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Hello fellow O Gauge members , I have 17 inch brass bell off of steam locomotive I inherited for my grandmother Donna Glafkey. Her former husband , Glenn Glafkey was part owner of a company that cleaned out oil cars for standard oil refinery.. the company was located at the Pullman train yard in Richmond California off cutting Blvd. The building now is tradewind carpets Warehouse.  Through the years in business. Glenn collected many locomotive items .( Write about other items in future post )  on top of the Bell reads " 630 D 409 ".   One hundred& eighty degreeIMG_20211013_121156_437s  from first stamping reads. " ?  DD  40 or 10.   The last digits I wrote have small chisel marks over them to cross them out? Possibly  mounted on 2 engines ?

If anybody can shed some light on the subject would be greatly appreciated .

Steven P. Smith

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The important numbers here are the Baldwin code, 6-30-D-409.  that means 6 total wheels, 30 means cylinder size. divide 30 by two and add three, gives you 18 inch cylinders, D meant three drive axles, and 409 is the 409th ingine built to these specs. So it's a 0-6-0 with 18 cylinders, When I get a minute, I'll see if I can find what the 409th one was.

It was built for Nevada Consolidated Copper Co, in Oct 1909, part of 4 unit order (409-412) and burned soft coal. Those are Baldwin sequencial numbers, not railroad road numbers, It might possibly be an 0-6-0T, I found  two of those were built for that company, the first one was road numbered 336 the other 337, but coudn't find anything on the two others, these show built in 10-09, but sometimes built dates and delivered dates varied by several months.

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