Railroadiana Items In Your Collection

Thank you very much for the helpful information and advice. I'll start looking for more of those titles.

Here's another momento of the steam era. It is an instruction book for the operation and maintenance of Elesco locomotive feed water heaters published by The Superheater Company in 1926:

Bob

I have a number of NYC and Rock Island timetables and my wife bought me a complete railroad crossing for our anniversary a few years ago.  Putting that up in our new house will be this summers project.

I have a few items......

EMD manuals, including a SDL39 manual

Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee motor car (track speeder) instruction

Soo Line Swichstand (which I will be trading for a Milwaukee road one)

2 light color signal off the Milwaukee Road (Burlington Wisconsin)

Wabco AA2 Airhorn and a leslily 125 single chime horn

Plus alot of odds and ends

Here are a few Fairbanks-Morse items.

First up is one for the all the three rail O gauge folks. This is the Enginemen's Manual for the H24-66 Train Master and its slightly smaller brother, the H16-66:

Enginemen's Manual for the H12-44:

Trouble Shooters Manual for the "Erie Built" units:

Bob

A few more items from my collection.

A switch stand of unknown origin.

CRR of NJ brass fire extinguisher.

Great Northern marker lamp.

Lehigh Valley whistle sign.

1 track sign.

Miscellaneous stuff.

Headlight from Erie Lackawanna MU.

Hi, Joe.

Thanks for sharing more images. Would you happen to know from what locomotive your headlight is?

Bob  

Yes, the headlight came off of an Erie Lackawanna MU.

Joe, an absolutley wonderful collection!!! T hanks to everyone for sharing thier photos.

Tonight we have some NYCTA subway memorabilia.

First, a number plate from St. Louis Car Company built R-22 7729:

Next, a station sign from Kingsbridge Road on the IND Concourse Line:

Lastly, a station sign from Grand Central on the IRT:

Bob

Here's an item which I thought was appropriate given that Grand Central Terminal's Centennial celebration has begun. What we have here is artwork commisioned to commemorate the delivery of New York Central's fleet of ACMU cars. Trains consisting of the new equipment are shown exiting and entering the Park Avenue Tunnel at 96th Street. The construction of GCT was part of a larger project of which the electrification of this segment of the railroad was a key component. Look closely and you can see the New York Central reaching for the sky many blocks down Park Avenue...no Pan Am Building to ruin this view.

Bob

Not that I went out of my way to acquire any, but I did somehow wind up with a wooden clothes hanger stamped "NYCentral"-"Sleeping Car Service".

Needless to say, it's the only hanger in the house that isn't used to hold any clothing

---PCJ

My interest has been public timetables, at least since 1956, when I started collecting them. Here's a few:

One of my favorites.

Dave

I have never bought any railroadiana but have been given a number of items. My biggy is my great grandfathers lantern from is career as a B&O engineer. I also have a number of BLE items like badges and magazines.  My uncle Jimmy was the PR/advertising head at C&O in Huntington WV and gave me some EMD loco posters from late 60's -70's. 

PS.....almost all of my great grandmothers B&O passes she had in the 40 years he worked on the railroad!

A lot of paper...A ticket from the Civil War Era Western and Atlantic, over a hundred pieces of CNS&M paper, IT collection of shop buttons, envelopes, timetables calendars also TM, CRT streetcar tickets, railroad advertising postcards, some signed lithographs..a lot of paper items, original station calendar wall art from the PRR, etc, etc. I am donating this stuff to the IRM Strayhorn Library in my will to sell or keep. Tons of books, some rare, some not. Represents about a three decade long hobby of collecting.

Probably the nearest and dearest thing to me was one I created, in that I was visiting IRM and took a pretty good picture of Henry Cordell, the Chief Engineer for the CNS&M standing alongside one of his restored charges, an interurban signed for my hometown, talking to a former motorman. One can only imagine what they were reminiscing about..

David,

That gauge is awesome.

I figured I would try to get this thread started again. Here's an EMD switcher headlight I restored.

I have a few items.. My favorites are railroad signs from the defunct Bethlehem Steel. I have warning signs from their narrow gauge line and transfer cars.. Railroadannia is neat because it is not mass produced and can be unique. I have a bunch of 40,s and 50,s timestables in the store also..