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

Ships
sailboats

paddlewheeler steam boats

screw-driven steam ships

steam turbine oil burning ships

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.

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.

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.

Aircraft
early flight

early and turbo props

jets