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[smod19]

Anyone know what this is? And how old it is?

 

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[Mud Hut]

It is a button cover .. either railroad or trolly related from the early-mid 1900's

 

[Gene Mean]

Very nice find. Railroad button. More info surely to follow.

 

[Gene Mean]

It is a button cover .. either railroad or trolly related from the early-mid 1900's

I see, so that back would slip over a plain flat button?

 

[Mud Hut]

I see, so that back would slip over a plain flat button?

Yes sir.

 

[Lenrac2]

That is super cool!! Congrats!!

 

[The Rebel]

RR for sure. Trolley operators were called Motormen.

 

[Mud Hut]

RR for sure. Trolley operators were called Motormen.

That is true for the most part. However, some street trolleys in bigger cities pulled light freight cars which needed a brakeman riding on the car to keep them from punching their way through the back of the street trolley when stopping.

I remember as a kid in Baltimore, some of the street trolleys were not passenger trolleys.