November 2026 Railroad Collectors Auction

Timed auction by Rail & Road Auctions

Starts Nov 12, 2026 10:00 AM EST. Ends Nov 29, 2026 7:00 PM EST

November 2026 Railroadiana Collector Auction 466 Lots of Railroadiana, Lanterns, Locks & Keys, Railroad Hardware, Timetables, Paper Ephemera, Dining Car China & More Rail & Road Auctions is pleased to present our November 2026 Railroadiana Collector Auction, featuring 466 lots of railroad artifacts, operating equipment, historical documents, dining car collectibles, and memorabilia. From early railroad timetables and advertising to lanterns, locks, keys, railroad tinware, and employee memorabilia, this auction offers a wide variety of material for collectors of nearly every interest. Railroad hardware and operating equipment are particularly well represented, with an extensive selection of lanterns, switch lamps, locks, keys, oil cans, tools, and signal equipment. Highlights include a Pennsylvania Railroad Star Flasher caboose warning light (Lot 4998), an Adlake semaphore lantern with Corning lenses (Lot 5048), an Adams & Westlake switch lamp (Lot 5042), and a Baltimore & Ohio Oxweld carbide lantern (Lot 5026). Collectors will also find dozens of railroad-marked oilers, tinware, brake and reverser handles, telegraph equipment, and a Lehigh & New England track gauge (Lot 5099). An especially large assortment of railroad locks and keys includes individual examples, matched sets, and collections representing the Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Louisville & Nashville, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, New York Central, Canadian National, and many others. Noteworthy offerings include groups of 40 railroad keys (Lot 4881) and more than 60 keys (Lot 4893), along with brass and steel padlocks and switch locks. Collectors of historical railroad paper and ephemera will find employee and public timetables, railroad passes, tickets, maps, brochures, rule books, photographs, and company records spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Highlights include an 1884 Ontario & Western/West Shore excursion poster (Lot 4767), an 1884 Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad cash ledger (Lot 4929), an 1882 Saratoga Lake Railway timetable (Lot 4934), a South Shore Line "The Dunes Beaches" poster (Lot 4971), and an 1891 West Shore Railroad wall timetable (Lot 5002). Louisville & Nashville Railroad memorabilia forms another substantial portion of the auction, with early documents, annual reports, railroad passes, employee publications, photographs, uniform insignia, and operating artifacts. Featured pieces include an 1896 L&N Certificate of Distinction (Lot 4794), nineteenth-century company documents and annual reports (Lot 4894), and extensive groups of Louisville & Nashville Magazine issues from the 1930s and 1940s (Lots 5177 and 5180–5181). Additional offerings include railroad hat badges, uniform buttons, service pins, and employee collectibles, highlighted by a Jacksonville Terminal Red Cap badge (Lot 4822), a Southern Railway flagman badge (Lot 4823), and a group of 14 railroad cap badges (Lot 5028). Dining car china, silver, and passenger service memorabilia include Union Pacific Desert Flower and Winged Streamliner china (Lots 5079 and 5081), a Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad soup tureen with underliner (Lot 5194), and Pennsylvania Railroad Purple Laurel china (Lot 5203). Rounding out the sale are railroad advertising, artwork, photographs, books, maps, playing cards, calendars, and other transportation collectibles, including a 1920s Western Electric telephone switchboard (Lot 4925) and a Howard Fogg ALCO Freedom Train print (Lot 5001). Railroads represented include the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Lackawanna, Norfolk & Western, Southern Railway, Louisville & Nashville, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, Illinois Central, Milwaukee Road, Chicago & North Western, Rock Island, Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, and many others. Whether you're searching for a specific railroad, adding to an established collection, or simply enjoy discovering unusual pieces of railroad history, we invite you to explore the complete 466-lot catalog and join us for our November Railroadiana Collector Auction.

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