PA Railroad Police Badge

pa-dirt_nc-sand

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Only had a couple hours this weekend for an early am hunt. There was a spot off the local park trail I wanted to hit. The trail was an old run of railroad tracks at one point hauling coal.

Best find was a solid 16/16 on the Nox near the ruins.

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Cleaned up pretty good, heavy brass and what looks like a pin on back.

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Here is the rest from the site, a few wheats not shown and the Merc was a surprise.

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Does anyone have a good site for researching Pennsylvania Railroad Badges or Railroad police badges in general. Trying to get a date range on it.

Good luck out there!
 

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artyfacts

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Cleaned up nice, beautiful personal find. Very cool font embellishments on the word POLICE, good stuff.
 

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Pennsylvania Railroad Police
 

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love this badge,iam voting banner,its would be nice too see there.cool find.
brad
 

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That's a great find and a few Miner's Tags as well - very nice !
 

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Beautiful badge and great history. It really cleaned up nice. Congratulations to you.
 

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With all this anti -Police crap around us lately, its good to see a super find like that with appropriate wording. Bless our police, and that is one cool find !
 

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Hey I have an old timer who used to metal detect and he was in the railroad business for 40 years and this is what he said”THE POLICE BADGE IS ONE OF A KIND OF A KIND TO FIND. YOU DON'T SEE THAT AT ALL. THAT BADGE WAS A POLICEMAN FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY. THAT IS A GREAT GREAT FIND!!!” He really enjoyed seeing your picture which led to a two hour conversation about his life in the railroad business. I can tell you that the badge you found put a sparkle in the eye of a old timer and fellow detectorist. Congratulations on finding something very precious with him.
 

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pa-dirt_nc-sand

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Hey I have an old timer who used to metal detect and he was in the railroad business for 40 years and this is what he said”THE POLICE BADGE IS ONE OF A KIND OF A KIND TO FIND. YOU DON'T SEE THAT AT ALL. THAT BADGE WAS A POLICEMAN FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY. THAT IS A GREAT GREAT FIND!!!” He really enjoyed seeing your picture which led to a two hour conversation about his life in the railroad business. I can tell you that the badge you found put a sparkle in the eye of a old timer and fellow detectorist. Congratulations on finding something very precious with him.

That’s a great story! Thx for sharing.
 

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Congrats on a find that any detectorist would be thrilled with! So cool!
 

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