Locomotives

Locomotives stamps capture the machines that reshaped travel and industry, from the steam engines of the early railway age, exemplified by George Stephenson's Rocket and the Stockton and Darlington Railway of 1825, through the diesel and electric power that followed. Railways knitted continents together, moved goods and people at unprecedented speed, and inspired generations of engineers and enthusiasts. As a stamp-collecting theme, locomotives offer striking mechanical imagery and connect naturally with trains, transportation, and industrial history subjects.