"J" Builders Plates

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Thanks, Ron.


Sam Putney

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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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