Houghton's RailImages
Railroad Matchcover Collection

Largest on-line railroad matchcover website!

 

Welcome to my Railroad Match cover web site were you will view a by-gone era of railroad advertising and art work. This site is a work in progress. I currently have approximately 2000+ 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 probably hundreds if not 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.
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 Coast Line Genesee & Wyoming RF&P
Atlantic & Danville Railway Georgia RR / A&W / W. Ry of A. Rock Island
Atlantic & East Carolina Rwy Grand Trunk Railway  Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Rwy
Atlantic & North Carolina RR Great Northern Railway Rutland Railway
Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Rwy    
Assoc. of American Railroads

Green Bay & Western 

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

Newest Additions
Chicago & Eastern Illinois

New York, Ontario & Western

Added Rock Island 7/31/10
Chicago & Illinois Midland Norfolk & Western Railway

Added to AC&Y 8/1/10
Chicago & North Western Norfolk Southern (Original)

Added & updated GE 8/1/10
Chicago Great Western Railway Norfolk Southern (Current)

Added & updated A&SAB 8/1/10

 Columbus & Greenville Rwy 

 North Shore Line 

Added & Updated NYC 10/30/10
Delaware & Hudson Railway Northeast Oklahoma Railroad

Added more N&W 11/7/10
Denver & Rio Grande Western  Northern Pacific Railway

Added NS (Original) 3/26/11
Detroit & Mackinac Railway Ontario Northland

Added Springfield Suburban 3/26/11
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Rwy Pacific Electric Railway

Added B&O 4/7/11
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 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

Re-did & Added Lackawanna 4/21/12

Added Charles City Western Rwy 5/27/12

Added CofG Rwy 6/3/12

Added more Algoma Central 6/3/12

Added Northern Pacific 12/22/12

Added Tennesse Central Rwy 12/23/12

Added American Car & Foundry 12/24/12

Added A. & E.C. 12/25/12

Added A. & N.C. 12/25/12
 
Last updated on December 25, 2012


A lot of the logos and heralds plus most of the railroad fonts that you see on this web site were created by Benn Coifman using his railroad 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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