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Perki88
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Perki88 asked in Cars & TransportationRail · 9 years ago

What is the origin of the train conductor's cap?

Why it's unique shape and where did it originate?

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  • Samurai Hoghead
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Excellent question, and I can only speculate as to the origins.

    It was a part of the uniformed service and still is. In as much as at one time the conductor was referred to as "captain," perhaps the origin was mimicking seafaring captain's chapeau. I know that at one time on the SP, all crew members, including enginemen, wore caps with their occupation on brass badges worn around the hat-band.

    So... you're now only two cents closer to an answer...

  • kigar
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Train Conductor Cap

    Source(s): https://shorte.im/a0GOm
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Like a hard workers .

    Thank you.

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