Vintage Illinois Central Railroad Bill of Lading Waybill Forms Lot ICRR Freight For Sale

Vintage Illinois Central Railroad Bill of Lading Waybill Forms Lot ICRR FreightOriginal vintage Illinois Central Railroad Company freight paperwork consisting of seven unused blank forms representing multiple portions of the railroad's freight billing and waybill system. Included are examples of the yellow Uniform Order Bill of Lading—Original (Part 1), blue Memorandum (Part 2), and Freight Waybill—Original (Part 4) forms, all bearing the Illinois Central name and distinctive “ic” railroad logo.
The forms are Form 194-10 and contain extensive period freight-shipping fields for car and trailer numbers, stations, routing, shipper and consignee information, commodity descriptions, weights, freight rates, charges and railroad accounting information. The Uniform Order Bill of Lading additionally references the standardized form adopted by carriers in 1922 and subsequently amended in 1930 and 1941.
A particularly appealing group of authentic railroad operating ephemera because these are unused working documents rather than later reproductions or souvenir material. Illinois Central waybills and shipping records survive in institutional railroad archives and document the actual movement and accounting of freight over the system.
Seven blank forms total; sold together exactly as photographed.
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