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Posted by MarknLisa on Friday, September 22, 2017 4:15 PM

@ Southwest Cheif, Cool!

I saw a Minnesota plate this week that just said "TRAIN".  Though I suppose it could be a dedicated athlete. 

 

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Friday, September 22, 2017 1:00 PM

My new car displays the license plate frame a lot better:

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Posted by Paul3 on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 10:57 PM

A friend of mine had BNSF here in Massachusetts, but gave it up when he moved to New Hampshire.

Another friend has had AMTRAK since 1971, and I ran across a Vermont AMTRAK up at White River Jct., VT on the car of the Amtrak ticket clerk.

Yet another has "NHRR" for New Haven Railroad, and one in Connecticut has EP5 370 (a New Haven electric EP-5).

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Posted by HI IRON on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 1:49 PM

My personalized licence plate is HI IRON. I have had it for at least 20 years and I got the idea from the steam powered excursion trips sponsored by The High Iron Company back in the 70s and 80s.  

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Posted by Ron Hill on Thursday, May 25, 2017 8:59 PM

MarknLisa

What railroad themed licensed plates do you own, have you seen or heard of? Today in downtown Minneapolis I saw a black Telsa with Wisconsin plates: FE EQUUS 

 

 

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Posted by K4sPRR on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 8:08 PM

For over twenty years I've had Ohio plate "K4S PRR" which currently is on my 99 Wrangler TJ.  One of my older plates is on license display wall at the Station Inn in Cresson PA.  Cost is about 80 per year to have a personalized plate in Ohio.

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Posted by penncentral2002 on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:38 AM

I used to have those plates on my car- I had the standard plates with the CJ number which I believe they have run out of - now they reside in my license plate collection and my car has Virginia's light house plates. 

I believe that Virginia has another plate with railroad subject matter - I am pretty sure that the James River Park system plate shows the CSX/former Atlantic Coast Line bridge over the James River - https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/vehicles/#splates/info.asp?idnm=JRPM

 

The trails around the James River can indeed lead to some very good views of that bridge - Pump House Park which also features the former steam pump house for the City of Richmond and canal locks is a particularly cool location along the park system.

Those might be my next plates

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Posted by Maine_Central_guy on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 7:53 AM

I have seen CRRONJ ,too! in altoona pa.

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Posted by Boyd on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 12:11 AM

I remember looking at an application for a Minnesota personal plate about 30 years ago. It was $100 then and is now at least $200. On the application you have to explain the meaning of the wording you are seeking. 

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Posted by morseman on Sunday, May 21, 2017 3:28 PM

 The Ontario licence plate on my Honda Accord is  AMTRAK 1    Someone else in  Ontario had  AMTRAK   so I had to go for #1

   Thanks for mentioning South West Chief         I'm the Sunset Limited'                   At the end of 2019 I will have completed traversing the complete Amtrak      system      Only five more short routes to cover.

   

 

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Posted by NEAL LUTYENS on Thursday, May 18, 2017 1:25 PM

Having lived in Illinois, New Mexico and Arizona I have had three different license plates.  Ill,was RR NUT, NM was, RAILFAN and AZ was FE HORS

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Posted by PETER H ORMSON on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 9:09 PM

NM offers a Cumbres & Toltec plate with a very well done silouette of a locomotive and consist along the bottom

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Posted by dmitzel on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 1:12 PM

Bruce Kelly

The late Jim Boyd, editor of Railfan & Railroad magazine, had NJ plates that read "RAILFAN." (R&R originated as Railfan magazine, later becoming R&R after absorbing Railroad magazine.)

 

 

I'm not in NJ but have the Great Lakes State covered.

Helps let the authorities know I'm not a threat when trackside.

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Monday, May 15, 2017 11:09 PM

Here's mine (For Amtrak train #3...the westbound Southwest Chief):

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Posted by SRQ Sid on Monday, May 15, 2017 9:38 PM

Since "TRAIN" was taken in Massachusetts, I had "TRAIN1" for years. Lost it when I became a Florida resident. Sniff.

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Posted by fordv10 on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 1:47 PM

My plates are SD 90 on Illinois route 66 plates.

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 12:34 PM

Sunnyland
very interesting, I have not seen any, but I don't drive far from my neighborhood, I'll have to look when I'm traveling with friends who do highways or on road trips. 

You might have, and did not realize it.  F'rinstance, "8223NYC" or "NYC999" or even "BLINER" might not be significant to you, but I'd pick up on them immediately.

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Posted by Sunnyland on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 11:35 AM

very interesting, I have not seen any, but I don't drive far from my neighborhood, I'll have to look when I'm traveling with friends who do highways or on road trips. 

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Posted by smph50 on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 5:43 AM

For over 20 years and three different trucks my New York plates read "PRR 4483"

I'm a life member of the WNYRHS, owner of the last I1sa Decapod.

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Posted by SPdave on Monday, May 8, 2017 11:26 PM

SP Passenger Train Historian and firend Jeff Cauthen had SP 27, the number of his favorite SP train the Overland

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Posted by Wake_Hoagland on Monday, May 8, 2017 5:13 PM

The image is the 1928 Grif Teller calendar painting "When the Broad Way Meets the Dawn", which was the first calendar painting Teller did for the PRR. He went on to paint 27 out of the total 33 scenes for PRR calendars. The original oil painting now belongs to the Railroad Museum of Pa., which is how the image got to be selected for license-plate usage. The scene shows the eastbound Broadway Limited meeting the first rays of a sunrise in the Juniata Valley west of Harrisburg, Pa., on the PRR's four-track Middle Division main line. A portion of the extra fees motorists pay for these specialty plates goes toward state historic preservation programs, though not specifically earmarked for the RMofPa.    

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Posted by GERALD A EDGAR on Monday, May 8, 2017 3:48 PM

At our BRHS meets there are always some mbrs with plates relating to the Burlington.  Either NH or VT is the only state to allow use of an '&' (or so I was told) & a mbr has CB&Q on his plate; others use CBQ, Zephyr, etc.

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Posted by usmc1401 on Friday, May 5, 2017 7:30 PM

In San Luis Obispo CA saw ALCO 251 about twenty five years ago.

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Posted by spsffan on Friday, May 5, 2017 1:19 PM

I used to have SPSFFAN meaning Southern Pacific Santa Fe Fan. That one went to the junk yard with my 91 Jeep Cherokee and I didn't want to keep paying for it at the time. 

Some years later, when buying a new car, I found that I couldn't get that back, as it was listed as taken by the DMV (probably by me, but who knows). So now I have SPSFMAN. I wash the new car by hand, but back with the old one, the guy at the carwash would always say, " Hi Sports Fan!" I let it go. 

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Thursday, May 4, 2017 9:02 PM

This is a link, but I doubt if you can acquire a plate without owning a PA registered vehicle - though you could contact that PennDOT unit and ask:

http://www.dmv.org/pa-pennsylvania/apply-for-special-license-plates.php 

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Posted by zugmann on Thursday, May 4, 2017 8:05 PM

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Probably all states sell vanity license plates, because that's what we're talking about. I envy Pennsylvanians who apparently have a Grif Teller painting available to them.

Virgina has a 611 plate.  They sell them as souveniers to hang on your wall if you want. https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/vehicles/#splates/info.asp?idnm=JLOC

 

Maybe you can a Grif Teller one from PA as well.  I can't find a link to do so, though.

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by NKP guy on Thursday, May 4, 2017 7:51 PM

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Where can you find a railroad themed license plate?

 

   Probably all states sell vanity license plates, because that's what we're talking about.  I envy Pennsylvanians who apparently have a Grif Teller painting available to them.

   Go to your state's BMV website and investigate.  I've often thought of ordering NKP RR or ERIE RR or NKP 765 or even NYCSTL, but my current vanity plate is already something else.

   So spend a few extra dollars and enjoy yourself. 

   How about NO HUNTR or POOR CSX ?

   

 

 

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Posted by ATSFGuy on Thursday, May 4, 2017 6:37 PM

Where can you find a railroad themed license plate?

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Posted by zugmann on Thursday, May 4, 2017 6:07 PM

Paul_D_North_Jr
The Pennsylvania "Preserve Our Heritage" series of license plates has what looks like a Grif Teller painting of a PRR (note the Keystone-shaped number plate in the middle of the smokebox) rushing toward the viewer on a triple (or more ?) track main line. The plate numbers all start with "RR" as in "RR XXX" (see image below):

Was never a fan of them.  But I was never a Grif Teller fan, either.  Just not into his style of artwork.

My license plate is a combination of letters and numbers.  Although my front license plate has a cartoon on it (shocking, huh?)

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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