Postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago Postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago lies northeast of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Trinidad and Tobago was a Spanish colony from the times of Christopher Columbus to 1802, when it was ceded to Britain. The country obtained independence in 1962. The first stamps of Trinidad were the famous Lady McLeod, a private local post, stamps of 1847. The first definitives for Trinidad were issued in 1851. Tobago used stamps of Trinidad from 1860. Stamps
2-8-6 the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad; #25 "Alpine", #26 "Rico", #27 "Roaring Fork" and #28 "Denver". They were narrow gauge locomotives of gauge. Some were later sold to the Burlington and Northwestern Railway, a narrow gauge subsidiary of the CB&Q operating in Iowa. 2-8-6 In the Whyte notation for describing steam locomotive wheel arrangement, a 2-8-6 is a locomotive with a two-wheel leading truck, eight driving wheels, and a six-wheel trailing truck. All 2-8-6 locomotives constructed have been 2-8-6T tank locomotives of the Mason Bogie pattern. Other equivalent classifications are: UIC classification: 1D3 (also known as German classification and