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I just put up a steam locomotive bell at my farm/airport in North Central Florida. The bell was stored in an aircraft hangar for about 25 years. I brought the bell down from Ohio on a small trailer behind my car in the late 1980s. The bell had been stored in a shed behind my fathers garage for many years before. I remember putting the bell up in our backyard when we were kids in the 1950s. My father got the bell as a gift from one of his railroad friends at either the B&O or the Pennsylvania Railroad. My father was a industrial editor for the Youngstown Ohio Vindicator newspaper. He also loved trains,planes and Great Lakes steamships. He was a well known historian on those subjects. I am trying to find some of the history about the bell. The bell has several numbers on the frame and a stamped number on the top of the bell. The frame numbers are molded as part of the casting and are AX10872 on one side and number 120718 on the other side of the frame. The bell has the number stamped on the top 203. The bell itself is brass with a nickle like finish. The unit that holds the clapper has a pattent date of 1924 cast on it. My dad had said the the bell was from one of the largest steam locomotive ever made. The locomotive was probably scrapped in the late 1940s or early 1950s. If anyone could give me more imformation on the bell or where to find the imformation I sure would appreciate it. Flyinbell
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