N.Y., N.H., & H .R.R. SILVER PATINA TRAINMAN HAT BADGE - USED

Description

Old original New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad TRAINMAN hat badge. Stamped lettering with black enamel. Two silver color fasteners are included. Please see photographs. Carefully shipped via USPS with tracking information.
According to Wikipedia,
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
NH system map
Overview
Headquarters
New Haven, Connecticut
Reporting mark
NH
Locale
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New York
Rhode Island
Dates of operation
July 24, 1872–December 31, 1968
Successor
Penn Central Transportation Company
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft
8
+
1
⁄
2
in
(
1,435 mm
)
standard gauge
Length
2,133 miles (3,433 kilometers)
The
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
(
NH
), commonly known simply as the
New Haven
, was a railroad that operated in the
New England
region of the United States from 1872 to 1968, dominating the region's rail traffic for the first half of the 20th century.
Beginning in the 1890s and accelerating in 1903, New York banker
J. P. Morgan
sought to monopolize New England transportation by arranging the NH's acquisition of 50 companies, including other railroads and steamship lines, and building a network of electrified trolley lines that provided interurban transportation for all of southern New England. By 1912, the New Haven operated more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of track, with 120,000 employees, and practically monopolized traffic in a wide swath from Boston to New York City.
This quest for monopoly angered Progressive reformers, alienated public opinion, resulted in high prices for acquisitions, and increased construction costs. Debt soared from million in 1903 to 2 million in 1913, while the advent of automobiles, trucks and buses reduced railroad profits. Also in 1913, the federal government filed an antitrust lawsuit that forced the NH to divest its trolley systems.
The line became bankrupt in 1935. It emerged from bankruptcy, albeit reduced in scope, in 1947, only to go bankrupt again in 1961. In 1969, its rail assets were merged with the Penn Central system, formed a year earlier by the merger of the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad.