Description

1954 Post Cereal Wabash Railroad Tin

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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