This set of six mint stamps (including high-face value stamps) was issued by Grenada on Oct. 4, 1982, to commemorate famous locomotives and railways. The following are attractively depicted on this issue: Orient Express, Trans-Siberian Express, Fleche D'or, Flying Scotsman, German Federal Railways, and German National Railways. The retail value for this set is $6.95 (Scott 2015 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue). Scott Cat.# 1120-1125. This item is currently one of our special offers; our list price of $4.95 has been reduced by 35% to $3.20.

Russia issued this attractively engraved sheet of eight mint stamps on June 15, 1985, to commemorate the Soviet railways rolling stock. The stamp designs continue into the sheet selvage. The featured rolling stock includes the WL-80-R electric locomotive (green), tanker car (blue), refrigerator car (blue), sleeper car (brown), tipper car (brown), box car (brown), shunting diesel locomotive (blue), and mail car (green).

The 75th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad was commemorated by this postage stamp. Issued on May 10, 1944. The design of this mint stamp features the Golden Spike ceremony and is based on a mural by John McQuarrie located at the Union Pacific Station in Salt lake City, Utah. Scott Cat.# 922

This stamp was issued by the United States on April 29, 1950, to pay tribute to America's railroad engineers. The design features a portrait of Casey Jones flanked by steam and diesel locomotives. Casey was immortalized by a ballad about a wreck between his Cannonball Express train and the rear of a freight train near Vaughn MI on April 30, 2025 (he was killed in the wreck). Scott Cat.# 993

This mint regular issue coil stamp, featuring a steam locomotive from the 1870s, was issued by the United States on Mar. 6, 1987. Scott Cat.# 2226a

Issued by the United States Postal Service on Mar. 25, 1983, this mint regular issue coil stamp features a railroad handcar from the 1880s. Scott Cat.# 1898

A railroad caboose, circa 1890s, is featured on this mint regular issue coil stamp. Issued by the United States Postal Service on Feb. 3, 1984, this 11c stamp was intended to pay the then current bulk mailing postage rate (discounted rate for large volume mailers). Scott Cat.# 1905

Featuring an 1870s railroad coal car, this 13.2c mint regular issue stamp from the United States was intended to pay the 1988 bulk mail rate (third-class bulk mail items pre-sorted to five digit ZIP codes). This stamp was first issued on July 19, 1988. Scott Cat.# 2259

The United States Postal Service issued this mint regular issue coil stamp, featuring a railroad mail car from the 1920s, on Aug. 16, 1988. The postage rate paid by this 21c stamp was the single-piece rate for pre-sorted first class mail to either the three- or five-digit ZIP code. Scott Cat.# 2265

With this booklet pane of five mint stamps, the United States Postal Service paid tribute to the early steam locomotives that drove the railroad revolution in America. Issued on Sept. 21, 1987, this stamp set depicts the following locomotives: the Stourbridge Lion (1829), the Best Friend of Charleston (1830), the John Bull (1831), the Brother Jonathan (1832), and the Gowan and Marx (1839). Please click on the image or "Details" for additional information. Scott Cat.# 2366a

A cog railway locomotive from the 1870s is featured on this mint regular issue coil stamp issued by the United States Postal Service on June 9, 1995. Scott Cat.# 2463

This attractively-designed set of five cancelled stamps from Niger (issued in 1980) depict the following locomotives: Shimbashi-Yokohama locomotive, an early American-type locomotive, a German Reichsbahn series 61, a prussian Staatsbahn P2, and an L'Aigle locomotive. This cancelled set of 5 stamps has a $2.45 retail value (Scott 2007 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, Vol. 4)