While looking through the Museum's collection of relics from the 309, I found this brass plate that was badly warped, presumably by the 1971 fire. It's been in the collection for so long, I don't remember exactly how I came across it in the first place.
It's a cast brass builder's plate for the Stanwood steps that the 309 has always been equipped with. There are fragments of the light green paint for the interior walls.
| THE Q&C STANWOOD STEP PAT.NOV.13,1890 JUNE 1,1892 RAILWAY APPLIANCES CO. CHICAGO --- NEW YORK |
(Size: 2" x 4")
Some of the steps have a couple of holes in the top back plate that would be just right for mounting one of these castings. But that doesn't explain how it came to be painted light green, or why it was in the fire.
3 comments:
Perhaps it was inside the car because it had been removed for cleaning and repainting before the fire?
As to the paint...were the steps originally black, or green like the rest of the car?
Perhaps the car was delivered with the sign on the steps, but then for some reason (lawsuit?) they were moved to somewhere in the interior of the car to be more visible to patrons. O Anderson
Good suggestions, I'm afraid we'll never know. It's impossible to tell the difference between Pullman Green and black from B&W photos, and the plate is so small that I can't tell from any available picture whether it was there. I guess I just posted that hoping to make you guys miserable. :)
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