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Shellabear/H. Tolman II Railroad Cancel Database

[This is a work in progress, with much data entry still to be done. Once the railroad cancel database is completed, work will begin on putting the insurance cancel reference online. Estimated completion date: unknown.]

This is an interactive version of the Shellabear/H. Tolman II reference of railroad cancels. Clicking on a company below will display a pictoral list of cancels from that company. The number in parentheses after the company name is the number of cancels in the reference from that company.

You can do a cancel text search of the railroad cancel database by entering portion(s) of the non-date cancel text. Spaces and punctuation will be stripped and case is unimportant. This is a great resource if you only have a partial cancel to work with.

This will work best with small uniquely-identifiable portions of the cancel, e.g. "Nashville" rather than "the". Keep in mind that for the sake of brevity, city names were often abbreviated, i.e., a search for "phila" is likely to turn up more results than "philadelphia".

This only searches handstamp and printed cancels, not manuscript cancels.

Alphabetical List of Railroads (612 total cancels)

Pan Handle (2)

Pan Handle & Little Miami (1)

Paterson & Hudson River (1)

Paterson & Newark (1)

Paterson & Ramapo (1)

Peninsula (3)

Pennsylvania & West Branch Canal Companies (1)

Pennsylvania Coal Co. (2)

Peoples Passenger (1)

Peoria & Bureau Valley (10)

Peoria & Hannibal (1)

Peoria & Rock Island (1)

Perkiomen (1)

Peru & Indianapolis (1)

Petersburg (1)

Petersburgh Branch (1)

Philadelphia & Gray's Ferry Passenger (4)

Philadelphia City Passenger (3)

Philadelphia Commercial Wharf (2)

Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown (5)

Pickering Valley (1)

Pittsburgh & Connellsville (2)

Pittsburgh & Steubenville (1)

Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, & Chicago (12)

Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston (1)

Port Royal (2)

Portland & Kennebec (5)

Portland & Ogdensburg (2)

Poughkeepsie & Eastern (1)

Providence & Worcester (22)

Providence Marine (1)

Providence, Warren & Bristol (4)

Quincy & Palmyra (1)

Racine & Mississippi (1)

Raleigh & Gaston (18)

Raritan & Deleware Bay (2)

Reading & Columbia (5)

Rennselaer & Saratoga (10)

Richmond & Danville (3)

Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac (1)

Ridgefield & New York (1)

Rochester City & Brighton (1)

Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis (1)

Rockville (1)

Rocky River (2)

Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg (20)

Rutland & Burlington (6)

Salem (6)

San Francisco & Alameda (1)

San Francisco & San Jose (1)

Sandusky, Dayton & Cincinnati (5)

Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark (8)

Santa Cruz (1)

Savannah & Charleston (4)

Schenectady & Susquehanna (1)

Schuylkill Haven & Lehigh River (5)

Schuylkill Navigation (2)

Schuylkill River Passenger (1)

Seaboard & Roanoke (9)

Second & Third Streets (Philadelphia) (3)

Selma & Meridian (2)

Selma, Marion & Memphis (1)

Selma, Rome & Dalton (2)

Seventeenth & Nineteenth Streets (Philadelphia) (3)

Sheboygan & Fond Du Lac (1)

Shepaug Valley (1)

Shore Line (12)

Sioux City & Pacific (1)

Sixth Avenue (N.Y. City) (1)

Somerset & Kennebec (1)

Somerville Horse (2)

South American Navigation & Marine (1)

South Carolina (8)

South Carolina Central (1)

South Mountain Iron (1)

South Shore (6)

South Side (of Virginia) (2)

South Side of Long Island (1)

South Western (5)

Southern Central (3)

Southern Pacific (4)

Southern Pacific Transportation & Railroad (1)

Southern Pennsylvania Iron & Railroad (1)

Springfield & Illinois South-Eastern (1)

Spuyten Duyvil & Port Morris (2)

St. Louis & Missouri (1)

St. Joseph & Denver City (1)

St. Louis & Iron Mountain (3)

St. Louis & St. Joseph (1)

St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute (11)

St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern (1)

St. Louis, Jacksonville & Chicago (1)

St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute (2)

St. Paul & Chicago (1)

St. Paul & Pacific - First Division (3)

St. Paul & Sioux City (1)

State Street Horse (New Haven) (1)

Staten Island (3)

Sterling Mountain (2)

Steubenville & Indiana (11)

Stockbridge & Pittsfield (4)

Sullivan County (1)

Susquehanna Canal (7)

Swedesboro (3)

Syracuse Northern (1)

Syracuse, Binghampton & New York (8)

Taunton Branch (6)

Terre Haute & Indianapolis (13)

Terre Haute & Richmond (8)

Third Avenue (New York City) (8)

Thirteenth & Fifteenth Streets (Philadelphia) (1)

Tioga (33)

Toledo & Wabash (3)

Toledo, Logansport & Burlington (4)

Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw (2)

Toledo, Tiffin & Eastern (2)

Toledo, Wabash & Western (4)

Troy & Albia Horse (1)

Troy & Boston (2)

Troy & Lansingburgh (1)

Troy City (1)

Truckerton (1)

Tyrone & Clearfield (2)

Union (4)

Union & Logansport (7)

Union Canal Co. of Pennsylvania (1)

Union Pacific (35)

Union Pacific - Central Branch (4)

Union Pacific - Eastern Division (3)

Union Pacific - Southern Branch (1)

Union Passenger (4)

Union R.R. & Transportation Co. (5)

Utah Central (1)

Utah Southern (1)

Utica & Black River (3)

Utica, Chenango & Susquehanna Valley (1)

Utica,Clinton & Birmingham (1)

Valley (1)

Vermont & Massachussetts (2)

Vermont Central & Vermont & Canada (18)

Vermont Valley (3)

Vineland (1)

Virginia & Tennessee (1)

Virginia & Truckee (1)

Wabash & Western (1)

Ware River (2)

Washington, Alexandria & Georgetown (2)

Wat-Chung (2)

West Chester & Philadelphia (2)

West Jersey (2)

West Philadelphia (3)

West Shore Hudson River (1)

Western (20)

Western & Atlantic (1)

Western Maryland (2)

Western North Carolina (1)

Western Pacific of California (1)

Western Pennsylvania (5)

Western Union (7)

Western of Alabama (1)

Whitehall & Plattsburgh (1)

Wicomico & Pocomoke (1)

Wilmington & Manchester (1)

Wilmington & Reading (4)

Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta (1)

Winchester & Huntsville (2)

Winona & St. Peter (6)

Woodstock (1)

Worcester & Nashua (3)

Wrightsville, York & Gettysburg (1)

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