"J" Builders Plates

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Sorry about leaving off my name, I sometimes forget to add my name,
figuring the computer will put it in the heading.

Here is a post I put up a few years ago; 2004:

From: Ronald Peisker <
Date: Fri Aug 20, 2004 01:33:29 PM US/Central
To: N&W MAILING LIST < nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Subject: N&W ARTIFACTS

While this Forum is on the subject of builders plates, I thought I
would add this comment.

When my brother and I were driving thru Portmouth, Ohio in 1958, we
noticed a scrapper right next to the N&W was scrapping steam
locomotives. In 1959, my brother and a friend drove down (Chicago
area) to Portsmouth in my 1956 Studebaker, and purchased as much as
they could fit into that vehicle.

They got the following BP's (At $1.00 each) #268 (Y6 - 2120 - Sept
1936 - 1st of Y6 series.), #279 (A - 1208 - May 1937.), #394 (Y6b -
2191 - Nov 1950.), and #411(S1a - 213- Oct 1951.). The bell off of
Y3 - 2073 and a Clinchfieid top mounted bell of unknown origin, at
$75.00 each. My brother requested, and they did torch around the
Pile National Headlight on "J" 605 and took the marker lights off of
606, all at $75.00. Those BP's were already gone. The last item was
an air horn. He had his eye on a N&W whistle, but worried about the
car springs. When everything was loaded it looked like the the
Studebaker would "Bottom out".

After he got home, we thought about renting a truck, driving down,
and loading it up, but sorry to say we never got to do that.

I have that roughly cut out section of 605's nose (~32" dia.) mounted
on the wall in my basement shop along with the markers. It's a shame
he could not have gotten the whole nose mounted on top of that
Studebaker. BP's are relatively easy to copy, and I have done this
with these and other BP's, but headlights and marker lights are
almost impossible to copy. I'm in the process of making a copy of
the bell off of 2073, but that's for a future email.

Ron Peisker



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