All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains

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: 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.

One of five *All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains* commemorative stamps issued by the USPS. Here, Santa Fe locomotive #6 (an EMD E1 unit) is seen painted in the *Super Chief's* distinctive *Warbonnet* livery.