I have a small number of railroad tokens as I find them very interesting. This is my newest one, from the New Haven railroad. What’s really interesting about this is the reverse side is for their dining Service.
Sorry to admit it, but I use to live very close to the tracks that ran from MA to Hartford to NYC. The freight trains were often very loud at 2 am. I used to see the train that carried the circus every year. I always wondered where they were headed. I also would go outside after school in my backyard and wait for a certain Amtrak train to pass by whereby a conductor would slow down near my house and toss a NYC newspaper over the fence for me. My mother would read it and say that it was all bad news. I just did it for the fun of it. We never knew the conductor and wondered why Us? Maybe the previous tenant knew him. We will never know, I guess.
I don't have very many transportation tokens. This is nice one for the New York and Harlaem Railroad which ran in New York City. It started out as a horse drawn coach on railes. They got a steam engine, but then the city fathers would not allow them to take the smokey thing into what was probably better neighborhoods. These pieces often have counterstamps. This one has a flower. Some have a running dog on them. This is listed as a Hard Times token.
I have several UP and SP tokens from the 1939 Worlds Fair in SF, need to image them sometime. I really desire to find some from the Wabash RR - as I have several pieces of memorabilia that my great grandmother saved from when she was a cook on the Wabash Cannonball in the 1930s.
