Beautiful Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad Reproductions of Early Engineer badges. Chrome with inset raised lettering. Measures a whopping 1-3/4" in diameter. Correct lettering fonts thank's to the hard work of Sam Towler and Steve DeGaetano. Comes with broach style pin back. Available to Disney Railroad Discussion Board members for $22.95 each, post paid. You can pay via Paypal by entering my email address on the Paypal site:
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Only 160 of this first run are currently available. These pins were not produced nor are they affiliated in any way with The Walt Disney Company. For background on the original pins please ask Steve DeGaetano. I have only seen the one original pin available on Ebay some time ago.
Thank you!!

OUTSTANDING! Simply a great item.

Thanks Bill!!!

No, Thank you, Roger!!

Hey Bill, can you pm me so I can order some of those beautiful badges for the guys at the DRR?
Thanks,
Dog

Wow, I thought I was looking at the original photos! They came out very nice!

Bill, simply OUTSTANDING. My compliments to Sundance.

Dog and others, just by way of background, in 1955 these pins were, in fact, given to the engineers on the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad. Of course, there were only four or five qualified engineers on the line then. So actual pins are exceedingly rare.

Bill, did you really see one on eBay?

The only way I know about these is because a lady out in CA was doing some geneology research, and had heard that her grandfather was one of the engineers on Opening Day. She e-mailed me about him. I didn't have that roster at the time, and said I didn't know (turns out he was). But she did send me a couple blurry photos of her grandfather's engineer badge. It was clear enough that Sam was able to replicate everything. I asked the lady for dimensions, and her brother gave me a caliper measurement.

With some tweaking of an existing font, Sam recreated the font around the border, and we used some period references for the "Santa Fe" and "Disneyland" fonts. Lots of credit goes to Sam for getting everyting "just right."

This is the result.

Compare: Repro:


Original:

These are fantastic.
Another big hit
Outstanding job Bill

Just to be clear, I have another photo that shows the original was in fact very shiny chrome. The photo above doesn't do the original justice, but it showed the lettering more clearly for preparing the artwork.

The pins are probably about as large as a silver dollar.

I always wondered what the thing was on the side of Harly Ilgen's hat. Mabye now we know.

Wow those came out very nice! I'm transferring the cash to my Paypal as I write. Exciting to see these after I just found out that I will be back on the line in two weeks. Can't wait to be back behind one of Walts engines at full steam. Looking forward to seeing you guys out there for the return of No. 4 and I guess Star Tours too.