Railroad and Steamboat badges

The California Transportation Company was owned and operated by Captains A. E. Anderson and A. Nelson
and ran steamboats on the surrounding rivers of the San Francisco Bay. The California Transportation Company eventually merged with the Sacramento Navigation Company and the Fay Transportation Company and became the River Lines Company in 1930.

The California Transportation Company operated steamers: PRIDE OF THE RIVER, ONWARD, CONSTANCE, AURORA, SONOMA, RELIEF, IPELTON, SANTA MONICA, ALVIA, ONISBO and the ECLIPSE; barges: ORIENT, CENTENNIAL, STOCKTON, MANILLA, BESSIE, MINNIE, ANNA, YUKON, and the dredge RYDE.

Wharfs: Brannon, Grand Island, Isleton, Martinez, Rio Vista, and Walnut Grove, along with Walkers Terminous and Duttons landings.

$5,500 Sterling silver State Police #4 California Transportation Co. badge worn by policemen who protected life and property on the steamships the company operated.

Railroad and Steamboat Police 662 California Southern Pacific Co. Made by Irvine & Jachens 1027 Market St.
S.F. Sterling and dated 12-30-19.

$4800 Railroad Police 789 Oregon Southern Pacific Co. Made by Irvine & Jachens 1027 Market St.
S.F. Sterling and dated 8-14-20.
5-43 E.A.J.

$2,300 N.W.P. Railroad Police 25 Police.
Made by Irvine & Jachens 1027 Market. St. S.F.

$4,100 Railroad Police 107 Arizona Southern Pacific
Made by L.A. Rubber Stamp Co. Los Angeles CAL.
March 20, 1880: The first Southern Pacific train reaches Tucson, Arizona

$4,100 Railroad and Steamboat Police 33 California The Western Pacific R.R. Co. Made by Irvine & Jachens 1068 Mission St. S.F.

$5,100 Railroad Police 66 Nevada The Western Pacific R.R. Co. Made by Irvine & Jachens 1068 Mission St. S.F.

1936 Stockton City Directory

OAKLAND TRIBUNE
April 20, 1959

Railroad and Steamboat Police 653 California Southern Pacific Co. Made by Irvine & Jachens
1027 Market St. S.F.
Worn by Charles Henry Dailey
Sterling and dated 12-30-19.

Charles Henry Dailey was born in Aughrim, Magherafelt, Londonderry, Ireland on the 12th of October 1899. He immigrated to the United States and arrived in Seattle, WA on September 16, 1921.
He died April 18, 1959 in San Francisco.

Los Angeles & Salt Lake Rail Road Co. #81 Police badge.
Circa 1916.

Central of Georgia Railway, Special Agent 1st issue badge made by American Railway Supply Co. New York.

A note from Chip Greiner: Central of Georgia Railway Special Agents worked plain clothes and the large 5 point (first issue ARS) ball tip star was unpopular. Most of them got cut down by the Agents. The regular railroad police force (non Special Agent rank) wore a smaller 5 point star.

Railroad Police 787 Oregon Southern Pacific Co. Made by Irvine & Jachens 1027 Market St.
S.F. Sterling and dated 8-14-20.

Union Pacific R.R. Special Police Badge #1

$4,100 Napa Co. Deputy Sheriff S. F. & N. V. R. R. badge made by Ed Jones Co. Oakland, CAL

Southern Pacific Railroad and Steamboat Police California. Made by irvine * Jachens 1068 Mission St.S. F. and dated 12-21-26. STERLING. Not for sale.

Sacramento Union 12 December 1906

$4500 Ocean Shore Railway Co. Police badge #4 made by Paul P. Bernard & Co. San Francisco. The Ocean Shore Railway was a railroad built between San Francisco and Tunitas Glen, and Swanton and Santa Cruz that operated along the Pacific coastline from 1905 until 1921. The route was originally conceived to be a continuous line between San Francisco and Santa Cruz, but the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, financial difficulties, and the advent of the automobile caused the line to never reach its goals, and remain with a Northern and Southern division.

Key System - incorporated 1902 as San Francisco Oakland & San Jose Railway, opened 1903, merged with San Francisco & Bay Counties Railway in 1908 forming San Francisco Oakland & San Jose Consolidated Railway. In 1912, San Francisco Oakland & San Jose Consolidated Railway was merged with the Oakland Traction Co.,forming San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways.

$5,500 Rail Road Police
San Francisco Oakland and San Jose Ry. shield, made by Moise-Klinkner Co. 417 Market St. S.F.

$12,000 State of California Railroad Police S. F. O. & S.J. Ry. No. 7 Steamboat Police.

These first 4 badges shown are among the rarest of the California railroad and steamboat police badges for collectors to obtain.

$4,100 Western Pacific R.R. Chief Special Agent badge.Made by Moise-K S.F.

1905 San Francisco City Directory

$4,100 Los Angeles & Salt Lake R.R. Co. No. 39.
Hallmarked Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Co.

$2,200 Southern Pacific railroad Hat badge. Sterling silver. Irvine & Jachens STERLING.

$450 Southern Pacific Lines hat badge.

$11,000 1st issue Southern Pacific Co. Railroad Police “O” Steamboat Police, Hallmarked Ed Jones 916 Broadway Oakland, Ger. Silver. 1906, 1914. Oakland Station.

No Longer Available

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