Vintage New York Central System New York Central Railroad Porter Hat Badge B37

  
VINTAGE NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD "PORTER" HAT BADGE. Please see photos for details. Note lighting variations may alter colors of item in photos. The New York Central Railroad reporting mark. Primarily operating in the Great Lakes. Regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York. In the east with Chicago. Along with the intermediate cities of Albany. New York Central was headquartered in New York City. S New York Central Building. Adjacent to its largest station, Grand Central Terminal. The railroad was established in 1853, consolidating several existing railroad companies. In 1968, the NYC merged with its former rival, the Pennsylvania Railroad. Penn Central went bankrupt in 1970 and merged into Conrail. Conrail was broken-up in 1999, and portions of its system were transferred to CSX. With CSX acquiring most of the old New York Central trackage. Extensive trackage existed in the states of New York. Plus additional trackage in portions of the Canadian provinces of Ontario. At the end of 1925, New York Central Railroad operated 11,584 miles (18,643 km) of road and 26,395 miles (42,479 km) of track; at the end of 1967, the mileages were 9,696 miles (15,604 km) and 18,454 miles (29,699 km). In 1914, the operations of eleven subsidiaries were merged with the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, re-forming the New York Central Railroad. From the beginning of the merger, the railroad was publicly referred to as the New York Central Lines.

In the summer of 1935, the identification was changed to the New York Central System, that name being kept until the merger with the Pennsylvania Railroad.