Locomotives on old illustrations by Currier & Ives
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American Steam Locomotive by Brian Solomon
Hardcover - 160 pages (April 1998) Motorbooks International
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The 5¢ scarlet Locomotive and Arms stamp of Peru, Scott 19, shown in Figure 4, is usually cited as the world's first commemorative postage stamp.
Locomotive: world's first stamp to picture a locomotive is New Brunswick's 1¢ value, (Sc. 6).
Locomotive Express Post: U.S. local post, about 1854.
Locust campaign: with Arabic inscription on Trans-Jordan as a semi-postal.
The souvenir sheet issued in 1984 to commemorate the National Philatelic Exhibition in Montréal contained four stamps that featured steam locomotives, and the selvedge depicted a line drawing of a locomotive alongside the logo of the exhibition.
With steam locomotives providing fast and affordable travel, the seaside became a popular tourist destination, and generated its own souvenir-industry: the picture postcard was, and is, an essential staple of this industry.
Railway Post Office - train cars that were the property of railway companies but used by and restricted to U.S. Post Office Department employees. The RPO cars were usually placed directly behind the locomotive.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Catalog, Philatelic
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