Houghton's RailImages
Railroad Matchcover Collection

 Welcome to my Railroad Match cover web site. Here you will view a by-gone era of railroad advertising and art work. This site is a work in progress. I currently have approximately 1200+ covers and matchbooks in my collection and there are others out there who even have more.
 I don't think anyone really knows how many railroad matchcovers still survive. I do know that there are thousands of covers that I don't have!
If you have any covers that I don't have here and would like to sell or trade them
please contact me and maybe we can work something out.

If your not interested in parting with the covers that you have maybe you can send me a good scan if you have something that is not shown here
and I can add it along with a note stating who's collection it is from.

Click on a railroad name below to view the match cover(s) for that road.
A new page will open up showing the match covers. When you are done just click on the "X" in the upper right corner to close the page or on the newer pages click on "Home" to return to this page.
I have posted multiple views including the backs of the covers when there is something there.
I do have covers from all of the roads listed below and as time permits I will scan them and add the links so you can view them.

I hope you enjoy viewing them!

If you have any comments please feel to email me at
Houghton's RailImages
or you can chat with me using Skype if I'm online.
My Skype id is railimages


 
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Not matchcover related, just a plug for my other railroad websites.
I have two other railroad websites that contain railroad photos for viewing,
PLUS I am now offering railroad color prints and enlargements for sale which are great for modeling or just to add to your collection.

You can check the photos that I'm selling at this link. Houghton's RailImages Photos

My other sites are:
Houghton's RailImages - New England & Beyond
and just plain
 Houghton's RailImages


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**NEW ADDITION**  Railroad Matchbook Sets

Akron, Canton & Youngstown Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Penn Central Railroad
Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Edaville RR - S. Carver, MA Peoria & Pekin Union Railway 
Alaska Railroad EJ&E Railway Pere Marquette 
Algoma Central Erie Railroad  Phila. Trans. Co. Trolley / WWII
Alton Railroad Co. Fairmont Railway Motors, Inc. Pittsburgh & West Virginia Rwy 
American-European Express Fernwood, Columbia & Gulf RR Quanah, Acme & Pacific Rwy 
American Locomotive Co. ALCO    
Amtrak Florida East Coast  Railway Express Agency 
Ann Arbor Railroad Frankfort & Cincinnati Railroad Reading Lines / New Jesery Central
Ashley, Drew & Northern Rwy Frisco  
Atlantic & Danville Railway

GE - General Electic

  
Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Rwy General Motors - EMD RF&P
Atlantic Coast Line Georgia RR / A&W / W. Ry of A. Rock Island
Assoc. of American Railroads Grand Trunk Railway  Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Rwy
Auto Train Great Northern Railway Rutland Railway
Baltimore & Ohio

Green Bay & Western 

 Santa Fe Railway
Bangor & Aroostook Gulf, Mobile & Northern R.R. Scranton Railway Company 
Barre & Chelsea RR (Vermont) Gulf, Mobile & Ohio  Seaboard & Seaboard Coast Line
Belfast & Moosehead Lake Illinois Central  Soo Line
Beseemer & Lake Erie Jersey Central Lines  South Shore Line
Boston & Maine Kanas City Southern  Southern Pacific 
BC RAIL & Pacific Great Eastern Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Southern Railway 
British Railways Lackawanna Railroad  Spokane, Portland & Seattle Rwy 
B.of L.E. & B.of R.R. Trainmen Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad St. Louis Southwestern Railway 
Burlington Northern Lehigh Valley Railroad Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia
  Litchfield & Madison Railway   
  Long Island Railroad  Tennessee Central Railway
California Western Railroad Louisville & Arkansas Rwy Texas & Pacific Railway
Louisville & Nashville Toledo, Peoria & Western RR
Canadian General Transit Co. Milwaukee Road  Union Pacific Railroad
Canadian National Railway Misc Railroad Related Covers VIA Rail
Canadian Pacific Railway

Mississippi Export Railroad

 Virginian Railway 
Chattahoochee Valley Rwy Missouri - Kansas - Texas Wabash 
Central of Georgia Railway Missouri Pacific  West Virginia Rail Company 
Central Vermont Railway  Monon Western Maryland
Chesapeake & Ohio Mount Washington Cog Railroad Western Pacific
Chicago, Attica and Southern New Haven Railroad  Wichita Falls & Southern RR Co.
CB&Q / Burlington Zephyrs New York Central  Wisconsin & Michigan Railroad 
Chicago & Eastern Illinois New York, Chicago & St. Louis

Newest Additions
Chicago & Illinois Midland New York, Ontario & Western 

Added & updated Union Pacific
Chicago & North Western Norfolk & Western Railway 

part one, more to follow 7/22/10
Chicago Great Western Railway Norfolk Southern (Original)

Added another UP page. 7/27/10
Columbus & Greenville Rwy  Norfolk Southern (Current)

Added Rock Island 7/31/10
Delaware & Hudson  North Shore Line 

Added to AC&Y 8/1/10
Denver & Rio Grande Western  Northeast Oklahoma Railroad

Added & updated GE 8/1/10
Detroit & Mackinac Railway Northern Pacific 

Added & updated A&SAB 8/1/10
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Rwy Ontario Northland

 
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Pacific Electric Railway

 
  Pennsylvania Railroad 

 

 

 
Last updated on August 1, 2010
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The logos and heralds plus any railroad fonts that you see on this web site were created by using Benn Coifman's and Railfonts.com fonts. I highly recommend that you visit his site Railfonts.com and help support his font creations by buying some of the fonts that he has to offer. They are well worth the money! I bought the entire package or as Benn calls it the "Whole Ball o' Wax".

 


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