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Septenrber, 1951 NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN 301

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Fic. 90 C.V. - - -, tlat, 3/a diameter, has tin back. Tentative identification
(Cumberland Vallev RR)
Fie. 91 N C nickel, convex, 29132 diameter, marhed -{IfERICAN tl.Y SUPPLY
CO 24 PARK PLACE N.Y. (Northern Central Ry)
Fig. 92 P.C.C. & ST.L,R'Y around PH, brass and nickel, convex, 29/32 and 19/32
.WATER-
diameters, nark€d SCOVILI. MF'c CO WATERBURY also
BLiRY BUTTON CO also SCC,VILL MF'c CO. SMC tlate 1909 (Pan
Handle Route)
Fic. 93 \/ANDALIA LINE around VL, nickel, convex, 29/32 diameter, marked
.WATERBURY
BUTTON CO. Sl,ICi date 1914.
Fis. 94 P.W& B RRCOconvex (Philadelphia, Wilminston & Baltimore RR),
w B Co flle #s 233, 234 in brass. Probably before 18?3.
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FiC. 95 P ' & B nickel, convex, 19//32 diameter, marked AI\fERICAN RY
SUPPLY CO N.Y. (Philadelphia Wilmington & Baltinore RR)
FiS. 96 P B & W nickel, convex,29/32 and 19/32 diameters, marked AXIERI-
CAN RY SUPPLY CO 24 PARK PLACE N.Y. also AtrIERICAN RY
SUPPLY CO N.Y. (Philadelphia Baltimore & Washinaton RR)
Fig. 97 D M & \/ monog:ram, brass and Dickel, convex,29/32 diameter, marked
.wATERBUR'Y
WATEIIBURY BUTTON CO CT. Tentative identificdltion.
(Delaware Maryland & \tirginia RR)
Chartered in 1831 and completed in 1837, the Cumberland Valley
Railroad (X'ig. 90) is one of the oldest of the separately operated sections
of the system. The Pennsylvania RR obtained control about 1860, but it
was not until 1914 that the PRR took over operation of the CV's line from
Hanisburg to the West Virginia line. A merger of the CV into the PRR
came in 1919 to completely erase the CV from the current railroad picture.
The Northern Central Railway (Fig.91) was incorporated in 1855
and, like the CV, came under PRR control about 1860. In 1914 the PRR
also took over operations of the NC lines from Baltimore, Md. through
York, Harrisburg, and Sunbury, Pa. to Lake Ontario.
In the 1850s, there was a small line which called itself the Pan Handle
Railway. This nickname stuck to all its successors down to today. The
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railway descended from the old Pan
Handle as an operating railroad only to come under the PRR control at some
time prior to 1876. In 1890, the parent PRR felt that PC&SIL should merge
with several other roads which it had been operating. Thus was born the
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway, but railroad men would
not let the old nickname die, so the new company $/as still called the Pan
Handle (Fig. 92).
The first appearance in the writer's data books of the Vandalia Lines
(Fig. 93) is in 1892. At that time it was the common name for a group of
roads operated by the Terre Haute & Indianapolis RR management. The
TH&l itself was opened in 1852, but it came under PRR influence in 1872.
In 1905, the TH&I was consolidated with several of the roads it had long
operated as the Vandalia Railroad.