We won’t try to type the Polish-language caption for this card because our keyboard can’t handle it.  The card has four different, massive stamps, two of which are trains.  There are four postmarks.  Address label affixed.  Grade: 3

Mailed in 2011, two large and different stamps and full Taipei postmark.  Grade: 1

Unused card of Wild Cat Point, issued by the Rock Island Lines “Route of the Rockets.”  Heavily stained on the reverse.  Grade: 4

Unused Pictorial Post Card 4101-29 issued by the Union Pacific (Railroad) System, the “direct route to Grand Teton National Park and to Jackson Hole.”  Grade: 2

Somehow, four of these are available, made in Russia.  One was mailed from Russia in 2011 with three different stamps, two overlapping postmarks, and address label affixed (Grade: 3, $2).  Another has the same photo but is now a PostalShop internet card and was printed in 2013.  However it was mailed from the U.K. with an 88p stamp and blue Airmail label (Grade: 4, $1).  The third is the same card as the second one but was mailed from Russia in 2013 with four stamps and two large postmarks (Grade: 2, $3).  Finally:  PostalShop, mailed from Russia in 2011 (we think but aren’t certain) with five stamps and two large postmarks (Grade: 1, $3).  Spoiled for choice!

Collectors of railroad postcards shouldn’t let this one go.  Unused card whose captions on front and reverse explain everything.  Grade: 1

This was (is) a lottery card, with pre-printed postage, but the sender’s additional stamp unaccountably covers up some of the entry number.  With many other rubber-stamped (and official-looking) marks on the back, this is a nice if busy card measuring 4″ x 7-1/4″, mailed in 2011 with full postmark.  Grade: 2

Mailed in 1988 with three different stamps and readable San Francisco postmark.  Aging.  Grade: 3

Mailed in 1989 with stamp and faint postmark.  Each of the five views is identified in the caption on the reverse, including Darling Harbour and Centrepoint Tower.  Grade: 1

Unused 3-7/8″ x 9-1/2″ card.  Riding this train is really an eye-opening experience.  Grade: 1

This busy card was mailed in 2011 with two different stamps and mostly illegible postmark.  It has a small sticker of a woman in a kimono on the reverse, and the card itself is printed with a map of the train’s route.  Nozomi is the name of the train service.  Maximum operating speed is 285 km/h.  Only because of the sticker, Grade: 3

G.N. Morhig card No. 240.  Grade: 4

From 2012, a card mailed with one stamp, full postmark, and light blue trilingual airmail sticker affixed.  Grade: 1

G.N. Morhig colour card No. C.-464.  As with all of these in this Sudan series, written notation on the reverse.  Grade: 4

Issued by Australia Post, with pre-printed postage for worldwide delivery, this card was mailed in 2011 or 2012.  There is no postmark.  It has one lightly perforated edge, indicating that it had been part of a set.  Grade: 4 (because of lack of postmark)

Mailed with an A$1.60 ski stamp but no postmark.  Because of that, Grade: 4

Let’s assume that what translates as “hotel” is what Americans who remember such things would call a “roundhouse”.  If we’re wrong about this, please let us know!  The card was mailed in 2012, with a coloured postage-meter “stamp”, full postmark, and blue trilingual Air Mail sticker.  Grade: 2

Unused card.  Some creasing.  Grade: 2

The card was produced in 2011 and mailed in 2012 with four different stamps and mostly readable postmark.  There’s also a Priority sticker.  Grade: 1

All right, in very fine print, in English, at the bottom of the card, it says “Kaohsiung train station was established in year 1939”.  In Chinese, there’s much more information.  Mailed in 2012, what we must say is that this card is very busy.  It has two stamps, postmark, a very large blue “Taiwan Image” chop mark, and a bilingual Airmail rubber stamp as well.  Grade:  2