Trains On Stamps

here's a cute one from Togo

Here are images of the two stamps from a set designed by Auguste Böcskör, vignettes engraved by Wolfgang Seidel, photogravure for the frames and lettering, and issued by Austria on July 6, 1984.

- nethryk

Centenary of the Arlberg Line: Electric locomotive with passenger unit & passenger cars leaving tunnel & crossing Schanatobel Bridge, Scott No. 1289.


75th anniversary of the Tauern Line: Electric locomotive with passenger unit & passenger cars Series 4010 on Falkenstein Bridge, Scott No. 1290.

Snazzy, even if they are electrics ;-)

Italy

Thanks for the Newfie Bullet image. Rode on it a couple of times and even passed along a joke about it here some time back.

Cheers

Here is a recent one from Austria showing a horse drawn train.

I presume that the barrels contained beer since one of the the stops on the route was Budweis.

I wonder what THAT one is hauling... barrels? Wheels of cheese???

Nells

I think there was beer in those barrels.

(hic...)

I think my daughter would go coo-coo over those Thomas the tank engine stamps! I really love this thread.

On the Mali stamp with a 2-2-0 Baldwin stated to be the upper drawing, what is shown is a 4-4-0 'American' design wood burning type locomotive

The below photo is the 'Old Ironsides' 2-2-0 made by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1832.

http://www.fi.edu/learn/case-files/...win/old.html

What possibly happened with the stamp illustration is the definition of wheel arrangement. In North America the arrangement is stated as leading wheels-driving wheels-trailing wheels but in Europe it is known mostly by how many axles instead of wheels.

An actual Baldwin-manufactured 4-4-0 in Finland in 1872.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwi...motive_Works

I previously posted these on the engravers thread but I
think they'll fit in here too.