Railroad, Express, & Street Railway Artifacts

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...

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...

ARTIFACT: Rare late 1930's Reading Company Railway police badge #'d 5The nicely detailed badge shows a streamlined "Crusader" engine at center with an armored knight whose arm and sword point in the direction the train is heading and seems to...