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

I have just started a blog at http://railcovers.blogspot.com/ for those of you that would like to leave comments or suggestions!
Check it out..... nothing fancy...


 
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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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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 Car & Foundry (A.C.F.) Fernwood, Columbia & Gulf RR Quanah, Acme & Pacific Rwy 
American-European Express Florida East Coast   
American Locomotive Co. ALCO Frankfort & Cincinnati Railroad Railway Express Agency 
Amtrak Frisco Reading Lines / New Jesery Central
Ann Arbor Railroad

GE - General Electic

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

Green Bay & Western 

Santa Fe Railway
  Gulf, Mobile & Northern R.R. Scranton Railway Company 
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (BLH) Gulf, Mobile & Ohio  Seaboard Air Line & SCL
Baltimore & Ohio Illinois Central  Soo Line
Bangor & Aroostook Jersey Central Lines South Shore Line
Barre & Chelsea RR (Vermont) Kanas City Southern  Southern Pacific 
Belfast & Moosehead Lake   Southern Railway 
Beseemer & Lake Erie Lackawanna Railroad  Spokane, Portland & Seattle
Boston & Maine Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad Springfield Suburban RR Co.
BC RAIL & Pacific Great Eastern Lehigh Valley Railroad St. Louis Southwestern Railway 
British Railways Litchfield & Madison Railway  Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia
B.of L.E. & B.of R.R. Trainmen Long Island Railroad  Tennessee Central Railway
Burlington Northern Louisville & Arkansas Rwy Texas & Pacific Railway
California Western Railroad Louisville & Nashville Toledo, Peoria & Western
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 Rock Island 7/31/10

Chicago & North Western Norfolk & Western Railway

Added to AC&Y 8/1/10

Chicago Great Western Railway Norfolk Southern (Original)

Added & updated GE 8/1/10

Columbus & Greenville Rwy  Norfolk Southern (Current)

Added & updated A&SAB 8/1/10

 Delaware & Hudson Railway North Shore Line 

Added & Updated NYC 10/30/10

Denver & Rio Grande Western  Northeast Oklahoma Railroad

Added more N&W 11/7/10

Detroit & Mackinac Railway Northern Pacific 

Added NS (Original) 3/26/11

Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Rwy Ontario Northland

Added Springfield Suburban 3/26/11

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Pacific Electric Railway

Added B&O 4/7/11

  Pennsylvania Railroad 

Added SOO LINE 4/24/11

Added South Shore Line 4/26/11

Added & Updated TP&W 4/30/11

Added to EJ&E covers 5/1/11

Added & Updated ACL 5/3/11

Added more TP&W 5/5/11

Re-did & added T&P 5/7/11

Re-did & Added SAL 5/7/11

Added Jersey Central Lines 5/8/11

Added & Updated Nickle Plate 5/10/11

Added Genesse & Wyoming 5/11/11

Re-did & added D&H 5/15/11

Re-did & added to BAR 5/16/11

Added 24 new UP Agent Covers 5/19/11

Added Milwaukee Road 6/18/11

Added & re-did C&NW 8/21/11

Added B&ML 9/2/11

Added DSS&A 9/3/11

Added more CV covers 9/6/11

Added more EMD covers 9/10/11

Added Great Northern covers 9/17/11

 
Last updated on September 17, 2011


A lot of the logos and heralds plus most of the 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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