Re: CAN ANYONE HELP? What Are The Orig. LIMA SHAY Builders Plate Dimensions? (w/Pics)
| October 07, 2016 06:54AM |
Ted,
You are grossly misinformed. It would not be fair to the others reading this board to allow that misinformation to go uncorrected.
At the end of steam many mainline railroads saved the plates off the engines being scrapped and had them cleaned up and sold them to collectors for scrap value. That is why you see so many SP, NP and other such plates out there. Smaller railroads would also allow their employees and collectors to take jewelry of engines headed for scrap. Here is a shot of McCloud River RR #24 arriving in San Francisco to be scrapped. The McCloud let the employees remove and save the builder plates before she was shipped for scrap.
Your conclusion that all plates are either stolen or are fakes is anything but true.
As you are by your own admission not a plate collector you would not know these basic facts.
Martin
Ted miles Wrote:
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> Martin,
> Collecting builder's plate is the
> fastest way I know of to get into hot water.
>
> Either you are buying stolen property or more
> likely buying a fake of one sort or another.
>
> Sorry to pour cold water on you idea but that is
> the way I think.
>
> Ted Miles, San Francisco
>
> PS No I do not own a single plate; they belong in
> museums.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/07/2016 08:36AM by LOGGERHOGGER.
You are grossly misinformed. It would not be fair to the others reading this board to allow that misinformation to go uncorrected.
At the end of steam many mainline railroads saved the plates off the engines being scrapped and had them cleaned up and sold them to collectors for scrap value. That is why you see so many SP, NP and other such plates out there. Smaller railroads would also allow their employees and collectors to take jewelry of engines headed for scrap. Here is a shot of McCloud River RR #24 arriving in San Francisco to be scrapped. The McCloud let the employees remove and save the builder plates before she was shipped for scrap.
Your conclusion that all plates are either stolen or are fakes is anything but true.
As you are by your own admission not a plate collector you would not know these basic facts.
Martin
Ted miles Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Martin,
> Collecting builder's plate is the
> fastest way I know of to get into hot water.
>
> Either you are buying stolen property or more
> likely buying a fake of one sort or another.
>
> Sorry to pour cold water on you idea but that is
> the way I think.
>
> Ted Miles, San Francisco
>
> PS No I do not own a single plate; they belong in
> museums.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/07/2016 08:36AM by LOGGERHOGGER.
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