07-13-2010, 07:53 AM
The origin of the Kromer Railroader's Cap is described at the Kromer site. It is my understanding that Ida Kromer made the first one using a fabric used to make bed pillows called Ticking, a striped medium weight cotton material. I was originally used for pillows due to is weight and propensity to keep the sharp points from goose down from sicking through the fabric.
I have seen railroaders wear the "boxy" Ticking one, as well as the red and the blue polka-doted ones. These memories go back to the late '40's/early '50's when I was "a wee small boy," whose grandfather would take for a walk to the train station in East Stroudsburg, PA to watch the steam engines come through.
I have seen railroaders wear the "boxy" Ticking one, as well as the red and the blue polka-doted ones. These memories go back to the late '40's/early '50's when I was "a wee small boy," whose grandfather would take for a walk to the train station in East Stroudsburg, PA to watch the steam engines come through.
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln