Re: [CBQ] Re: SD24 Questions

[Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@worldnet.att.net>]

HOL WAGNER wrote:
> Norm:  Please post:
>  
> While this specific question will not be directly addressed in the 
> upcoming Bulletin on the SD7/9/24s, I will state here for your 
> information that the plates you refer to are definitely the equipment 
> trust plates, one above the builder's plate on each side of the unit.  
> Rectangular stainless steel plates about an inch shorter than the EMD 
> "football" plates, they had etched backgrounds painted black, and thus 
> slightly raised stainless steel lettering.  It would have read 
> APPROXIMATELY as follows:
> CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD
> EQUIPMENT TRUST NO. 2 OF 1959,
> FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK,
> TRUSTEE, OWNER AND LESSOR. 
> The trust number may not have been 2, and the bank may not have been 
> First National City Bank, though that is who I recall carried the trust.
>  
> Hope this helps.
>  
> Hol Wagner
> 
>    >     Bryan Howell wrote:
>      > No, I am very familiar with the model plates.  The plates in
>     question are directly above the oval EMD plate.  I'm wondering if it
>     is in fact a trust plate, but all of the photos I've found thus far
>     show the entire locomotive and do not sow details.  I'm wondering if
>     the next bulletin about the SDs might have the answers I'm looking for.
>      >  Bryan J. Howell
>      > tubaman21@yahoo.com <mailto:tubaman21@yahoo.com> 
>      >



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