Western Reading Lines Railroad Police Brass Badge

NOVELTY BRASS BADGE, for the "Reading Lines" railroad police. The badge is made of solid brass and has an antique finish. It measures 2 3/4 inches tall and 2 inches wide in the shape of a shield with a pin on the back. Reading Company (pronounced “Redding”), a name remembered mainly as a railroad, was in its heyday a multi-faceted industrial giant.