June 2026 Premier Railroadiana - Day 2

Live auction by Rail & Road Auctions

Starts Jun 11, 2026 10:00 AM EDT

Rail & Road Auctions is pleased to continue our June 2026 Railroadiana Auction with Day 2 of the sale on Thursday, June 11th. This second session features over 300 additional lots of railroadiana, with strong offerings in lanterns, dining car china and silver, porcelain signs, railroad photographs, locks and keys, bells, depot items, and transportation smalls. This session includes a wide range of railroad dining service material, with notable offerings from New York Central, Pennsylvania Railroad, Louisville & Nashville, Santa Fe, Chicago Rock Island & Pacific, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Missouri Pacific, and others. Collectors will find marked silver, china, dining car accessories, and related service pieces throughout the catalog, including larger silver groupings and several attractive individual pieces. Lantern collectors will find another strong selection in Day 2, including bell bottom, brass top, tall globe, and cast globe examples. Featured pieces include examples from Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh, New York & New England, New York Lake Erie & Western, New York Central & Hudson River, Seaboard, Pennsylvania, Atlantic Coast Line, Wabash, Erie, and other roads, with makers and styles including Keystone, Adlake Reliable, Armspear, C.T. Ham, Roberts Safety, and early brass-top forms. Day 2 is also particularly strong in railroad signs, signal items, and depot display material. Highlights include porcelain signs from Missouri Pacific, Railway Express Agency, Atlantic Coast Line, American Express, Monon, and Seaboard Air Line, along with a porcelain semaphore blade, employee bulletin board, ticket cabinet, step boxes, smoking stands, bells, and other railroad hardware and station pieces. Highlighted lots in the Day 2 session include an 1893-era Rio Grande Southern Otto Mears silver filigree pass, a Conrail 12-inch steel locomotive bell, a C.T. Ham Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh bell bottom lantern with blue cast globe, a New York & New England brass top bell bottom lantern, a Keystone “The Casey” Seaboard lantern, a large New York Central dining car silver service grouping, a Missouri Pacific “The Texan” porcelain sign, restored railroad club car smoking stands from Illinois Central and Seaboard Air Line, and Santa Fe El Capitan Fred Harvey dining car interior trim. Additional depth can be found in railroad photography and archive material, including Budd Company and Pullman-related photographs, passenger train publicity images, builder and construction views, and large framed railroad photographs. Other categories represented throughout the sale include locks and keys, badges, tickets, baggage and express items, cast iron hardware, gauges, bells, and assorted smalls from railroads across North America.

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