Railroad Cap Badge, Brakeman, Southern Pacific Railroad
notes: label: Description
content: This metal cap badge reads “BRAKEMAN” in silver-colored skeleton letters. The badge has two posts protruding from the back that allowed it to be affixed to the uniform cap of a railroad employee who served aboard passenger trains. This badge identified the wearer as a brakeman on the Southern Pacific Railroad. The Southern Pacific Railroad ran throughout the southwest United States, opening in 1865 and operating until 1996 when it was taken over by the Union Pacific Railroad. The brakeman’s duties included moving from car to car to trigger the brakes and slow the train, dropping cars at stations, lining switches, and signaling to crew members about train operations.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Railroads
label: Subject
content: Adornment
label: Subject
content: Travel
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Railroad
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Work
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content: Transportation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.333722
label: catalog number
content: 333722
label: accession number
content: 304341
objectType: label: Object Name
content: railroad cap badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 9.2075 cm