Railways: Is That The Chatanooga Choo Choo?

Railways Cinderellas:
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Wales Festinog Rail "Blanche"

Maybe it is "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" or the steam engine from Back To The Future III that Doc Brown converted.

Not sure what this is, but I assume it is a cindy...



It came to me on an album page.

Collin

That is one cool locomotive, Rod222. Here is my favourite, which happens to be the first locomotive on a stamp:



New Brunswick

Penrhyn Main Line class locomotives:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrhy...n_Line_class

F.R. = Ffestiniog Railway in Wales:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffestiniog_Railway

Configuration Original: 0-4-0ST,
Rebuilt by FR: 2-4-0ST&T

Not sure what the ST means (stubby?) but the numbers mean 0 front guiding wheels, 4 drive wheels, 0 trailing wheels (per side).

The newer loco on the stamps is the 2-4-0ST-T, the T meaning tender.

That is really neat, stamp, railway and small gauge mining railway line all.

I didn't know these existed, but should have guessed once I was introduced to Cinderellas on this forum.

ST refers to saddle tank, where the water tank is placed over the boiler. In this stamp, it would be the green curved part ahead of the cab.

Collin

I've heard the word before but never knew what it meant. Thanks!

Excellent start boys
and some knowledgeable comments to boot.

Collin, the Pichi Richi railway, (nice cinderella there )
has been celebrated on an Australian Issue 1979:

That's a lovely stamp BeeSee, listed in "railways on stamps"
but of the 270 pages, not a whisper of "the first", "the biggest" etc. Quoted in 1986 as CV= 18GBP

Festiniog Rail, Wales

Festiniog: 15p



Nene Valley "92 squadron"



Nene Valley Postal Caboose
(The nets at the rear of the carriage, capture the postal mail bags
from the station, at high speed)

Rod222 are those stamps really used on the railway, or are they purely philatelic Cinderellas?

BeeSee I have no idea, sorry.
However if I can be afforded a guess.
Stamps issued as a semi curiosity, for users of the individual rail systems, but serving a secondary purpose in raising revenue to support the upkeep of what must be a very expensive connection with the past.
British collectors would be encouraged to reply.
I am unable to establish which rail systems actually run a
genuine "off the main" branch system.