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RAILROADS
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The stamps on this page
were issued by railroads to publicize their routes to the West.
Most people who traveled any distance to the fair went by rail,
so it was just a question of which route they took. From the
East Coast it would have taken a week.
Most of these were part of sets, printed as sheetlets like the one for
the SOO LINE, but absent examples, I have chosen to show just the
Stamps that actually mention the PPIE.
Click on any image below to open an enlarged version in a
separate
tab.
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Burlington Route
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Great Northern Railway
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Northern Pacific Ry.
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Northern Pacific
Route of the Great Big Baked Potato (!)
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Santa Fe
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Santa Fe
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SOO LINE
Text on three stamps refers to
Panama-California (in San Deigo),
Panama-Pacific (in San Francisco),
and The Expositions
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Union Pacific System -
Meet me at Old Faithful Inn
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Union Pacific System -
Meet me at Old Faithful Inn
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Union Pacific System -
Meet me at Old Faithful Inn
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Union Pacific System -
Meet me at Old Faithful Inn
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Union Pacific System -
Meet me at Old Faithful Inn
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Union Pacific System -
Meet me at Old Faithful Inn
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Old Faithful Inn was both a hotel at Yellowstone National Park
AND a restaurant in the Union Pacific exhibit at the PPIE.
The six stamps show the
Union Pacific's PPIE exhibit, which depicted
Yellowstone.
CLICK HERE
for an image of the six stamps above joined together.
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