MP Equipment Trust, Chemical Bank Owner/Lessor

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  • November 13, 2015 at 5:49 pm #5400
    Thomas Nagy
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    Need information on mentioned sign. I remember these metal signs being on the sides of MP Diesels. Upper hood area ?

    Actual Location
    Brief History
    What Diesels had them ?
    Any photos of Diesels with signs ?

    Thanks,
    Dean Knopp

    December 27, 2015 at 8:16 pm #7651
    evangeline.higgins
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    Dean, I have one of those Trust Plates that I picked up at a train show somewhere. It is stainless steel, 7″ X 26″ X .050″ thick. No idea what engine it came off of. I have a number of photos of MP diesels in blue. A couple show them mounted on the side sill on the engineers side at the rear of the locomotive. Many just have a place where you can tell that it was removed. Just a rectangular place on the side sill with no paint. I can take a photo of the plate and post if it will help.

    Bill Herbert

    January 1, 2016 at 2:12 am #7677
    princessclyne69
    Participant

    I might have a photo or two of these trust plates mounted on an engine, specifically F units. On geeps, they were on the side of the frame, but on the F units they were just above the bottom rivet strip. One photo I have shows one located next to the builder’s plate, probably on a B unit.

    They seemed to have been taped over when the unit was painted. Perhaps there was a black background on them on etched portion when they were new, but twenty years of washing rendered them plain stainless.

    Related note: I believe the forty GP9s were the only MoP engines to have the stainless etched model number plate. Is there any evidence that other units had them?

    Ron Merrick

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