Re: [CBQ] O-5-A Extra Order Builder's Plate

[Dale Grice <dfgrice@gmail.com>]

Might it be a superheater plate. I have a locomotive or two in my care that have rectangular superheater plates. I don't have a photo handy. However a google search for "superheater company plate" yields multiple images.

Dale Grice

in the snowy Atlanta suburbs;

where I question man's intelligence in the snowy Southern conditions (common sense is no longer common)

couldn't resist; pardon me.

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:52 PM, <LZadnichek@aol.com> wrote:

January 29, 2014

 

Hol Wagner, reference the West Burlington Shops image of the 5626, recently commented:

 

"Note the painted plate on the side of the smokebox.  I'd love to know what it says, but it is in all likelihood a Baldwin extra order plate, since Baldwin built and furnished the boilers of all the O-5-A's assembled at West Burlington.  The plate will be removed before the smokebox is graphited."

 

Hol, since the plate you mention on the 5626's smokebox is rectangular in shape, I do not think it is a Baldwin extra order plate. I have such a plate and it is circular in shape:

 

The above plate was removed from an O-5-A in the Galesburg Dead Line for my father who wanted one for his collection. I do not recall what locomotive it was removed from. Perhaps, someone on this List can identify the 4-8-4 from the plate's construction number.

 

Maybe, there was only one builder's plate on O-5-A locomotives and it was on the engineer's side. If so, then I, too, wonder what the rectangular plate was on the fireman's side of the 5626's smokebox?

 

I have gone through my picture archives of O-5-A's and I can see builder's plates on the engineer's side of the smokebox, but I can not see any on the fireman's side. Can anyone elaborate?

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL  

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