Railroad Bagage Tag

[Jeff In North Georgia]

Was detecting around an old home site that is about to become a Quick Trip gas station.
Found the usual stuff but got one interesting piece. A "SR" bagage claim tag. Not sure what the actual RR name was but still a nice find.

HH
Jeff

 

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[creskol]

That is very cool find!.. I love baggage tags. Yours is a Southern Railway tag.
Check out one similar on this site: http://tinyurl.com/3h3gy7x

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

Nice !!!!

 

[{Sentinel}]

Very Nice Baggage tag there, congrats

 

[AGBlex]

that is an awesome piece of history! keep diggin

 

[ncsilverspider]

Man! That is an AWESOME FIND!!! I have some items from the Southern Railway (I am a HUGE trainnut ) that have that same arrow design on it. I did some research and found out that the "SR arrow" logo was used from 1894 (When the Southern Railway was formed) up to 1915! Then they changed to ther round "SR-Southern Serves the South" Logo. And judging from the word "Local" on the tag, my guess is that the tag came from a piece of luggage/package that was on a SR frieght/ passenger train that ran in a certain town or in a certain part of Georgia. So that is an AWESOME find in EXCELLENT condition! An excellent relic from Southern Steam era! HUGE CONGRATS!!!!!

 

[Jeff In North Georgia]

Also found a So. RR key several years ago in a house yard, different town. Here is a picture.