Conrail Railroad Police badge Railway RR hallmarked (03/19/2011)

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Conrail Railroad Police badge Railway RR hallmarked

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Sold Date: 03/19/2011
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Transportation and Vehicles

ATTN EBAY: All badges are obsolete, defunct or are 75 years old or older, do not resemble a currently used badge and carry no law enforcement powers. They are for historical collecting and research purposes only.

This is a very nice vintage badge from the defunct Conrail Railroad (Consolidated Rail Corporation). The badge is 3-1/4" high by 2-1/4" wide and is in excellent condition. On the back it has a two piece pin with a burgess catch and an applied hallmark of: EDELMAN'S / FARMINGDALE N.Y . This would be an awesome badge for your collection and following is a brief history of the railroad:

The Consolidated Rail Corporation, commonly known as Conrail (reporting mark CR), was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeast U.S. between 1976 and 1999. The federal government created it to take over the potentially profitable lines of bankrupt carriers, including the Penn Central Transportation Company and Erie Lackawanna Railway. With the benefit of regulatory changes, Conrail began to turn a profit in the 1980s and was turned over to private investors in 1987. The two remaining Class I railroads in the east, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), agreed in 1997 to split the system approximately equally, returning rail freight competition to the Northeast by essentially undoing the 1968 merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad that created Penn Central. Following Surface Transportation Board approval, CSX and NS took control in August 1998, and on June 1, 1999, began operating their portions of Conrail.

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