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U.S. transportation on stamps have been a recurring theme throughout U.S. postage stamp history.

Horses

Post horse & rider 1869 issue

Pony express 1940 issue

Pony express 1960 issue

Ratification messengers 1938 issue

Coronado's expedition 1940 issue

Rough Riders 1948 issue

Nevada centennial 1959 issue

Wagons

Red River cart 1949 issue

Conestoga wagon 1947 issue

Buggy 1968 issue

Stage coach 1958 issue

Transmississippi wagon 1947 issue

Wagon train guard 1968 issue

Stage coach 1958 issue

Automobiles

Electric automobile 1901 issue

A.A.A. 50th anniversary 1952 issue

Model-A Ford 1970 issue

special delivery truck 1925 issue

special delivery motor cycle 1944 issue

special delivery bicycle 1902 issue

Trains

Locomotive engine 1869 issue

Empire State express 1901 issue

Railroad engineers 1950 issue

B&O Railroad 1952 issue

Parcel post mail train 1913 issue

Railroad Post Office clerk 1913 issue

Railroad bridge at Niagara 1948 issue

Ships

sailboats

Mayflower 1920 issue

U.S.S. Constitution 1947 issue

paddlewheeler steam boats

Hudson-Fulton, s.b. Clermont 1901 issue

Steam ship Adriatic 1869 issue

screw-driven steam ships

Fast Lake, s.s. City of Alpena 1901 issue

Fast Ocean, s.s. St. Paul 1901 issue

steam turbine oil burning ships

U.S. Merchant Marine 1946 issue

Naval Review "U.S.S. Forrestal" 1957 issue

Bridges and locks

The Panama Canal is represented by the Pedro Miguel Locks in the 2-cent Panama-Pacific Exposition issue. An estimated 500 million of these stamps were printed and issued to the public in a first release in 1913 with perforations 12, and a second in 1914 in perforations 10.

r.r. Bridge at Niagara 1869 issue

Canal at Sault de St. Marie 1940 issue

Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal 1960 issue

The canalization of the Ohio River was commemorated with a 2-cent stamp on October 19, 1929. The project's slogan, "Nine feet, Pittsburgh to Cairo," indicated the immensity of the work. The stamp vignette featues Lock number 5 and dam on the Monongahela River.

The Erie Canal was commemorated with a 5-cent stamp 150th anniversary of the ground breaking on July 4, 1967. The Erie Canal was the engineering marvel of its day providing low-cost transportation that opened the Midwest to commerce and settlers and made New York City a great port. The canal was forty feet wide, four feet deep, and stretched 363 miles from the Hudson River, just north of Troy, westward to Buffalo. Eighty-three locks lifted boats 568 feet, the difference in altitude between the Hudson and Lake Erie.

Ohio River Canal Lock #5 1929 issue

Erie Canal 1967 issue

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was featured on a 25-cent airmail stamp on July 30, 1947. A Boeing B377 Stratocruiser was pictured in flight over the bridge with the city skyline in the background.

The Buffalo, New York to Fort Erie, Canada bridge, the "Peace Bridge" was commemorated on a 13-cent stamp in 1977.

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge 1947 issue

Peace Bridge at Buffalo 1977 issue

Aircraft

early flight

Wright flyer 1928 issue

Monoplane 1928 1928 issue

Graf Zeppelin 1930 issue

early and turbo props

commercial aircraft 1941 issue

commercial aviation 1976 issue

25-cent airmail 1940s issue

jets

commercial aircraft 1953 issue

Jet airliner over Capitol 1962 issue

Jet aircraft issue

Space

Project Mercury 1962 issue

Robert H. Goddard 1963 issue

First man on the moon 1969 issue

Space walk 1968 issue

Robert H. Goddard 1975 issue