Trains On Stamps

The Kingdom of Laos, which has existed between the years 1952-1975, issued only three stamps and four SS's show trains. Here they are:

Modern post carriers, designed by Chamnane Prisayane, engraved by Jacques Combet and issued on November 15, 1962 to publicize the Vientiane Stamp Exhibition and Stamp Day. This stamp was issued also in SS (Very expensive):


Centenary of the Universal Postal Union, issued on July 7, 1975. This stamp was not issued as a single:

The First Transcontinental Railroad (Completed 1869) - Railway between Nebraska to California, issued on July 30, 1975 to commemorate USA Bicentenary:


Panama Canal - Constructed by USA to Join the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean (Completed in 1914), issued on July 30, 1975 to commemorate the USA Bicentenary:

Two train stamps issued for use in French West Africa (AOF):

Train in Senegal, Issued on March 24, 1947:

FIDES Development Fund, train in Mossi, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), issued on February 20, 1956:

Reopening of the railway route Saigon - Dong Ha, designed by Huynh Van Phung, engraved by Jacques Combet and issued by the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) on August 7, 1959:

"The railways of the Holy Land" set of four stamps issued by Israel on December 13, 1977:

First locomotive in the land of Israel
Constructed for the French Jaffa-Jerusalem line in 1890-1893 by the firm of Baldwin, Pennsylvania, USA. Type "Mogul", 2-6-0, it had a special tender attached for carrying supplies of water and coal:

Locomotive of the Jezreel valley train
Type 0-6-0 locomotive (i.e. without directional and balancing wheels). Constructed in Germany in 1899 for the Hejaz Railway and used mainly for light hauls or for shunting at stations. Used on the Emek Railway and on the Haifa-Akko line up to 1948:

Locomotive from the British Mandate period
One of the six type 4-6-0 "P" class locomotives built in Scotland in 1935. They were used mainly for the Haifa-Kantara express passenger service during the Mandate period


Locomotive of Israel railways
Electric diesel locomotive type 0-6-6-0, the largest in use in Israel in the 70's:

The 150th anniversary of the railway Leipzig-Dresden, issued by German Democratic Republic (East Germany) on April 4, 1989:

Georg Friedrich List (1789 – 1846), German-American economist, the leading promoter of railways in Germany:

Train station in Leipzig for trains from Dresden, 1839:

Train station in Dresden for trains from Leipzig, 1839:

Arrived via Postcrossing

I have often thought about collecting US RPO stamps. Just never got around to it and now its too late.

Jack Kelley

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH it's never too late!!!

Railway system in the German Democratic Republic, issued by GDR on September 24, 1985:

Johann-Andreas Schubert and "Saxonia" train
Johann-Andreas Schubert (1808 – 1870) was a German general engineer (Universalingenieur), designer and university lecturer. On 8 April 1839, at the opening of the first German long-distance railway between Leipzig and Dresden, Schubert drove the Saxonia, the first effective, working, steam locomotive in Germany, which he had designed. In 1845, Scubert designed the The Göltzsch Viaduct in Germany, the largest brick-built bridge in the world.

In 1933 the Middle Congo issued a long set of 33 pictorial definitives using 3 different designs. The 9 lowest value stamps from this set depict a train passing over the railway viaduct at Mindouli, near Brazzaville. Here is the 4 centimes value (Sc #67) of the set.

On March 21, 1964 Egypt (U.A.R.) issued this 10 milliemes stamp (Sc #621) to commemorate the Asian Railways Conference held in Cairo.

Here is the high value 25c stamp (Sc #306) from Ceylon's October 10, 1949 set of three commemorating the 75th anniversary of the UPU.

Here are two embossed letter seals from Germany showing 1870's era locomotives.

The first one is from the management offices of Crefeld Railway Company, A.G./joint-stock company. This was a private rail line of 61 km, according to Erler and Juenke Catalog of the Adhesive Revenue Stamps of Germany, vol. XVII.

The second one is of the Heinrich Kutzner Construction Company, of Charlottenburg, Berlin. I can find no information on this business.

On July 23, 1959 Egypt (UAR) issued a set of six, 10 milliemes stamps to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Revolution of July, 23, 1952. All of these stamps are inscribed "transportation and communication". One of them (Sc #467) shows a diesel locomotive.

Here are two 1898 freight, or seat reservation revenue stamps of the Filderbahn Railway Company of Stuttgart, Germany. This was a private, short-line operation with two lines totaling 92.4 kilometers of track.