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1947-53
Zippo for The Alaska Railroad, Mt. McKinley National Park Route. Mt
McKinley has since been renamed Mt. Denali.
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1947-53
Zippo that reads "Lehigh PX", presumably the postal exchange for Lehigh Valley
Railroad in existence since 1846. |
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1947-53 Zippo
for Alco (American Locomotive Company) Diesel-Electric Locomotive Graduate
School by General Electric. |
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1950-53
Zippo for The Alaska Railroad, Mt. McKinley National Park Route. |
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1955 Zippo with
an engraved emblem for the Pennsylvania Railroad. |
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1963 Zippo
with an Indian holding the emblem of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
which was started in 1873 and merged into Burlington Northern in 1996. |
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1966 Zippo for the Santa Fe
Railway similar to the Zippo to the left, except it that it reads "Working for
Safety". |
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1967
with an attached logo for Westinghouse, a company that contributed to the
development of the railroad industry with the invention of the rotary steam
engine and the airbrake.
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1969 Zippo for Burlington Northern
was a United States-based railroad company operating from1970 until it merged
with the Santa Fe Railway in 1996. |
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1969 Zippo with
logo of Peoria & Eastern Railway Company. "Safety First Place 1968". The company
was founded in 1896 and was a subsidiary of the New York Central System. |
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1970 Zippo for Burlington Northern
which was created in 1970. In 1996 it
merged with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to form the Burlington
Northern and Santa Fe Railway. |
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This Zippo has been engraved
with the emblem of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers which is part of
the Teamsters Union, representing railroad engineers in the US and Canada. |
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Zippo with an attached badge
with the letters "IR", the logo for the Indiana Railroad. |
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This 1972 slim Zippo with a
sleeping "Chessie", a mascot for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. |
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1972 slim Zippo version of
an Indian holding the emblem of the Santa Fe Railway. |
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1974 Zippo with the emblem for
Union Pacific Railroad which was incorporated in 1862 and is today the
largest railroad network in the United States. |
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1976
slim Zippo with a crane and a train for Winters Railroad Service Co. of New
York. |
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1978 Zippo with the logo
of "mo-pac", or Missouri Pacific Railways. Founded in 1872, through a long
history of mergers by 1980 had become one of the largest railway companies in
the U.S. In 1982 it merged with Union Pacific and Western Pacific Railroad
companies to create the "Union Pacific System". |
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1984 Zippo
with a graphic of a train advertising All-Good Mfg. Co., G.T. "Red" Blackwell,
Oneonta, Alabama. |
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1991 Zippo with
the logo of the Missouri-Kansas- Texas Railroad. Founded in 1870, the "MKT"
is commonly referred to as "the K-T", its stock exchange symbol which evolved
into "the Katy". |
