Monthly Fav. Surprise RR * June '24

 I've been waiting to get the last June's card of this RR and it finally got here. It was so worth to wait for it.

 

Photo: Wallis - C. Moirenc 2004

 

 Life got in the way and Juliette only was able to send this card last month. I was saw happy to see it in my mailbox. It was one of the many french card on my favorites wall and I like it so much.

Photo: Matti Karjanoja

Aerial view of Senate Square in Helsinki, sent by Flora.

The Senate Square and its surroundings form a unique and cohesive example of Neoclassical architecture. The square is dominated by four buildings designed by Carl Ludvig Engel (1778-1840): Helsinki Cathedral, the Government Palace, the main building of the University of Helsinki and the National Library of Finland. A statue of Alexander II (1894) stands in the middle of the Senate Square.
Helsinki Cathedral is arguably Finland's most famous and photographed building. The oldest stone building in Helsinki is the Sederholm House located on the southeast corner of the square. Today the building hosts the Helsinki City Museum. The Esplanade park and the Market Square are just a block away. - in: https://www.myhelsinki.fi

Photo: 2016 Anthony L. Iezzi

Nan always sends me great cards and I truly like this one. I really like old steam locomotives. This one, locomotive nº 89, is one of the Strasburg Rail Road locomotives. 

Strasburg Rail Road™ is America’s oldest operating railroad with a charter dating back to June 9, 1832. First used for passenger and freight transportation, the short line limped along for more than a century until in 1958, on the verge of abandonment, the railroad was salvaged and given new life as a tourist railroad.
Locomotive No. 89 ran on the Canadian National Railway for most of her life before being sold to the Green Mountain Railroad in New Hampshire. After just a few years on the Green Mountain RR, the locomotive was sold to the Strasburg Rail Road in late Spring 1972. Today, No. 89 is still an active locomotive at Strasburg and is often the locomotive of choice to pull smaller train consists. - in: https://www.strasburgrailroad.com

Even though Tanya is from Belarus, I believe that most of the cards she has already sent me, are from Russia. This a peak of the Bombai mountains.