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TRAINS on POSTAL STATIONERY PERU

	View PCs - 1899 - embossed profile with year and denomination in various colors view with Verrugas Bridge TOP PC - UN CENTAVO violet - KD 2nd PC - DOS CENTAVOS orange - KD 3rd PC - TRES CENTAVOS green - TG 4th PC - CUATRO CENTAVOS brown - KD VERRUGAS BRIDGE - Wonderful link - Scribner's article about Oroya Railroad in Peru, "A Railroad In the Clouds", August, 1877 (source of top image at left.) Designed by L L Buck, 1837-1909. He designed and directed construction of the first Verrugas Viaduct. Built in the high Andes for the Lima and Oroya Railroad in Peru, it was the highest bridge in the world when completed in 1873. (From http://www.teichman-home.org/buck/buck_bio.html) Constructed by Charles Hazleburst Latrobe, civil engineer, born in Baltimore, 25 December, 1833, was educated at the College of St. Mary in that city. He entered the service of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company, and was also in the Confederate service. After the civil war he returned to Baltimore and adopted bridge-building as his specialty. His most remarkable works of this description, however, were in Peru, about a dozen in all; among them the Arequipa viaduct, which was 1,300 feet long and 65 feet high, and the Agua de Verrugas bridge, 575 feet long and 263 feet high. This structure was built across one of the deepest gorges in the Andes, and was, when erected, the loftiest structure of its kind in the world. It was framed in the United States, taken apart, and shipped to Peru, where it was erected in ninety days. (From http://www.famousamericans.net/benjaminhenrylatrobe/, quoting Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. 6 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889)
	PC CUATRO CENTAVOS dated 1899 shows 'Tunel - F.C.P.' with fourwheel trolley (handcar?) on the single track above a lower track, climbing the Andes KD
	PC DOS CENTAVOS dated 1899 shows 'Casapalca - Peru' with railway line curving into the town, with (probably) the station KD
	TOP: PC - 1899 - 1c - embossed profile with year and denomination in violet ink view with station at Miraflores TG BOTTOM: PC - 1899 - 3c - embossed profile with year and denomination in green ink view with station at Miraflores KD MIRAFLORES Miraflores is a popular Spanish name (meaning "view of flowers", or something like that), and an Internet search will reveal that there are towns, hotels, resorts, restaurants, etc. with that name all over the world. The city in Peru has its own web site HERE. Located just south of Lima on the coast (it's a suburb of Lima today), it had a 1990 population of about 114,000.
	PC - 1899 - UN CENTAVO embossed profile with year and denomination in violet ink view showing 'Calle de Mercaderes - Lima' with tram (streetcar) tracks KD
	PCs dated 1900 combining the Bridge & station views above with 'stamp' one side and views the other UN CENTAVO with view green, indicium pale blue DOS CENTAVOS with view brown, indicium dark blue KD
	PC - 1900 - DOS CENTAVOS - same view as the two above, but different stamp dated 1897 KD

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