Street Railway Transportation Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a Wonderful Large 1870's - 1890's Philadelphia & Reading Railway Police Circle Star Badge Hand Stamped. VINTAGE: 1870s - 1880s. SIZE: Approximately 2-3/8" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel plated nickel with painted...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930's Rotterdamse Elektrische Tram Operator Hat Badge by JR Gaunt. VINTAGE: 1930s. SIZE: Approximately 3" in width x 1-1/8" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel with hard fired red enamel. ATTACHMENT: Two screw post with...

ARTIFACT: This is a Rare Circa 1900's New York City Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners Inspector Badge #27. VINTAGE: Circa 1900s. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" in length x 1-1/2" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Stamped Nickel with painted...

ARTIFACT: This is a Extremely Rare ca 1900 POrtsmouth Electric Railway Motorman Hat Badge #7. VINTAGE: Circa 1900s. SIZE: Approximately 4-1/2" x 1-13/16" CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel, MARKINGS: Maker Mark: BORN HATTER ITEM NOTES: This is...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s Boston, Massachusetts Metropolitan Transit Authority Street Railway Police badge numbered 102. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s. SIZE: Approximately 3" in height and 2-1/8" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel with black painted...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s Boston, MA Metropolitan Transit Authority Street Railway Police badge #109. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s. SIZE: About 2-3/16" in width by 3-1/8" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel with black painted lettering...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s Boston, Massachusetts Metropolitan Transit Authority Street Railway Police badge numbered 546. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s. SIZE: About 2-1/8" in width by 3-1/16" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel-plated brass with black...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1940s-1950s Pittsburgh Railways Company inspector hat badge and agreement booklet for railway employees. Also included is a memorandum dealing with paid holiday time from 1958 addressed to Elmer A. Koch, the presumed original owner of...

ARTIFACT: This is a gorgeously colored trolley card from the 1930s advertising Sunkist lemons from California. Trolley cards were used as a means of advertising mostly in San Francisco in the 1920s and 1930s. This card shows lemons from all angles...

ARTIFACT: Late 1970's New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) hard hat for Power Infrastructure Employee in excellent condition. The white hard hat features the NYC MTA emblem on either side. The adhesive disc is silver with a large "M" in the...

ARTIFACT: Nice 1930's – 1940's New York City Transit System Employee Badge. The center of the round badge features the number: "2240" and surrounding it reads: "NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT SYSTEM" in black painted detail with a black ring...

ARTIFACT: 1920's-30's Boston Metropolitan (Metro) Transit Authority Street Railway Police Badge #56The Boston Elevated Railway started replacing rail vehicles with buses in 1922, a process later dubbed "bustitution". The last Middlesex and...