railway in South America, located in British Guyana. Construction was in sections with the first, from Georgetown to Plaisance, opening on 3 November 1848. The opening day's festivities were marred when the locomotive ran over and killed one of the railway's directors.

4. U. S. Stamps:

1869 - Scott #114. The 3c rate was the "workhorse" of the 1869 issue, as it paid the domestic 1/2 oz rate. The stamp was printed by the National Bank Note Company who had printed all US stamps since 1861. The designer was James Macdonough. Engraving considered among the finest.

The locomotive is a classic 4-4-0 of the period. It was probably a wood-burner, suggested by the flared shape of its smokestack, but most early U.S locomotives burned wood, which was so plentiful in this country then.

Although it was not specifically stated, the 3c locomotive design was probably selected because of the completion of the trans-continental railroad in 1869. ( 4-4-0- Steam locomotives used the Whyte system for wheel arrangement in North America, and consists of three digits: The number of wheels before the driving wheels, the driving wheels, and the trailing wheels, if any.)

1901 – Scott #295, 5/01/01 - 4-4-0 locomotive No. 938 & passenger cars "Empire State Express," New York Central & Hudson River Railroad. The Postmaster General authorized the issue of a special series of postage stamps to commemorate the Pan-American Exposition. Also early (not shown) 296 4c deep red-brown & black - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad passenger vehicle and 297 5c ultramarine & black - Streetcar on Honeymoon Bridge, Niagara Falls, 1898 [see Frame – Bridges]

1944 - U.S.A. 922, 5/10/44 - 4-4-0 locomotive “Jupiter” in the painting “Golden Spike Ceremony,” by John McQuarrie. Commemorates 75th year since completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Flag blowing the wrong (?) way.

The Jupiter (of Central Pacific Railroad #60) was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive which was one of the two locos (the other being the Union Pacific No. 119) to meet at Promontory Summit in 1869 for the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. It was built in 1868 by the Schenectady Locomotive Works of New York.

5. Stamps with Train from Countries of Origin

All Aboard America – pictures of the five 33c stamps issued 8/26/99 Honoring 20th Century American Luxury Passenger Trains. Sc#3333-7.

(reading across top and down

3337 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe RR “SUPER CHIEF”

3336 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RR “HIAWATHA” -

3333 Southern Pacific RR 4-8-4 “DAYLIGHT”;

3334 Pennsylvania RR GG-1 “CONGRESSIONAL”

3335 New York Central RR streamlined 4-6-4 “20TH CENTURY LIMITED

6. Single Stamps

Paraguay #408, 11/29/44 - 4-2-2T Paraguayan Central Railway locomotive No. 10, 1861 first locomotive.

Spain 6/11/13 -150th Anniversary of railway line Barcelona - Sarria 

Single 52€ stamp shows a 0-4-0 steam locomotive number 5, ahead of a train to Sarria.

Nicaragua, Province of Zelaya, # 1L121 – 4-4-0 locomotive. Used on eastern coast. Hungary 2086, 7/15/71 - 125th anniversary of the Hungarian railway, showing a 2-2-2 locomotive “Bets” No. 70 & passenger car of first Hungarian railway; map of Central Hungarian Railway system that ran between Pest and Vac.

Japan #347, 1942 - A 4-6-2 locomotive of the Japanese National Railways, Class C59, No. 5928

Norway 9/29/2012 - The Train-set “Flirt,” NSB class 75 on Oslo Central Station. Stadler FLIRT (Fast Light Innovative Regional Train) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) These articulated sets are used on the Oslo Commuter Rail and on regional and express routes. All these trains-set have five cars, all fitted with free wireless Internet access for the passengers.

7. Single Stamps

Austria 10/3/2915 - A single €1.60 stamp shows a double-headed train hauled by class 33 and 95 locos crossing the Höllgraben viaduct of the Semmeringbahn; from a 1987 painting by Erich Pucher.

The Semmering railway: in Austria, was the first mountain railway in Europe built with a standard gauge track. It is commonly referred to as the world's first true mountain railway, due to difficult terrain and the considerable altitude difference that was mastered during its construction. It is still fully functional as a part of the Southern Railway which is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways.

Congo Peoples Republic #284, 8/1/73 - In set of Locomotives of the Congo Republic - The Golwé 6-0+0-6-4, 1935. The Golwé was a type of articulated steam locomotive manufactured in Belgium for use in French West African colonies.

[The front engine unit swiveled under the boiler and smokestack looking somewhat like a Mallet; in contrast a Garratt had its front bogie in front of the boiler. The rear engine unit was placed underneath the tender, in a manner similar to a Garratt.]

Germany 10/5/2006 – Semi-postal with proceeds for welfare causes. In set of four German high-speed trains, this is a 2000 InnerCityExpress, ET403. Issued in sheets with image of train in border, and in booklets.

Sri Lanka 2/20/2014 – one of two in a set featuring Civil Engineering Marvels of Sri Lanka Railways. This shows with a small train. One shows a diesel hauled freight train on the Nine Arch Viaduct at Gotuwala viaduct. (formerly called Ceylon)

France 1/11/2014 – 20th Anniv. of Opening the Railway Tunnel (the Chunnel) between France and Great Britain (under the Channel.) .66€ design with train emerging from tunnel on the French side.

8. Souvenir Sheets

Czechoslovakia #2658, 5/12/87 – for the Czech Technical Monuments / Praga ’88 Stamp Show

India #1952 4/16/2002 - 150th anniversary of railways of India shows train, people & Indian landscape of 1852. This souvenir sheet contains the same stamp with the train extended into the border.

9. Souvenir Sheets

Japan #396, 10/14/47 – Imperf souvenir sheet with no gum, 2-6-0 Class 7100 “Benkei” of 1880. Printed on rice paper.

Tanzania #65a, 10/4/76 - Rail Transport in East Africa - same as a Kenya set. 50c – Tanzania-Zan RR; 1’ – Nile Bridge in Uganda; 2’ – Rail station Nakuru, Kenya; 3’ – Class A loco, 1896.

10. Se-Tenant Stamps and Sheet Sets

1. Italy #1787/8, 10/3/89 150th Anniversary of Opening of Napoli-Portici Railway, the first Italian railway line built by the Bayard Co. and opened in 1839. Design of the stamp obviously from a painting by Salvatore Fergola.

2. Ireland #1603b, 4/5/2005 – 150th Anniversary of the Dublin-Belfast Line,

--one of the first Enterprise trains, 4-4-0 Class V3 cylinder compound locomotive No. 85 “Merlin,” circa 1951 at Connolly Station, Dublin

--current Enterprise whisking passengers through the Irish countryside

3. Great Britain 1/13/2004 Classic Steam Locomotives mark 200 years since first steam loco.

# 2177a Souvenir sheet with set of six stamps showing preserved steam locomotives & adjoining “tabs” in the colors of each railway company represented

2172 20p 0-4-0 “Dolgoch” of the Talyllyn Railway (narrow gauge), Wales

2173 28p Caledonian Railway (CR) No 439 0-4-4T on the Bo'ness & Kinnell Railway

2174 E (38p) Great Central Railway (GCR) class 8K 2-8-0 on the present-day preserved Great Central Railway

2175 42p Great Western Railway (GWR) Manor Class 4-6-0 “Bradley Manor” on the Severn Valley Railway

2176 47p Southern Railway (SR) West Country Class 4-6-2 “Blackmoor Vale”on the Bluebell Rw at Horsted Keynes Station

2177 68p British Railways (BR) Standard class 4 2-6-4T on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway,leaving Haworth Station

4. Australia 6/1/93 Six Australian trains in booklet form: (left to right and down)

Western Endeavor, 4-6-2 NSW Class C38 No. 3801 in 1970;

4-6-2 Victoria Railways Class S “Edward Henty” No. 302 pulling the “Spirit of Progress.”

Three locomotives: 1st, 2-6-0 Class C No.23; 2nd, 4-6-2 Class M No.6; 3rd, Class Ma of Tasmania’s “Centenary Train.”

Co-Co Class EL diesel locomotive & passenger cars of “The Ghan.”

Diesel locomotive & passenger cars of the “Kuranda Tourist Train” on trestle.

Diesel locomotive NSW Government Railways & passenger cars of the “Silver City Comet.”

11. Stamps with Trains of Other countries

Guyana 3/5/2014 - International Trains, A mini sheet with four $200 stamps, showing trains from Brazil, Israel, Australia, and Hungary

Antigua/Barbuda #938 5/22/86 – S/S with Southern Pacific Coast Daylight (Never called “express”). With a set of American trains

12. Other Countries – Marshall Islands

8/23/96 Legendary Steam Locomotives of the World (APS STAMPSHOW ’96)

613 Pane of 12, 55c se-tenant stamps, #a-l

613a 4-6-2 Pennsylvania Railroad K4 Pacific locomotive & passenger car

613b 4-8-8-4 Union Pacific Railroad “Big Boy”

613c 4-6-2 “Mallard” No. 4468 & passenger car, LNER, Great Britain

613d 4-8-4 RENFE Class 242 & baggage car, Spain

613e 4-6-2 Class 01 passenger locomotive & baggage car, German Federal Railway (DB)

613f 4-6-2 PS Group 691 steam locomotive, Italy

613g 4-6-4 “Royal Hudson” locomotive No. 2860 & passenger car, Canada

613h 2-10-0 “Evening Star” locomotive No. 92220 & freight car, Great Britain

613i 4-8-4 SAR 520 Class locomotive & passenger car, Australia

613j 4-6-4 French National Railways (SNCF) 232.U1, locomotive & passenger car

613k 2-10-2 QJ “Advance Forward,” steam locomotive & car, China

613l 4-6-4 C62 steam passenger locomotive “Swallow” & car, Japan

13. Marshall Islands –

Locomotives of the 50 U.S. states.

A minisheet with 50 stamps, each 45c value, showing US locomotives (steam) in landscapes, also railway stations, bridges and signaling towers.

14. More Foreign Trains

1. Mali C195, 10/8/73 – In a set of three Famous Locomotives, showing the 0-2-2 “Rocket” & 2-2-2 French “Buddicom. Imperf.

2. St. Lucia #713, 4-6-2 Queensland Government Railway Class B18¼, Australia, 1926 & with freight car & passenger car

NOTE: THE Leaders of the World ARE ALL SE-TENANT SETS ISSUED FOR VARIOUS SMALL ISLAND ENTITIES. AS WORLDWIDE LOCOMOTIVE ROSTER PHOTOS THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL ADDITIONS TO ANY RAILWAY THEME COLLECTION. HOWEVER, THEIR PHILATELIC VALUE IS STILL IN QUESTION! THE COVER THAT ILLUSTRATES THIS SECTION PROVES THAT AT LEAST A FEW WERE PROPERLY POSTALLYUSED.

Finding one of these postally used is not common.

3. Guinea Bissau 2/18/2015 - 80th Anniv of Metro Moscow S/S with four 850 stamps: (l to r)

- Moscow subway train "Krasnaya Strela - 75 an." 09.10.06 now, Sokolnicheskaya Line

- Retro wagon "Sokolniki" is stylized as first Metro wagon at Sokolnicheskaya Line 

- Type 81/740-741 used on the lines Arbatsko Pokrovskaya, Filyovskaya, Koltsevaya and Butowskaa 

- Sculpture of a frontier guard and his dog.  Subway car type E Metrowagonmash 1963 – 1969.

In the border of the sheet 

(left) - Retro wagon "Sokolniki" is stylized as first Metro wagon at  Sokolnicheskaya Line

(center) - Russian Soviet medal Badge "Kaganovich Metro" 1935

(right) - Metro train type Inspiro built by Siemens

15. From Countries with NO Trains

Tuvalu 2014 – World's most famous Trains of the World

A mini sheet with nine identical 60cent stamps. The design shows the locomotive of the Orange Blossom Special, which ran from New York City to Miami Florida from 1925-1953.

Two Leaders of the World with trains of Australia and Kenya.

16. WE MOVE TO OTHER RAIL ITEMS – Trolleys, Trams, Streetcars.

Hong Kong #574 10/2/90 Gutter pair of Centenary of Electrification of Hong Kong, an old electric streetcar on Des Voeux Road. Any newer stamps of Hong Kong streetcars would show double-deckers, since that is all that is used there.

Ireland #684a Miniature sheet 3/4/87, Transportation Series - with #681/4 four streetcars from various Irish cities. In border are Dublin No. 71 on O’Connell Street & Coras Iompair Eireann No. 280

681 24p Cork Tramways, electric, Cork

682 28p Dublin United Tramways Co. No. 291 passing Kilmainham jail

683 30p Howth (GNR) Tram No. 10 passing Baily Post Office, Dublin, 1902

684 46p Galway & Salthill Tramway double-deck horsedrawn car

U.S.A. #2561 9/7/91 - 29c Electric streetcars on Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC, 1903

Philippines #2819 1/28/2003 5p Manila Electric Railroad & Light Co centennial – trolley car in street

Belgium #Q327 10/15/49 - Bo-Bo electric locomotive, type 101, 1949

Note: #Q327 commemorates opening of Charleroi-Brussels electric railway line, Oct. 15, 1949

NOTE: All Belgium “Q” stamps are considered railroad items. A large B on an oval is on most stamps.

U.S.A. #3000g 10/1/95 American Comic Strips – Toonerville Trolley Folks

17. Cable Cars

Denmark - Issued April 2010, showing two San Francisco cable cars. The stamp actually was not issued to commemorate either cable cars or San Francisco, but rather a Danish pop group. The design is a copy of a record cover that in a poll was selected as the most memorable record cover in Denmark. The stamp was issued in sheets and a booklet of 12 (similar) stamps. The CJRRU had a variety of reactions as we used this on the cover of the July-August issue of The Dispatcher.

18. To Run a Railroad You Will Need

Tracks:

Great Britain - #2148, 8/12/2003 – In a set of five Pub signs **A story here

Belgium Q279, 1945-6 - Adjusting tie plates & railway signal. Same designs as a 1942 set; some of the few Belgian railroad/parcel post stamps without the “B” in oval.

St Vincent & Grenadines 1/14/2014 - Tracks on border area around four of the ‘World’s Most Famous trains’ on the $3.25 stamps which depict a French TGV, the South African ‘Blue Train’, the luxury modern European ‘Orient Express’ and a Japanese Shinkansen.

Portugal 5/17/2010 showing Cable Cars – City Mountain Railways: Portugal Post issued a series with six stamps, five are railroad related. The stamps show cable cars from different Portuguese cities: and their accompanying tracks:

€47, in Lisbon; €57 Funicular in Porto; €68 in Braga; €80 in Viana do Castelo; 1€ in Nazaré

19. Signals, etc

Germany- Federal Republic – (West Germany) #734 10/5/55 - Track & semaphore signal.

Issued for a European Timetable Conference at Weisbaden.

DDR #1083, 2/18/69 - Co-Co Class 103 electric locomotive & railway crossing signal. “Watch railroad crossings.”

Netherlands #425, 7/28/64 125th Anniversary of Netherlands Railways - Dwarf signal outside Amersfoort station switch tower, track & catenary

U.S.A. #1612, 8/23/79 $5 Railway conductor's lantern, circa 1850. Block of four on FDC.

U.S.A. #1898, 3/25/83 - Railway handcar, 1880; horizontal coil stamp, in transportation series.

20. Passengers and Stations

Gibraltar 2/19/2014 – Centenary of WW I; in set of six; soldiers in a railway passenger car.

France 6/14/2014 –Set of 12 self-adhesive stamps, in both a set of three souvenir sheets and in a booklet of 12. As the French description states: "This stamp booklet takes you to the discovery of the railway heritage of France, through the great epic of the train journey." Priority letter rate, on three mini sheets showing French locomotives through the years:

(Stations)

Australia 10/8/2013 , Australia Post issued a set of four 60c stamps in both gummed and self adhesive formats showing historic railway stations.

Ghana Jan. 2013 - 150th Anniversary of London Underground, One souvenir sheet Souvenir Sheet showing Baker Street Station of 1863.

Palau 2013 - Souvenir sheet of six $1 stamps commemorating100 year celebration of opening Grand Central Terminal New York City, using black and white photographs.

Russia 4/27/2012 – In tourism set, 20P stamp features the Sochi Railroad station; produced in three formats: sheet with all four stamps; sheets of six stamps, and as singles.(printed in six different languages).

Spain 1/27/2011–‘Architecture’ A .35-euro stamp showing the Almeria Railway Station.

Almeria station was designed by a French architect who was said to have worked for Gustave Eiffel.

21. Railroads also need [six stamps showing various items]

Finland 3/21/2012 150 Years of Finland Railroads

Booklet with six self-adhesive stamps, first class value. Each shows a train from various historical periods, including steam and diesel trains as well as a modern double deck coach, the latest Allegro unit used on the run to St Petersburg and an earlier one running through the countryside and in a station, pictured during different seasons of the year. Stamps separated by angled perforations to give a sense of movement. Other RR items in corner of each stamp.

22. Bridges

Mozambique 6/30/2010 –A mini sheet with six 33.00 MT stamps, which show bridges, of which three are railway bridges & two are shown here:

2048a & b- Beipanjiang Bridge, Peoples’ Republic of China and Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia

New Zealand #826, 6/12/85 Two diesel locomotives & passenger cars on South Rangitikei railway bridge, North Island

Guatemala #C2 – Overprint on #229 of 1926, using design of #174 of 1921, but different color.

- Steam locomotive & freight cars on La Penitenciaria Bridge, Guatemala City

Somali Coast #116, 1915-33 Steam Locomotive & Passenger Cars on Bridge at Holl-Holli, Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway

West Germany #1972, 6/20/97 100pf Steam train on Müngstener Brücke, Germany’s highest rail bridge (centenary).

New Caledonia #C78, 9/3/70 20fr Japanese National Railways Shinkansen electric MU passenger trainset on viaduct.

USA #297, 5/1/1901 - Honeymoon Bridge, Niagara Falls, 1898; - this presents the largest single span steel bridge in the world (at the time); two trolley cars are seen upon it, and a full view of Niagara Falls is shown under up the river. Part of the Pan American Expo in Buffalo, NY 1901.

23. Maps

Christmas Island (located in Indian Ocean south of Java, territory of Australia) #11, 8/28/63, - Map of island with railway lines

Hungary #2580, 6/8/79 (in a set for International Transportation Exhibition 6 (IVA ’79), souvenir sheet with one stamp with railway map of Europe; border with electric locomotive V63002, 1973 and passenger cars.

Singapore #1061, 7/18/2003 Opening of the North East Line of the MRT System in Singapore.

NVI (22c) local rate – Route map & train. Singapore: The Singapore subway began operation in 1987. It now has about 74 miles of track and has 660 million passengers annually. The system has been shown on several stamps from Singapore. The stamp issued in 2003, Sc 1061 shows the newly built North East Line in purple with the older part of the system shown in white. This stamp is on a souvenir sheet (Sc 1064).

Great Britain 1/13/2009 - British Design Classics set with ten stamps, with one stamp of the London Underground Map. Additional to the above stamps is prestige booklet containing a souvenir sheet with the metro map and two pages description of designing the map by Harry Beck. (Other Design Classics include the mini-skirt and the polypropylene chair.)

Cyprus 6/04/2010 - The Cyprus Railway 1905-1951 celebrated with two €43 stamps with old steam locomotives and one souvenir sheet with one €85 stamp picturing the map of the line with the railway stations (red points).

24. People

NOTE: The Handbook includes all postage stamps and related philatelic items identified by the compilers to depict or describe any railway equipment, railway-related items, and people connected with the railways of the world.

Just one is included here – Casey Jones, on U.S 993 4/29/50 with a 4-6-0 locomotive No. 382, Illinois Central Railroad, diesel locomotive & passenger cars of the Rock Island “Rocket,” railway signal.

And one dog, Owney, #XX. 7-27-2011.

25. Train Stamps used as Postage

US #114 – an early usage – but HOW early?

26. On Foreign Mail

Denmark; sent to NYC. #303 6/27/47- “Lyntog” Class diesel train leaving train ferry M.S. Fyn

Tanzania sent to Austria. #63 1976– Freight on bridge over Nile River. (See Frame 9)

South Africa sent to U.S #616, 4/27/83 South African Steam Locos, 4-6-0 Class 6H No. 627

27. Commercial & Railroad Covers

Two Business envelopes;

U.S.A. #2259, 7/19/88 13.2c slate-green (Bureau precancel) - Four-wheel coal car, 1873;

“Bulk Rate” in red; horizontal coil stamp, and

U.S.A. #2265, 8/16/88 21c olive-green (Bureau precancel) - Railroad mail car No. 49, 1922;

“PRESORTED FIRST CLASS” in red - horizontal coil stamp

Two from rail lines:

From Union Pacific in California to Massachusetts using #922 three months after issue.

From Illinois Central in Chicago to local address, using #295 one month after issue.

28. Railroad Perfins

From Pennsylvania Railroad office in Philadelphia to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1952, using a 3¢ George Washington that was perfinned for the PRR rail line.

29. Railroad Post Office

Japan #1732/3, 3/26/87 Railway Post Office Termination Oct. 1, 1976, Four-wheel railway post-office car, and postal workers loading railway post office car. Printed se-tenant

U.S.A. #Q3, 4/5/13 - Postal clerk in door of railway post office car

Hungary #1513, 7/6/63 - Railway mail car, in set of Transportation and Communication.

U.S.A. #2265, Railroad mail car; MIS-PERF

Sweden #1608, 8/29/86 – Interior of railway post office car. Issued in a Booklet with price including a 30k ticket to “Stockholmia ’86” Stamp Exhibition.

Spain #1955, 6/16/76 – Sorting mail in railway post office car. In Postal Service set.

Switzerland #790, 9/9/86 Mail Handling set of two.

U.S. RPO cover and cancel – 1944 Chicago & Omaha RPO cancel and cover for the 80th anniversary of the railroad post office, with a C&NW mail car pictured in the cachet.

30. Event Covers

F.D.C - Sweden #2163, 3/29/96 6kr Electric locomotive, contemporary RPO car & interior with workers sorting mail (inscribed “Postkupéer [mail carriages] 1862-1996”)

ROPEX – U.S.A. Event of stamp show in 1994 with RR cancel and. 1992 Christmas issue

#2712, with 2-2-0 Cast Iron pull toy steam locomotive & tender.

STAMP SHOW IN SPAIN - #889 - 4-8-4 Class 242-2000 locomotive, 1956, and baggage car. Stamp issued for 1958 Intern. Railway Congress, Madrid. Cachet & cancel for current stamp exhibition.

31. Railroad Meters / Cancels

Two types of meters, posted within days of each other by two railroad systems:

Chicago South Shore & South Bend line, The Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad (reporting mark CSS), also known as the South Shore Line, is a Class III freight railroad operating between Chicago, Illinois, and South Bend, Indiana and New York, Chicago and St. Louis – Nickel Plate Line.

32. Train Wrecks

(I searched and researched – but found nothing about a train wreck in this area in 1955)

33. Trains as Toys, Trains In Art, Legends & Movies – on Stamps

Jersey 11/27/2014 A set of eight Christmas stamps showing the story of “Father Christmas” shows him with a toy train in his hands on the £1.10 value.

Mozambique, #1483, 12/28/2001.. A sheetlet of nine 10,000m stamps honors “Art (Paintings) by Paul Delvaux,” In the lower left corner is his painting of a lone woman on a deserted street beside a freight train on track at night

Canada Issued Friday, the 13th, of June 2014, “Haunted Canada” set of five ghost legends on stamps. Includes the St. Louis Ghost Train. This is a supposed mysterious light seen near St. Louis, Saskatchewan, Canada. The phenomenon is a strange light moving up and down along an old abandoned rail line at night.

Canada 5/2/2014 – A booklet with ten 85c stamps, five designs celebrates the75th anniversary of the National Film Board of Canada. One stamp shows a scene from the 1965 movie "The Railrodder" with Buster Keaton riding across country on a Canadian National Railway Draisine (open-top maintenance vehicle).

34. “That’s All, Folks!”

Strip of U.S.A. #1905, 2/3/84 – Lumber Co. caboose No.5 - horizontal coil stamp

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