Railroad Cap Badge, Brakeman, Great Northern Railway
notes: label: Description
content: This silver metal cap badge bears the engraving “G.N.RY.L./BRAKEMAN” filled with black paint. This badge would have been worn by a brakeman on the Great Northern Railway Line, which operated from St. Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington from around 1890 until 1970. The badge identified the wearer's crew position for passenger convenience, identifying the crewmember the passenger could speak with if there were questions, problems, or complaints. 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: Travel
label: Subject
content: Adornment
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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.334029
label: catalog number
content: 334029
label: accession number
content: 309861
objectType: label: Object Name
content: railroad cap badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 4 1/16 in; 3.175 cm x 10.31875 cm