My neighbor who is in the antiques and automotive sign business brought me a very heavy steam locomotive plate. I have not been able to identify what type of locomotive that it would go to. Can the vast Trains.com universe identify and match up the locomotive that it would be associated with? Thanks!
http://www.delawarerailroad.com/plate.jpg
Call this an educated guess, but it looks to me like a Pennsylvania Railroad tender ID plate. The 6007 may be the tender's construction serial number or the number of the engine to which it was mated. The 70P66 would indicate 7000 gallons of water, Passenger type with a 66" deck. If I am right, that would indicate a smaller passenger engine, say a 4-4-2 or even a 4-4-0. If I can track this down a little better, I'll edit this reply.
Edit: With a little more searching I found the 70P66 class tender was assigned to class E6 and K2 engines. The number 6002 was worn by an E2 Atlantic, which may well have been equipped with a 70P66 tender, but I can't confirm that. BTW the 66" deck refers to the height above the railhead of the fireman's floor of the tender. That, of course, would correspond to the height of the floor of the cab, which varied from engine class to class. A Decapod had an 82" firing deck and the J class was even a bit higher at 84."
This link has a diagram of a tender similar to the one being discussed above.
http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=tnd70p66.gif&sel=tnd&sz=sm&fr=
Dave Nelson
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