In my youth I ‘ahem’ obtained a locomotive builder’s plate from the locomotive graveyard in the Fair Haven yards of the New Haven Railroad. It had a corner broken off, so I never did anything with it other than haul it around for fifty years.
I got to thinking that maybe 3d printing offered a way to repair it. But first I looked up some of the history. It looks like this may be the last loco of it’s class delivered to the New Haven railroad in 1944.
619 Alco S-2 DEY-5 9/1944 72756
DEY-5 – Alco S-2
A turbo-charged version of the S-1, they were also used in both yard duty and on local freights. Like the DEY-3s, the cab was slightly shorter and ‘flatter’ than the Alco standard for clearance in the electric zone.
At some point in 1944 (during the second and final New Haven deliveries) Alco changed from horizontal side radiator louvers to vertical louvers as on their other switchers and road switchers. New Haven locomotives #0600-0608 had horizontal side radiator louvers.
Paint Schemes
Delivery: The then-standard switcher scheme of Pullman Green with Dulux Gold lettering and black frame.
Late ’40s Scheme: Hunter Green Cab with Warm Orange on the back of the cab and the entire hood except a small Hunter Green fillet on bottom of hood at the cab. Black underframe. Warm Orange script herald on cab.
I designed the repair in Fusion 360, blended it in with some epoxy resin, and painted flat black. It’s presentable now.
