Johannesburg - Cape Express

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $4.95
Original Price: $5.95

Stock #:206595
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons
Postmark: 1907 Jul-30
Postmark City: Cutler
Postmark State: OH
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Recipient Address:Mrs. Rose Place
621 Smith St.
Marietta, OH

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Famous Expresses Series 9329
This train, on the Central South African Railway, is one of the links in the late Cecil Rhodes' great scheme of a Cape-to-Cairo Railway. It travels between Cape Town and Johannesburg at an average speed of 35 miles per hour, occasionally attaining 50 miles per hour. The train is of 3ft. 6in. gauge, and includes dining and buffet cars

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