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$15 USD SaleSALE Railway Passenger Travel, 1825-1880, 1962 reprint of 1888 Scribner’s
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
This title of this booklet, “Railway Passenger Travel, 1825-1880”, is a perfect description of the contents. It is a fascinating look at both the inconveniences and small luxuries of passenger travel in the early days of railroading. The book was written by Horace Porter and originally published by Scribner’s in 1888, and this is a 1962 reprint by Americana Review in Scotia, NY. It covers topics such as comfort, safety considerations, baggage transfer, dining and sleeping cars, and immigrant ...
$82 USD SaleSALE Salt Lake Route Railroad Booklet, Die-cut Orange Shape
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
This is a 40-page trade advertisement for the Salt Lake Route, a Short Line railroad between Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and the Western Sea. This route is now part of the Union Pacific Corporation. Each double-page spread has a black-and-white photo image on the right and a description printed in orange of this tourist attraction or town on the left. Some of the sights include: San Bernardino, Pomona, Pasadena, Long Beach and several pages on Riverside and Los Angeles. The last page has a map ...
$10 USDMerrill Railroad and Steamship Ticket Agency Trade Card
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
This interesting Victorian-era chromolithograph card shows a young couple waiting in the snow tor the oncoming steam engine train, while Mother waves goodbye in the background. The back of the card is blank. This is a trade card for H. C. Merrill, Railroad and Steamship Ticket Agency (no location given). The card measures 4-1/4 by 2-7/8 inches and is in good condition. It had been pasted in an album, and there is glue residue and minor paper loss on the back. This item will be packaged in a ...
$8 USDSanta Fe Railroad Magazine Ad Featuring Indian Guides, 1954
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
This is a full-page, full-color advertisement for the Santa Fe Railroad from the October 9, 1954, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The illustration is of three Pueblo Indians, identified as Blue Wing, War Bow and Sunrise, dressed in red shirts and headbands, and loaded with turquoise and silver jewelry and concha belts. These Native Americans traveled as guides to passengers on the Super Chief and El Capitan trains across New Mexico. The ad is in very good condition, with only small creases ...
$8 USDTwo Quebec Tourist Trolley Car Postcards, 1930s, 1940s
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
These two postcards show the Quebec trolley touring car, loaded with tourists. Although the cars look exactly the same, the scenes are separated by at least 20 years. The older card has two conductors and two engineers stationed at the front, and all the passengers are women. The hats on the ladies would date to probably the early 1930s. This card has not been mailed and is in very good condition. The second card is postmarked 1945. There are two automobiles in the foreground and a movie theatre ...
$26 USDOld Colony Street Railway Uniform Button and Hat-pin, Boston
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
These two items are memorabilia of the Old Colony Street Railway System, which was a trolley system operating in the Boston Massachusetts area at the turn of the last century. The uniform button is gilt metal, stamped “Old Colony St. Ry. Co.” on the front, and Scovill Mfg. Co. on the back. It measures about 5/8 inch in diameter. The second item is a hat-pin with a gilt finish, stamped “Old Colony”. The hatpin is 6 inches in length. It may have been made from another metal button, as the shank is ...
$38 USDRailroad Uniform Buttons - Group of Fourteen Different Companies
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
These fourteen buttons are all from different railroad employee uniforms. All the buttons are metal in shades of gold or silver. I have included a nickel to indicate the size of these fourteen buttons, which range from 5/8 inch to about 7/8 inch in diameter. They are in good undented condition, although the finish on a few is showing its age. They all have round metal shanks except one, as you can see from the photo of the back. These buttons will be protectively packaged and shipped in a box by ...
$24 USDSouthern Pacific Railway Lines – 1927 Timetables and US Map of Routes
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
This pamphlet lists the timetables for the Shasta Route of the Southern Pacific Railway, which ran from Seattle to Los Angeles. Also listed are timetables for local Oregon service. The unfolded cover is a map of the US with the Southern Pacific routes and connections country-wide. The brochure is dated May, 1927. The brochure has eight pages, consisting of two folded sheets measuring 15-3/4 by 9 inches, folded in the middle and stapled, then folded again down the center. It is lightly age ...
$18 USDCelluloid Bookmark, Boyles College, Union Pacific Railroad
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
This is a lovely bookmark, unfortunately broken at the top. However, as a railroad or academic souvenir, it still serves the purpose. The bookmark reads ”Compliments of Boyles College, Omaha, Neb. – Council Bluffs, IA. Authorized Training School Union Pacific and Illinois Central Railroads”. The top of the bookmark, which has been split off, is a lithograph of two red and pink roses. This bookmark was manufactured by Gruver Manufacturing Company in Chicago. The bookmark measures 5-1/2 inches in ...
$10 USD SaleSALE “Where Do You Work-a John?” Comical Railroad Song with Extra Verses, 1926
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
This sheet music song is called, “Where Do You Work-a John?”. It tells the tale of an Italian immigrant who works for the Delaware Lackawanna Railroad, and is sung in dialect. This edition has six additional verses about other Italian immigrant occupations. The song was written by Mortimer Weinberg, Charley Marks and Harry Warren, and was copyrighted by Shapiro, Bernstein in 1926. The cover features a colorful illustration in red and green by Politzer. The sheet music measures 9 by 12 inches. ...
$10 USD SaleSALE Phillips Exeter Academy, 1895 Debate on Railroads
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
This is the program for a debate between two literary societies of Phillips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, New Hampshire. The competing teams were the Literary Societies of G. L Soule and the Golden Branch. The debate was held in the Academy Chapel on March 13, 1895. The question under debate at this program is: "Resolved, That the railroads of the United States should be under the direct control of the government". Three students on each team debated the negative and affirmative sides of the issue. ...
$18 USDBaltimore and Ohio Railroad Transportation Museum Brochure, 1950s
Collectibles:Transportation:Railroadiana
This brochure was published by the Baltimore and Ohio Transportation museum, in Baltimore, Maryland. It bills itself as the “Largest Historic Rail Exhibit in the World”. There are photos of some of the exhibits, including rail cars and locomotives from the early 1800s up to 1945, with descriptions and statistics. The brochure is printed on off-white paper with sepia photos, contains 32 pages and measures 8 by 8-3/4 inches. The booklet is in good condition, with a fold down the right side and ...| Items 1 - 12 of 12 | Page 1 of 1 |
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