Railroad, Express, & Street Railway Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s or 1940s Pennsylvania Railroad Company railway police sergeant badge #4025. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s-1940s. SIZE: About 2-1/4" in width by 2-5/8" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel-plated brass...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1890s New York, New Haven & Hartford (N.Y., N.H. & H.) Railroad police badge. The N.Y., N.H. & H operated from 1872 until 196The shield-shaped badge has a finely etched border and a maker mark on reverse from the American...

ARTIFACT: This is very rare Chicago Railroad Police Commission sergeant badge. The badge reads THE CHICAGO RAILROAD POLICE COMMISSION SERGEANT 18 and shows the State of Illinois seal at center and an eagle at top. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s-1920s...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s "stock" Special Police badge as used in Baltimore, Maryland railroad yards. This badge is a six-pointed star and is in excellent condition. The pin on reverse has a rectangular saddle. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1950s New York State Railway Long Island Rail Road detective and mini badge. The large badge reads STATE RAILWAY L.I.R.R. POLICE DETECTIVE 423 and shows the State of New York seal at center. The mini badge reads STATE RAILWAY LIRR...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1880s or 1890s Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers steam engine and coal tender lapel pin: it is the only one I've seen. The pin is beautifully handmade and hand-engraved in tested 14 karat yellow and rose gold. There are many...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1942 collar tab for the Deutsches Reichsbahn (German Reich Railway), an interconnected railway created after World War I to link all the former German states. The badge is in a trapezoid shape with a striped piping and has a...

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: This is an unidentified circa 1910s or 1920s enameled lapel pin by Whitehead & Hoag. It has a red keystone at its center and reads P.R.R. W.W.R. around its border. It may possibly have something to do with the Pennsylvania Rail Road. WWR are...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified 1930s pin, most likely for a transportation association. The letters FTA are at the top of the pin in Deco script, and could stand for Freight Transport Association, or something similar. The pin is gold-filled and shows...

ARTIFACT: This is a named circa World War I service medal issued to S.J. Coll, a employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, founded in 184The medal is shaped like a keystone (for the Keystone State") and was issued without a ribbon. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a distinctive insignia for the United States Army 2nd Military Railway Service, a unit that had less than one hundred men. The insignia shows a lion with an eagle's head and wings and the service's motto: PER ANGUSTA AD AUGUSTA (through...