CPR Fairbanks Morse Diesel Builder's Plate

When Canadian Pacific Railway discontinued their transcontinental passenger service, they sold most of their inventory through their 'CP Bygones' shop opened in the mid 1970's.  This seller purchased this plate directly from CP Bygones and has stored it for over 35 years.  

This is a CLC (Canadian Locomotive Company) set of plates from CPR 'B' unit #4471 (see photo #3).  Unit #4471 had serial #2728 and was built in 1954 and retired in July 1971 and then converted to Robot Control Car #1009 (Robot-9) in July 1972.  Photos 3-5 show the unit in service with the various CPR paint schemes.  Locomotive photos courtesy (and permission obtained from) mountainrailway.com <http://mountainrailway.com>

The diamond shaped plate comes complete with the 'Powered by Fairbanks Morse' bar plate. Both plates are in very good shape but appear to have been painted in black while in service as you can see the results especially on the back of the plate (see photo #2).  I did not attempt to remove any the paint but can be done easily. The plates are made of heavy sheet aluminum with stamped-in data.   

These plates are exceedingly rare to locate.  

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