Railroads


Railroad Cancels:  Erie Railroad, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific
Railroad Rolling Stock Cancels:  Southern Iron Car Line, Austell Refrigerated Car Line, South Eastern Line


As a group, railroads consumed tens of millions of 1898 documentary revenue stamps, particularly for their use on bills of lading and drafts/checks.  The 2 cent stamps above were all taken from drafts used to settle expenses between railroads.



Below are links to railroad cancel posts on this website prior to 2015.

A. Knabb & Company -- 2011 June 6

American Railways Company -- 2010 May 15

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway -- 2011 November 4
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway -- 2011 September 12
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway -- 2010 March 13

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad -- 2010 May 14

Atlantic & Danville Railway -- 2011 January 11

Austell Refrigerator Car Line -- 2011 May 4

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad -- 2010 March 3

Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad -- 2011 September 16
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway -- 2011 April 10

Bay Terminal Railroad -- 2010 December 30
Bay Terminal Railroad -- 2009 November 30

Boston & Albany Railroad -- 2011 January 8

Boston & Providence Railroad -- 2011 October 2

Brockton, Bridgewater & Taunton Street Railway -- 2010 April 24

Burlington & Missori River Railroad in Nebraska -- 2010 December 16
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska -- 2010 March 13

California Fruit Transportation Company -- 2011 January 11

Canadian Pacific Railway -- 2011 July 15

Central Equipment Company -- 2011 June 13

Central of Georgia Railway -- 2009 November 4

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway -- 2011 November 14
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway -- 2010 January 20

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad -- 2011 November 8
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad -- 2011 August 17
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad -- 2011 August 16
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad -- 2011 August 15
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad -- 2011 August 14
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad -- 2011 August 14
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad -- 2010 September 14
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad -- 2010 September 8
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad -- 2010 March 13

Chicago, Fort Madison & Des Moines Railroad -- 2010 September 21

Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw Railway -- 2010 May 24

Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway -- 2009 December 6

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway -- 2011 September 28
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway -- 2011 July 13
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway -- 2010 September 23

Chicago & Northwestern Railway -- 2011 April 13
Chicago & Northwestern Railway -- 2010 September 26

Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railroad -- 2010 March 8
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway -- 2010 October 4

Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway -- 2009 November 2

Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway -- 2009 December 20

Cincinnati Northern Railroad -- 2011 January 12

Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia Railroad -- 2010 December 21

Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad - 2011 August 30

Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway -- 2010 December 8

Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway -- 2010 March 4

Cleveland Terminal & Valley Railroad -- 2011 December 3

Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway -- 2010 December 21

Connelsville & Monongahela Railway -- 2009 November 17

Continental Fruit Express -- 2010 January 7

Dayton & Union Railroad -- 2011 June 14

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad -- 2011 January 7

Detroit & Lima Northern Railway -- 2009 November 6

Detroit & Wyandotte Street Railway -- 2010 October 29

Erie Railroad -- 2009 November 1

Express Coal Line -- 2011 August 29

Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad -- 2011 June 20

Freeman Brothers Refrigerator Line -- 2011 January 11

Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad -- 2010 October 5

Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway -- 2010 March 24

Great Northern Railway -- 2011 July 5
Great Northern Railway -- 2010 March 13

Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad -- 2010 October 9

Hot Springs Railroad -- 2011 August 26

Illinois Central Railroad -- 2010 October 8
Illinois Central Railroad -- 2010 October 3
Illinois Central Railway -- 2010 July 8

Inidana, Illinois, & Iowa Railroad -- 2009 November 10

Interior & Seabord Refrgerator Line -- 2011 January 11

International & Great Northern Railroad -- 2010 October 11
International & Great Northern Railroad -- 2010 February 27

Jacksonville & St. Louis Railway -- 2010 April 13

Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railway -- 2010 October 13
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad -- 2010 March 10

Kansas City Northwestern Railroad -- 2010 October 24

Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad -- 2010 October 17

Keokuk & Western Railroad -- 2009 December 27

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2011 November 10
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2011 June 15
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2011 May 1
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2011 January 4
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2011 January 3
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2011 January 2
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2010 December 28
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2010 December 24
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2010 March 31
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2010 January 1
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2009 December 25
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway -- 2009 November 16

Little Rock & Memphis Railroad -- 2011 January 19

Live Poultry Transportation Company -- 2011 January 11

Louisville & Nashville Railroad -- 2010 June 12

Mahoning Valley Railway -- 2009 November 27

Manchester Street Railway -- 2011 July 20

Manistee & Northeastern Railroad -- 2011 August 27
Manistee & Northeastern Railroad -- 2010 June

Michigan Central Railroad -- 2010 October 12
Michigan Central Railroad -- 2009 November 26

Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway -- 2011 April 20

Missouri Pacific Railway -- 2011 November 6
Missouri Pacific Railway -- 2010 December 16
Missouri Pacific Railway -- 2010 October 15
Missouri Pacific Railway -- 2010 July 15
Missouri Pacific Railway -- 2010 July 6

Mohawk & Malone Railroad -- 2010 October 16

Montpelier & Wells River Railroad -- 2011 January 25

Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway -- 2010 May 25

New York Central & Hudson River Railroad -- 2011 December 18
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad -- 2010 October 22
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad -- 2010 October 16
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad -- 2010 June 29
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad -- 2010 March 14

New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad -- 2010 June 15

New York & Harlem Railroad -- 2010 October 22

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad -- 2011 October 1
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad -- 2010 December 18

New York, Ontario & Western Railway -- 2011 April 8

Norfolk & Western Railway -- 2011 December 1

Northern Ohio Railway -- 2010 April 24

Northern Pacific Railway -- 2011 September 20

Ohio River Railroad -- 2011 April 12

Pennsylvania Railroad -- 2011 November 28
Pennsylvania Railroad -- 2011 October 3
Pennsylvania Railroad -- 2009 November 3

Pennsylvania & Northwestern Railroad -- 2010 July 18

Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway -- 2010 May 30

Philadelphia City Passenger Railway Company -- 2010 January 10

Philadelphia & Reading Railway -- 2011 April 14

Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway -- 2011 April 18

Pittsburgh and Western Railway -- 2011 January 6

Producers Oil Company Ltd -- 2011 June 11

St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway -- 2010 December 16
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway -- 2010 October 15

St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railroad -- 2010 October 17

St. Louis Southwestern Railway -- 2011 October 24
St. Louis Southwestern Railway -- 2011 June 10
St. Louis Southwestern Railway -- 2010 December 16
St. Louis Southwestern Railway -- 2010 October 15

St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas -- 2010 October 15

St. Paul & Duluth Railroad -- 2010 April 11

Sioux City Pacific Railroad -- 2010 October 21

South Eastern Line -- 2010 January 2010

Southern Iron Car Line -- 2011 August 7

Southern Missouri & Arkansas Railway -- 2011 April 9

Southern Pacific Company
Southern Pacific Railroad -- 2010 January 9

Star Union Line -- 2010 January 25

Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad -- 2010 November 15

Tyler Southeastern Railway -- 2010 October 15

Union Pacific Railroad -- 2011 November 2
Union Pacific Railroad -- 2009 November 8

Union Pacific Coal Company -- 2010 March 7

Union Refrigerator Line -- 2011 August 29

Union Street Railway -- 2010 October 29

Venice Transportation Company -- 2011 January 11

Virginia & Truckee Railroad -- 2010 January 14

Western New York & Pennsylvania Railway -- 2010 June 22

Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad -- 2010 February 8

Wisconsin Central Lines -- 2011 August 30