Description

1954 Post Cereal Illinois Central Railroad Tin

part of the 28 piece set

There were 28 emblems. Post Cereals announced them in February 1954 as giveaways in specially marked boxes of Sugar Crisp. From May 1954 – November 1955 with one Sugar Crisp box top and 25 cents you could receive a set of seven emblems and a 36 page Railroad Fun Book.

There were 4 separate sets and they were grouped as Northeastern, Central and Northern, Western, and Central and Southern railroads. The sets were as follows:

Set #1 NYC, Lackawanna, PRR, Nickel Plate, B&O, Reading, and Erie
Set #2 C&EI, CGW, Wabash, GTW, CNW, Rock Island, Burlington
Set #3 SP, Western Pacific, Santa Fe, Milwaukee, NP, UP, Great Northern
Set #4 ACL, Seaboard, IC, C&O, MKT, Missouri Pacific, Southern

Missing is the Nickle Plate Road, The Erie, The Rock Island and the Northwestern

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