What other RRing memorabilia do you collect?

[shawn-118]

I was woundering how many of you collect other RRing memorabilia. Be it post cards, paintings, signs, mugs, hats, old bonds or any other neat items.
I'm starting to collect old bonds from RR co. and paintings to display in the future train room.

[Anonymous]

I collect paintings, post cards, model train kits (unpowered), Lionel Hallmark ornaments, videos, DVD's, books, magazines. Basiclly anything to do with RR's.

[AggroJones]

Posters, signs, and video tapes.

[Anonymous]

I collect slides and videos.

[Anonymous]

I collect articals from train mags old and new, place them in archival plastic, and place them in note books. To date, I have over 1400 articals in 14 notebooks.

[Anonymous]

Mostly books, but I have a growing collection of railroad pins, and some wood from old AT&SF boxcars showing the tongue-and-groove construction, but it has been cut up into smaller pieces, so it's not really "memorabilia" per se. Of course, I also collect the one thing that almost all railfans/model railroaders collect: unorganized scatterings of photographs, in various places[:)].

Trying to organize his photographs,
Daniel

[Anonymous]

anything that strikes my fancy.

[CNJ831]

Locomotives and rolling stock associated with either MR magazine (anniversary cars back to the 1950's and their paper-sided predecessors) or those with the paint scheme for the MR&T layout.

CNJ831

[CNW-400]

I collect almost any small RR items I see that attract my attention, conductors hat badges, old passenger schedules, tools, lanterns, old signs, etc. I mostly collect items formerly belonging to the Chicago & North Western, but I've got things from other roads as well.

Mark

[Jetrock]

Books, mostly, though I do keep my eyes open for assorted railroad memorabilia--postcards and photos, schedules, assorted paper ephemera, and a couple of buttons. I have a giant (6" wide) lapel pin with the logo of the Central California Traction Company, with a matching drink coaster.

I'm currently looking for items to expand my Railroad Museum dress-up costume collection (all we really have to wear is black slacks and a white shirt, but it's more fun to dress like some form of railroad crew!) so I'm definitely on the lookout for all of the above. I have limited space at home (and those lovely limited funds) so I can't afford too much in railroad ephemera but I can't resist a goodd eal when I see it.

[cacole]

RR spikes, both new and old. They make great paperweights.

[joseph2]

Date nails,timetables,Railroad Magazine,switch lists.

[Anonymous]

Anything that catches my eye, as long as the wallet has something to spare.

[METRO]

Since I do commuter modeling, I have TONS of old timetables and maps from various lines around the world, every time a family member or friend goes somewhere where there is a subway or commuter line they usually bring me back a timetable or route map.

Another great thing I do is whenever I go railfaning, I always keep my eye out for a bit of this or that along the lineside, I found an old Pen Central logo (probably fell off a passenger train,) an old CP rulebook that had fallen down a ravine and had been preserved by it's oilskin pouch. and the greatest peice, an old ALCO FA/PA airhorn.

[Big_Boy_4005]

Am I the only one into "heavy metal" here? I have a switch stand.

I have a couple of lanterns. Multiple prints by 3 different railroad artists, Larry Fisher, Angela Trotta Thomas, and John Cartwright. I also have a bunch of hats, a couple of conductor's uniforms, button covers and lapel pins, ticket punches and a couple dozen puzzles and games. There's a set of crossbucks, an old brake hose, glass and ceramic insulators, and a large sign off a Burlington Route Hopper as well as a couple of buckets full of spikes, plates, and other metal junk found along the right of way.

Oh yah, I have a few magazines too.



The blue binders on the shelf near the bottom, are every issue of MR back to 1950.

[sparkingbolt]

I have one N&W switch lock, 3 small posters, and a Climax reproduced catalog. The rest is pretty much model related. Dan

[dknelson]

One thing I have been collecting more of in recent years are track charts and actual track blueprints. The hobby shop located at Rochelle has a nice selection for sale at reasonable prices, and I have also purchased some at other venues and swap meets. These can be exceptionally interesting especially if you are lucky enough to get some from the very area you model. They set forth every culvert and bridge (stating size and type and often the year installed), road crossing, diamonds, signal locations, depots and other structures, with a host of other useful information. Through slow and careful collecting I have the entire track chart original from Wiscona to Manitowoc in Wisconsin, on the C&NW -- this includes the line (now UP) that goes near my home. I was interested to see that early in the 20th century there was a gravel pit and spur near where some very nice houses are now located.
Dave Nelson

Dave Nelson

[Anonymous]

I have a few bits and pieces. 3 Worksplates (not sure if there's a US equivelent, these were fixed to stock over here to show when it had last been overhauled), a few videos, and a huge pile of old magazines!

[Anonymous]

I collect time tables from the 60's
Ch

[orsonroy]

I suppose what I'm up to is called collecting. I'm gathering as much information as I can on the roads and towns I'm modeling, for about 20 years before and after WWII. However, I'm really only interested in the information the stuff contains, and couldn't care less if the paperwork is original, a copy, or a scan. I'm not a traditional collector, I suppose. I've got stacks or ETTs, thousands of form 19's, and piles of maps, but they're all up for grabs if I can get ahold of some other nuggetts of data.

I do have a weakness for period photos though!

[Anonymous]

I also have a couple of RR spikes, some ballast, a real railjoiner, a lump of coal, and a RR tie.

[Anonymous]

I collect stock certs. and Dining car menus.

RMax

[Anonymous]

I collect almost anything that has to do with trains. I have a few lanterns, lots of old rusty spikes and rail plates, a lock from a switch and even the actual crossbucks from a railroad crossing sign (no, I didn't steal it, my uncle managed to get it for me because it was going to be thrown out). I also have a large collection of old vintage magazine ads for the various streamliners of the 50's that I have on my train room walls. I've got lots of magazines (both North American and British) about both real and model trains as well as plenty of books about trains. I've also got other various stuff like ornaments, keychains, etc., etc. If it has to do with trains, I want it!

[Paul W. Beverung]

Well I've got a bunch stuff, or junk, as my wife calls it. There are 5 switch stands. Tall, medium, and Ground throw. One derail, journal boxs from the tender of a sugar plantion locomotive, the cow catcher from one of the Six Flags Over Texas locomotives, the metal parts from a original sugar cane car and a bunch of other stuff. Yes. I am a pack rat.
Paul

[Anonymous]

Anything that catches my eye: Christmas cards with trains (I never mail those away); posters (reproductions); pins; and books--lots and lots of books, many of which I've yet to read.[^]

[Hawks05]

my mom gave me 5 Trains magazines from the late 50s and 60s. those are pretty cool. i plan on framing them as they are the first bit of memorabilia to me in the hobby. i'd like to find a CB&Q, GN, BN, or CNW clock or sign or something but that could be kind of hard to do.

[cacole]

A couple of months ago I stumbled across a siding way out in the middle of the desert here in SE Arizona, along the Sunset Route, where the SP used to repair rolling stock and maybe even locomotives -- it's a veritable goldmine of brake shoes, spikes, fish plates, pieces of rail, oil drums, and lots of other RR junk that was just strewn about the area. The EPA would probably have a fit if they ever saw this place. It appears as if the SP built a special siding six miles from the nearest civilization just so they could strew their junk parts around and not have to dispose of it.