All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains

All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains
The Super Chief stamp, part of the five-stamp commemorative set. Santa Fe locomotive #6 (an EMD E1 unit) is seen painted in the Super Chief's distinctive Warbonnet livery.
Type	Commemorative stamp
Country of issue	United States
Country of production	United States
Location of production	United States Postal Service
Date of issue	August 1999 (1999-08)
Designer	Ted Rose
Printer	United States Postal Service
Commemorates	American railroad design and heritage
Depicts	Named passenger trains of the 1930s and 1940s
Notability	Part of a United States Postal Service tribute to 20th-century trains
Face value	33¢

In August 1999, the United States Postal Service issued a set of 33¢ postage stamps entitled All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains to "pay tribute to American industry and design, and specifically to the heritage of our railroads." Artist Ted Rose^[1] created five watercolor images depicting the following celebrated American named passenger trains from the 1930s and 1940s:

• the Congressional of the Pennsylvania Railroad;
• the Daylight of the Southern Pacific Railroad;
• the Hiawatha of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad;
• the Super Chief of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway; and
• the 20th Century Limited of the New York Central Railroad.

Descriptive text regarding each of the trains was listed on the gummed side of each stamp.^[2][3]

At the same time, the USPS offered for sale a booklet of "20 U.S. Postal Service Ready-To-Mail Stamped Postal Cards" which contained four sets of the five paintings.

• All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains 1999 USPS Stamp Program

• Anthony J. Bianculli. Railroad History on American Postage Stamps. Astragal Press, 2004. 1931626200