BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS Oval Builders Plate F.3. 5-1901 19053 Exclnt Cond Brass For Sale

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Up for your consideration is this Baldwin Class plate. These plates were primarily used by the Pennsylvania RR and a few other roads in that era. The term class plate comes from the F3 in the center which was the class of locomotive the plate was on. Pennsylvania RR required the plates on their engines to carry that info so Baldwin cast it on the plate for them. Class F3 had a wheel arrangement of 2-6-0 which simply meant it had a pair of leading trucks or wheels, 6 driving wheels (3 per side) and no trailing wheels. The 19053 is Baldwin’s serial number for the particular locomotive that the plate came off of. They kept records of every locomotive they built starting with serial number 1 way back in the 1830’s. And the 5-1901 is the month and date of build, so the locomotive that plate came from was built in May of 1901. According to a database of all the serial numbers, Serial number 19053 was made for the Pennsylvania RR and became their locomotive #455. As one of the smaller locomotives on the PRR, it didn’t see any main line passenger service or anything glamorous like one of the PRR’s Broadway limited name trains or anything like that. Its main task would have been branch line service.

The numbers stamped on the back are an additional Baldwin code denoting Baldwin’s class of locomotive. The 8 designates the total number of wheels on the locomotive so you just ad up 2+6+0 and you get the 8. The 34 is a classification number they used in record keeping and is believed to be the cylinder diameter. The “D” is how many drive wheels it had. B=2 C=4 D=6. And the 108 is the sequence number so in the “8-34 D” class of locomotive they built, it was the 108thengine built. The other numbers just above that code are casting pattern numbers.

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