Railroad, Express, & Street Railway Artifacts

ARTIFACT: Great circa 1900 Wheeling Traction Company Conductor badge. The shield shaped, black celluloid badge reads: "CONDUCTOR 258 WHEELING TR. CO." in white detail. The reverse reads: "HEEREN BROS. & CO. PITTSBURGH, PA. W.C. PATENTED" and...

ARTIFACT: Great circa 1910's – 1920's Wheeling Traction System (street railway) employee badge. The oval shaped badge reads: "WHEELING TRACTION SYSTEM EMPLOYEE" in black painted detail and the center shows the number: "719". The...

ARTIFACT: This is a fabulous Portsmouth Electric Railway conductor hat, badge, key ring and ticket puncher. The PER served the Portsmouth areas from 1899 through 192The hat is a dark blue wool and has a large brass plate on the front that reads CONDUCTOR...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful and extremely rare circa 1900 Portsmouth, New Hampshire Electric Railway Conductor hat badge numbered 2The convex, brass hat badge reads: "CONDUCTOR PORTSMOUTH ELECTRIC RY" and shows the number: "21" in the center, the lettering and...

ARTIFACT: This is a great early 1900s badge for the Claremont (Street) Railway & (Electric) Lighting Company in Claremont, New Hampshire. The railway's passenger service ended around 1932 and freight service continued until sometime in the 1950s. The...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1970s-1980s trainman hat badge for the Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ, or Balgarski Darzhavni Zheleznitsi), in operation since 188The central device of the badge is the side view of a railroad car wheel. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: 1962 Limited Edition: "The Switzerland Trail of America" by Forest Crossen. This Limited Edition, 1st Edition is signed by the author and is #3433 out of #4000 printing. The book illustrates the history of the Colorado and Northwestern...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1931 copy of the "Rules for the Government of the Operating Department" for Boston and Maine Railroad, a dominant New England railroad company dating from 183The pocket-sized book has some examples of blank forms, all...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1927 hardcover copy of "The Principles of Railroad Transportation" by Emory R. Johnson, Ph.D.". Johnson was a professor on this topic at University of Pennsylvania and held various other academic posts. The book is...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful 1920's Mount Washington Railway Company (B & M RR) Travel Brochure issued by the Passenger Traffic Department and features the Mount Washington Cog Railway. The front displays a color image of the railway winding up through the...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s or World War II employee photo identification badge for the New York, New Haven & Hartford (N.Y., N.H. & H.) Railroad. The N.Y., N.H. & H operated from 1872 until 196The badge was issued to a worker at the company's...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautifully enameled souvenir badge from the 1927 American Railway Association (ARA) meeting held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This badge was for the Signal Appliance Association, a part of the Signal Section of the event, a very...