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Saturday/ a locomotive 🚂

Yesterday’s envelope with my stamps had this 1987 stamp on the outside.

In 1839, a big locomotive was ordered by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, with the specification that the engine burn anthracite coal in a horizontal boiler. The result was the Gowan & Marx, one of the most famous locomotives ever built. Extraordinary tractive power was generated by the 42-inch driving wheels.

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