Post Your Coins And Medals Featuring Railroads And Trains

2003 India 2 rupees - not a pretty coin, but railroad related.

Nice run, triggersmob!

2023 UK £2 coin commemorating the centenary of the 'Flying Scotsman' steam locomotive:

The 'Flying Scotsman' was built in 1923 by the LNER (London & North-Eastern Railway) to haul their fast trains from London Kings Cross Station to Scotland. It was the first steam locomotive in the world that was accurately recorded as reaching a speed of 100 mph (The Great Western Railway's 'City of Truro' may have reached this speed earlier, but the recording eqiupment available at the time was not very accurate). After withdrawal in the 1960s, the locomotive was purchased privately and went on extensive tours of the USA and Australia. After a multi-million pound restoration in recent years, it now regularly hauls special trains over Britain's rail network.

Nice example, NumisRob.

Nice coin, NumisRob.

Medallion showing the Armistice railroad car, in which the Armistice that ended WW1 was signed in a clearing in a forest near the French city of Compiegne, on November 11, 1918. The former Chemin de Fer du Nord dining car became the centrepiece of a large war memorial in the 1920s. When Hitler defeated the French in 1940 he forced the French to sign their document of surrender in the same railroad car, and it was later taken to Germany and the memorial at Compiegne was destroyed. At some time during WW2 the Armistice car was either accidentally or deliberately damaged by fire (some say Hitler ordered its destruction as it was a symbol of Germany's defeat in 1918), but the frame and bogies survived and it was converted into a goods wagon. Unfortunately it was scrapped in the 1970s in East Germany before its true origin was discovered. After 1945 the monument at Compiegne was restored and an identical railroad dining car from the same 'batch' as the original was 'mocked up' to look like the Armistice car, with some of the original fixtures and fittings that had been removed before the car was taken to Germany. It is now a major tourist attraction and a touching memorial to the First World War.

Very cool, NumisRob!

1988 Bermuda $1 showing the Bermuda Railway:

The Bermuda Railway was opened in 1931 and was 14 miles long. It was standard-gauge amd operated by gasoline-powered railcars. Sadly it could not compete with the arrival of private cars and mopeds after World War II and closed in 1947, although its trackbed has been preserved as a public footpath.