Hey Dan, lots of similar tokens posted out there, if you look closely at the pic below, you'll see a United Railways like yours. If you do a search for "transit tokens you'll have pages and pages to look through. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="
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A note on transportation tokens from a good article on collecting US tokens:
>>Circa 1900 to 1931 is the Agriculture and Transportation Token Era. Beginning in the 1890's many general stores, primarily in the Middle West, began issuing tokens to pay farmers for their produce in order to save bookkeeping and to provide change in remote rural areas far from banks. Farm workers tokens - pickers and peelers checks - blossomed during this period. In the cities, streetcar and bus tokens were issued by the millions. Transportation tokens have their origin at the beginning of the 19th century with the toll road tokens of Pennsylvania, and there are many omnibus and stage coach tokens from New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston from the 1830's on, but explosive growth in these issues took place all across the country in the first quarter of the 20th century. They are so common today that a collection of 100 different pieces can be purchased for less than $20. Saloon tokens continued until Prohibition in 1919, and two new forms of advertising token appeared: the GOOD LUCK token, often with a swastika, horseshoe, and other "lucky" symbols on it, and the encased cent, with an advertising message and KEEP ME AND NEVER GO BROKE or similar around the coin. These first appeared as souvenirs at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901.<<<
At the link below, there's a list of the various streetcar companies that were consolidated into United Railways of St. Louis.
Geesh Dan, seems folks dropped a lot of stuff over the years at the Gateway to the West. Thanks for posting! <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="
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