@oldpirate posted:Here is one set of a few I still possess from the 1989 Electro Motive Division (EMD) open house, La Grange,IL plant, if I recall correctly my Father (RIP) told me they were stamped from blank forged piston stock as I rember one could take as many as you wanted from the bins in the tour isles, he would bring blue prints for the locomotives he would be working on and tell me to study them, he was a welder/ fitter, not to mention the Locomotive builder plates he would give me, all in the garbage, very sad, if I only knew better back then, as a kid I went to the open houses as well as the Christmas open houses for employees and their families, miss that period of lost history,
I assume you've looked up what even those type of plates are going for now?
Reminds me of a guy I knew in Maryland, his Dad worked for the PRR and came home with dozens of steam builder plates, so many that they used them as 'stepping stones' to their front door. He showed me a blurry photo clearly showing them. He was off to college when his mother decided to get rid of them and she made his Dad throw them all into the trash bins. Not long before she passed, he told her how much they were going for by then and his mother said, "That was the dumbest thing I ever did, bar none!"
