J #604 builders plate

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Jimmy
    K2 Would have had the regular Alco Brooks rectangle plate, K2a Would 
have a regular 9 1/4 Baldwin
round plate. Some that I have seen were chromed but not all of them may have 
worn off  like  most of the
Js did.

Larry Evans
Kenova,WV


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Any particular reason they moved them?

Mike Weeks
Greenville NC


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Same as on the J's - Just below the running board, directly in line with its 
former location. You had to get your head pretty close to the cylinder and 
look up behind the skirt to see it. Helped if it was a sunny day. On the K's 
at least, there was a little space between the smokebox and the running 
board that let a little light shine down and help you read the plate. My 
father and I made the discovery by accident one day when we were at the 
roundhouse and just happened to look up at a K2 which was between the 
turntable and the Bluefield shop building. After that, we looked up the same 
way at the 611-613 and discovered they had been built with plates in this 
location.   Jim Nichols



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"About 1950, N&W started moving the builders plates on the J's, K2's and 
K2a's to just below the running board."



Can someone tell me exactly where that location was on the K2/K2a's and what 
did it look like?

Jimmy Lisle





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