Planes, Trains and a Bridge along with a Single Celtic Woman

BLOG # 1584 --- Day 849 of the Pandemic --- Day 134 of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine 

                                                                      Glory to Ukraine

Hey postcard people. I'm back with a few postcards once again. I've got Planes , Trains, and other stuff. It would have been nice had I wrote Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but not this time. That was a great , funny movie though, wasn't it ? 

Let's start with an aircraft card. It's an Emirates Airbus A300/600. It's registered as A6-EKF and was delivered new to Emirates in June 1991. It was in service with Emirates until May 2001 , after which in was with Lufthansa, Mahan Air, and Iran Air Tour.  It is currently 31.2 years old and still operating. 

567 Airbus A300s were built over 36 years. Just 11 are still in passenger service although about 160 still see service as cargo aircraft. I've never flown in an A300 and it's not looking like I ever will now. Such is life. 

Jean Pierre used a Round stamp from 2021. It celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Sports in the U.A.E.

Today's second card is from Ireland. It's another of the series of Celtic Woman postcards that I have been showing every now and then. This one shows Chloe Agnew on the grounds of Kylemore Abbey in County Galway. Chloe and the other members of Celtic Woman performed a concert on the Abbey grounds in March of 2015. Chloe gave a stunning rendition of " Angel's Song " .

The Abbey was built in the late 1800s and the Benedictine Nuns have been in residence there since 1920. 

 

This card has a nice selection of stamps. I'll go from left to right - from 2011, it celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Amnesty International. Next , from 2010 is 1 of 4 in a minisheet showing Birds of Prey. Then, from 2011 a stamp celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Ireland. The last stamp on the right was issued in 2011 and commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of former President of Ireland Cearbhall O Dalaigh.

The Silver Pilot is up next. The Silver Pilot was a streamlined stainless steel locomotive which pulled many of the Zephyr passenger trains between the 1930s and 1960s. This special locomotive , 9911A, was produced exclusively for the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1940 and 1941. 

Virginia used three stamps on her card. The left stamp , from 2021 , shows a Brush Rabbit. The middle stamp, also from 2012, contains a Mystery Message or puzzle to decipher. The stamp on the right is 1 of 3 issued in 2019 to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad.

  

Next up is a card showing the Raiffeisenbrucke, a bridge spanning the Rhine River between Neuwied and Weissenthurm in Germany. This suspension cable bridge was opened in September 1978 and its longest span is 238 meters. 

Melanie used a Flower definitive along with a stamp from this year showing the German Europa issue of the Myths and Stories stamp.

Here's another Emirates airplane. This time it's a Boeing 777, A6-EMN shown at Dubai in the year 2000. This aircraft is 22.6 years old but has been in storage 5 times over a 3 year period. It was delivered to Emirates in December 1999. Then from 2017 on it was in service with Apollo Aviation, FlyGlobal, and Carlyle Aviation. It is currently stored at Teruel Airport in Span.

Jean Pierre used a 2020 stamp that Commemorated the 75th Anniversary of the Arab League.

By the way , did you ever wonder where all the planes went during the early days of the pandemic ? Well here's a few pictures that might answer it . They may not have been stacked, but they were surely parked in line-ups.