Spring 2025 Locomotive Builders Plate Sale/Auction
Western Railroad Americana is pleased to announce our Spring 2025 Locomotive Builders Plate Sale/Auction. A curated collection of locomotive builders plates from both Western and Eastern railroads.
The Sale/Auction? Which is it? It is both. Please take a few minutes to read how this sale will be handled.
It is a sale if only one person wants the item. It is an auction if more than one person wants the item.
If there is a bidding situation, we will accept bids in $25 increments. Everyone gets a call back and the bidding will continue until the other person bows out. Please help us complete this part quickly by being accessible via phone or email. If only one person is interested in an item then the call back will be simple and the transaction completed.
The Sale/Auction starts today! Feel free to look over the catalog, request additional photos, ask questions, etc.. and then submit your bid.
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We are going to let the auction phase run until next Saturday, April 19th at 8pm MST. All bids need to be in by this time.
After that the sale phase will start and anything left will be available on a first come, first served basis. And YES, we are always open to offers and trades. The goal is to find these items new homes.
These are cash prices. Feeless payment services, cashier’s checks, personal checks if we know you, or cash are acceptable payment methods. If you want to pay with a credit card, then there is a 3.5% fee added to the total purchase price.
No buyers premium!
Shipping and insurance is billed at actual!
All of these railroad antiques come with the Western Railroad Americana 100% satisfaction guarantee. To learn more, please visit our Terms and Conditions.
Once again, thank you for your interest in our Spring 2025 Locomotive Builders Plate Sale. Feel free to Contact Us with any questions, concerns, or even criticisms.
Now onto the photos and the good stuff! Additional photos available upon request.
Sincerely,
Erik Wightman and Jason Sanford
The Catalog
The Auction portion is CLOSED. The remaining plates are available now. Feel free to make an offer.
Item-01
Anaconda Copper Mining Company. G.E. Electric Locomotive Schenectady. Construction number 4255. Built 1913. Road number #4255. Excellent condition with one, little divot along the bottom edge near the left-hand side. One caveat about the road number: there were three units built that year so it could be one of the other numbers but from the provenance we think it is road number #4255.
Price: $1,500
Item-02
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Company, Burnham Williams and Co. Construction number 19425. Built September 1901. Class 2-6-0, road number #579. Excellent curvature and extra bolt holes from the road.
Price: $1,200
Item-03
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Company, Burnham Williams and Co. Built October 1906. Class 2-6-2, road number #1812. Large Manhole Cover style plate!
Price: $1,400
Item-04
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Construction number 51861. Class 4-6-2, road number #3415. Very nice condition with good curvature. Bolt holes slightly enlarged.
Price: $800 (SOLD: $1,625)
Item-05
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Company. Construction number 51117. Built January 1919. Class 2-8-2, road number #3233
Price: $1,200
Item-06
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Construction number 59830. Built February 1927. Class 2-10-2, road number #3935.
Price: $1,400
Item-07
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. General Motors/EMD. Construction number 2592. Built January 1945. Class FT A unit, road number #162C. Was later renumbered road number #189C. Warbonnet passenger unit!
Price: $800 (SOLD: $1,375)
Item-08
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. General Motors/EMD. Construction number 2347. Built March 1944. Class FT B unit, road number #141C. It was later renumbered to road number #162B and then finally #188B. Warbonnet passenger unit.
Price: $800 (SOLD: $1,275)
Item-09
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Fairbanks Morse. Construction number 12L-1602. Class H12-44, road number #520. Brass plate. Excellent condition and beautiful patina.
Price: $900
Item-10
Baldwin Locomotive Works. Front number plate from steam locomotive #20. Measures about 14-1/4″ across. Good condition with a couple of older holes on the backside and a little wear around 4 and 5 o’clock. Unfortunately, the hub is ground down off of the back so we cannot tell what engine this plate was off of.
Price: $300 (SOLD: $1,625)
Item-11
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Construction number 55718. Built December 1922. Class P-6 4-6-2, road number #5231. Very good shape with one, little ding along the bottom edge which is very smooth. This may be a flaw in the casting? A fatigue stress on the front face. About 11 3/8″ wide at the widest point. A popular locomotive from one of the railroad’s name trains.
You can see a photo of the locomotive here…
https://westernrailroadamericana.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/BO-P6-5231.jpg
Price: $2,500 (SOLD: $4,425)
Item-12
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Construction number 55999. Built January 1923. Class 2-8-2, road number #4487. About 11-3/8″ wide at the widest point. Very good condition.
You can see a photo of the locomotive here:
https://westernrailroadamericana.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/EF-Lemon-BO-4487.jpg
Price: $1,500
Item-13
Bangor and Arostook Railroad. Alco Schenectady. Construction number 73055. Built February 1945. Class 4-8-2, road number #109. Very good condition and no issues to note. This was the last engine constructed in its class of 10 total mountain class locomotives built for the railroad.
Price: $1,500 (SOLD: $1,525)
Item-14
Bay Point and Clayton Railroad. Burnham Williams and Co. Construction number 31305. Built July 1907. Class 0-6-0, road number #2. Originally built for the Cowell Portland Cement Company but was delivered to the Bay Point and Clayton Railroad. A standard gauge railroad that moved finished product from the mill to interchange with both the Southern Pacific Railroad and Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The Bay Point and Clayton Railroad had a total of six locomotives. Two of them were class 0-6-0 and other four were class 0-4-0T mining locomotives. With only eight miles of track, this is a rare opportunity and a treasure from an almost never seen railroad!
See a photo of the engine here:
https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/19799
Price: $1,500 (SOLD: $1,500)
Item-15
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. General Electric. Construction number 5033b-1. Built January 1916. Class Boxcab Unit, road number #E22C. Unit was painted in the passenger yellow, red, and grey livery.
Price: $1,500
Item-16
Frisco. Alco. Construction number 76870. Class FA-1, road number #5311. Excellent condition.
Price: $600
Item-17
Great Northern Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Construction number 51486. Built March 1919. Class C-1 0-8-0, road number #838. Very nice condition.
Price: $500 (SOLD: $500)
Item-18
Great Northern Railroad. Red white Rocky logo from an EMD F-unit. Very good condition with the original bend.
Price: $1,700
Item-19
Kennecott Copper Mining Company. General Electric Locomotive. Construction number 10868. Built May 1929. Class 85 ton electric locomotive, road number #724. An amazing matched set from one of the world’s largest open pit copper mines in Utah.
You can see a photo of the locomotive here:
https://westernrailroadamericana.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/KCC-724.jpg
Price: $4,000
Item-20
Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad. Alco Books Works. Construction number 44751. Built December 1907. Class 2-8-0, road number #31. Very nice condition with a little ding along the left-hand side. otherwise really nice with no holes or repairs. The majority of the Las Vegas and Tonopah locomotives were made by Baldwin, with only four units being made by Alco. The four units being one class 4-6-0 and three class 2-8-0. This makes this a very hard plate to come by from this famous Nevada shortline!
Price: $2,000 (SOLD: $2,100)
Item-21
L.E. Meyers Company. Porter. Construction number 6768. Built 1923. Class 0-4-0 14×22. Operated on the L.E. Myers company out
of Kentucky. Standard gauge railroad. Very good condition.
Price: $500 (Current Price: $875)
Item-22
Longview Portland and Northern Railroad. American Locomotive Company, Richmond Works. Construction number 66919. Built May 1926. Class 2-8-2, road number #1400. Plate is in very good condition. A very hard to find plate from a railroad that rostered very few steam locomotives during its existence. A rare Oregon and Washington shortline builders plate.
Price: $1,500 (SOLD: $4,150)
Item-23
Louisiana Eastern Railroad. Front number plate from a class 2-8-2, road number #13. Plate is in very good condition. Measures about 16-3/4″ across. The locomotive was named the “Shiloh”.
You can find additional information about the locomotive here:
https://www.meridianspeedway.net/louisiana-eastern-story.html
You can see a photos of the locomotive here:
https://westernrailroadamericana.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Louisiana-Eastern-13.jpg
Price: $1,500 (SOLD: $1,500)
Item-24
McCloud River Railroad. Alco Schenectady works construction number 66435. Built September 1925. Class 2-6-2, road number 25. There is one small fatigue stress along the bottom that goes through the backside. More of a small hairline. Cast iron construction plate from a very desirable road that ran around the Mt. Shasta California area that hauled lumber and forest products. A rare California shortline!
Price: $3,000 (SOLD)
Item-25
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Construction number 21910. Built October 1957. Class FL9, road number #2024. Nice hot dog builders plate.
Price: $800
Item-26
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Alco General Electric Schenectady. Construction number 69732. Built March 1942. Class DL109, road number #0706. Brass plate in excellent condition. Of special note is this unit was one of the units that led the Boy Scouts of America excursion train. Proud Eagle Scout here that has served me well.
Price: $2,000 (SOLD: $2,000)
Item-27
Northern Pacific Railroad. Baldwin, Burnham Williams and Co. Construction number 29861. Built January 1907. Class L9 0-6-0, road number #1053.
Price: $1,000
Item-28
Northern Pacific Railroad. Alco Brooks. Construction number 61230. Built May 1919. Class G1 0-8-0, road number #1171.
Price: $1,000
Item-29
Northern Pacific Railroad. Alco Brooks. Construction number 41959. Built 1907. Class 2-6-2, road number #2415. Later renumbered road number #2454. This was originally classified as a T class and was later reclassified as a T1 class.
Price: $1,000
Item-30
Northern Pacific Railroad. Baldwin, Burnham Williams and Co.. Construction number 20471. Built May 1902. Class S4 4-6-0, road number #1377. Large manhole cover style plate.
Price: $1,400
Item-31
Northern Pacific Railroad. American Locomotive Company/General Electric. Construction number 79332. Built November 1951. Class S4, road number #715.
Price: $750
Item-32
Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Schenectady Works. Construction number 49091. Built November 1910. Class 4-6-0, road number #132. Very nice condition and from a great railroad!
Price: $1,200 (SOLD: $1,200)
Item-33
Pennsylvania Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Construction number 73864. Class DS4-4-1000, road number #9251. A nice 5-sided Baldwin plate.
Price: $500 (SOLD)
Item-34
Southern Pacific Railroad. American Locomotive Company, Cooke works. Built November 1920. Lesile Rotary Snowplow, road number #715. One small dimple along the bottom. edge close to the right side. Noted for accuracy. Very nice condition. An amazing piece of Southern Pacific Sierra mountain snow fighting history!
Price $1,500 (SOLD: $2,775)
Item-35
Southern Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific de Mexico Railroad. Baldwin, Burnham Williams and Co. Construction number 29145. Class 0-6-0, road number #1141. Started life on the Southern Pacific and eventually made its way to the Southern Pacific de Mexico. Plate is in fair condition with fatigue stresses along the face that do not affect the structural integrity of the plate at all, noted for accuracy.
Price: $500 (SOLD: $575)
Item-36
Southern Pacific Railroad. Baldwin, Burnham Williams & Company. Construction 30285. Built February 1907. Class 2-8-0, road number #2549. Very nice condition. A nice Southern Pacific consolidation that were used system wide.
Price: $700 (Sold: $850)
Item-37
Southern Pacific Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Construction number 54479. Built March 1921. Class P8 4-6-2, road number #2474.
Price: $1,750
Item-38
Southern Pacific Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Construction number 61433. Built 1930. Class GS-1 4-8-4, road number #4409. The Golden State class GS-1’s. Amazing curvature. Bolt holes are slightly enlarged. An amazing piece of Southern Pacific history from the locomotive that was the precursor to the GS series Daylights. A rarely seen plate with only 10 built for the Southern Pacific Railroad in this class!
Price: $2,500 (SOLD)
Item-39
Southern Pacific Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Construction number 51933. Built June 1919. Class F-1 2-10-2, road number #3639. Very nice curvature. Appears to have a small mold flaw that does
not look like damage near about 7 o’clock and one small casting hole around 4 o’clock.
Price: $600 (SOLD: $600)
Item-40
Southern Pacific Railroad. Baldwin construction number 62047. Built 1937. Class AC-7 cab forward 4-8-8-2, road number #4172. Very good condition. A very nice mallet from the Sierra mountains.
Price $1,300 (SOLD: $1,300)
Item-41
Southern Pacific Railroad. Alco construction number 77049. Built March 1950. Class S-2, road number #1414. Excellent condition. A nice little switcher engine.
Price: $300
Item-42
Southern Pacific Railroad. Baldwin Lima Hamilton. Construction number 75917. Built 1953. Class S-12, road number #2149. Excellent condition.
Price: $400 (SOLD: $400)
Item-43
Union Pacific Railroad. General Electric. Construction number 33208. Built September 1958. Union Pacific ‘Big Blow” gas turbine locomotive, road number #2B. Very large plate. The famous Big Blow locomotives operated between Council Bluffs, Iowa and Ogden, Utah. There is a set of these locomotives preserved at the museum in Ogden, Utah.
Price: $1,200 (SOLD: $2,375)
Item-44
Union Pacific Railroad. Alco Schenectady. Construction number 68945. Built August 1937. Class Challenger 4-6-6-4, road number #3936. Later renumbered to road number #3836. A beautiful plate from one of the most beautiful locomotives to roam the transcontinental railroad between Utah and Wyoming.
Price: $3,000 (SOLD: $3,000)
Item-45
Virginia and Truckee Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Works replica souvenir front number plate from Virginia and Truckee Railroad locomotive #11, “The Reno”. These were little souvenirs handed out many years ago at the famous Bucket o’ Blood Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada. Measures about 4-1/8″ across. A cool piece of history from the historic Comstock city! Would look great on a book shelf.
Price: $100
Item-46
Western Pacific Railroad. Alco Brooks Works. Construction number 45693. Class 4-6-0, road number #82. Beautiful condition. A beautiful plate from an early Western Pacific passenger locomotive. Feather River Canyon, Keddie Way!
Price: $1,000 (SOLD: $1,550)
Item-47
Western Pacific Railroad. Baldwin, Burnham Williams and CO. Construction number 29348. Built October 1906. Class 2-8-0, road number #11. Excellent condition.
Price: $700 (SOLD: $1,275)
Item-48
Western Pacific Railroad. Morrison Knudsen Company. Construction number 33060. Class GP-40, road number #3515. Rebuilt in Boise, Idaho. The engine later went to the Union Pacific Railroad during the merger becoming road number #664. Very good condition. About 13 7/8″ wide at the widest portion.
You can see photos of the locomotive here:
https://westernrailroadamericana.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WP-GP40-3515.jpg
https://westernrailroadamericana.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/up664.jpg
Price: $1,000
Item-49
Western Pacific Railroad. Alco Locomotive Works. Construction number 77020. Built February 1950. Class S-2, road number #562. Excellent condition and great paint!
Price: $400 (SOLD: $775)
