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Posted by gbs on Tue Nov 22 07:50:15 2022, in response to Re: [PHOTO] randyo, Where Art Thou ?, posted by randyo on Tue Nov 22 07:12:17 2022. Your posts are always interesting and informative, but sometimes hard to read because they are so dense. I took the liberty of creating paragraphs, which makes the post more readable: Another piece of info relative to train crew uniforms is that the badge number were coded by number with IND badges started with a number 1, BMT badges started with a number 3 and IRT badges started with a number 6. Wh the gaps between the starting numbers I never found out. The original IND M/Ms’ badges were the same design but did not have numbers at all. Another oddity is that BMT and IRT badges had the division stamped under the number but the iND badges did not. By the time I started as a C/R in 1966, the TA seemed to have abandoned the diviaion number codes probably in anticipation of the BMT/IND Chrystie merger since my C/R badge started with a number 1 even though I was on the BMT and my M/M’s badge started with a number 7 which didn’t fit any of the previous patterns at all. In late 1966, the TA started issuing uniform caps and new badges to all the plat C/Rs although I did manage to retain my original punched tin C/R badge. Even after thetA designed better looking badged for its C/Rs and Bus operators, the M/M’s badge was still the punched tin type. Also while, the official TA uniform code required the badge to be attached to the cap, for some reason it was BMT tradition for the M/M to not wear badges and in all my years of railfanning I never saw a BMT M/M with one. In keeping with BMT tradition even after the merger, I considered myself a BMT M/M ans so never wore mine either. There were also two types of M/Ms’ caps allowed. One was a black silk cap looking like a cross between a fisherman’s cap and a C/R cap and the other was the traditional RR style cap that was supposed to match the stripes of the rest of the uniform. I opted for the RR style cap and preferred the 2 tone one with the blue peak and striped top I believed originated by the Kromer Klean Kloth Kap Company, at one time a well known manufacturer of RR apparel. |
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