Railroad, Express, & Street Railway Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 Saint Louis Ð San Francisco Railroad ("Frisco Lines") employee badge. The badge is a simple oval and is engraved with the words ST L. Ð S. F. R.R. STATION MAIL EMPLOYEE. VINTAGE: Circa 1916. SIZE: 1-3/16" height and...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare Pennsylvania County Railroad Special Police "Strike Buster" brass 6-point star badge. VINTAGE: Circa early 1900s. SIZE: About 2-5/8" in width by 3" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Brass with painted detail...

ARTIFACT: This is a numbered 1920s Baltimore & Ohio (B & O) Railroad police badge. Started in 1830, the B&O was an effort by the port city of Baltimore to open up routes to the west rivaling the Erie Canal. The B&O eventually also ran from Baltimore to...

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...