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ATTENTION : THIS BADGEIS OBSOLETE AND COMPLETELY DEFUNCT. THE AGENCY IT REPRESENTS NO LONGEREXISTS. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, ST PAUL& PACIFIC RAILROAD (C. M. ST. P. & P) OPERATED UNTIL 1996, WHEN ITMERGED WITH THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY TO FORM THE BNSFRAILWAY. THIS BADGE IS IN FULL-COMPLIANCE WITH POLICY ON POLICE BADGES,AND IS MORE THAN 75 YEARS OLD, IS OBSOLETE, OR NO LONGER USED. IT MEETS ALL REQUIREMENTS AND BEARS NORESEMBLANCE TO ANY BADGE CURRENTLY IN USE.
Upfor sale is one Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Police LieutenantBadge , with Minnesota State Seal. Thisbadge is hallmarked C H Hanson Co, Chicago.The badge measures 3 inches top to bottom, and 3 inches side toside. This is a very heavy and beautifulbadge in excellent condition.
TheGreat Northern Railway (reporting mark GN) was an American Class I railroad.Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the creation of19th century railroad tycoon James J. Hilland was developed from the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad.The Great Northern\'s (GN) route was the northernmost transcontinental railroadroute in the U.S.
GNchanged little in the modern era — from the 1920s through the 1960s — apartfrom the industry-wide migration from steam to diesel. On July 1, 1901, GN andNP jointly purchased more than 97 percent of the stock of the Chicago,Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) to ensure a connection between St.Paul and Chicago. GN and NP backed construction of the Spokane, Portland &Seattle Railway (SP&S), a line to Portland, Oregon, from Spokane; SP&Sin turn sponsored the construction of the Oregon Trunk Railway from Wishram,Washington on the Columbia River, south to Bend, Oregon. GN got another routeto Portland by acquiring trackage rights on NP from Seattle.
Hillsoon acquired control of NP with the intent of merging GN, NP, CB&Q andSP&S into a single railroad. As a start, he formed Northern Securities as aholding company, but the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) quickly ruledagainst such a merger. In 1927 the GreatNorthern Pacific Railway was incorporated to merge GN and NP and lease SP&Sand CB&Q. The ICC approved the merger upon the condition that GN and NPdivest themselves of the CB&Q — a condition the two Northerns wereunwilling to meet.
More than four decades passed before the mergerwent through on March 2, 1970 — with the CB&Q included and indeed half thename of the merged company, the Burlington Northern Railroad (BN). BN operated until 1996, when it merged withthe Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway to form the BNSF Railway.
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