OIL CREEK & TITUSVILLE RAILROAD CONDUCTOR HAT BADGE

Description

OIL CREEK & TITUSVILLE RAILROAD CONDUCTOR HAT BADGE. Unused condition. Carefully shipped via USPS with tracking information. Please see photographs. Two fasteners included.
According to Wikipedia,
The Oil Creek and Titusville operates over tracks that were originally built as the
main line
of the
Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad
in the 1880s; trackage in
Titusville
was originally owned by the
Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad
.
The Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia was reorganized in 1887 into the
Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad
, which was eventually acquired by the
Pennsylvania Railroad
in 1900. The Pennsylvania was merged with the
New York Central Railroad
in 1968 and became
Penn Central
. In 1976, Penn Central went bankrupt, along with several other railroads, and was combined into
Conrail
.
In 1986, the line was acquired from Conrail by the Oil Creek Railway Historical Society, with the first tourist trains running on July 18; freight operations began on September 25, 1986.