Object Details
- Description
- This chrome-plated metal cap badge bears the engraving “BRAKEMAN” filled with black paint. This badge identified the wearer's crew position on passenger trains. The brakeman’s duties included moving from car to car to trigger the brakes and slow the train around turns or steep grades, dropping cars at stations, lining switches, and signaling crew members about train operations.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1996.0107.33
- catalog number
- 1996.0107.33
- accession number
- 1996.0107
- Object Name
- railroad cap badge
- Other Terms
- railroad cap badge; Railroad
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 3/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 1.905 cm x 9.2075 cm
- associated place
- United States: Maryland, Hagerstown
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Transportation, Railroad
- Clothing & Accessories
- Work
- Transportation
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Railroads
- Adornment
- Travel
- Record ID
- nmah_1180742
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-281a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
