This is ACTUALLY why the L&N doesn’t stop here any more…

[Oro_O]

It’s because my dad steals their stuff (or did). LoL.

Title is an obvious allusion to a classic folk song (Cash didn’t write it, but he made it big), I always loved the Michelle Schocked version from the late ‘80s:



But the reason it came up today is the inner tie-rod removal tool was slipping and not working so I fetched this serious wrench out of one of the tool cabinets (kicked it in one whack with the hammer). Then I noticed the engraving. LoL.

My dad was an apprentice and then machinst at the Louisville Roundhouse from ‘65 to ‘69. So I know where he got it. . The L&N don’t stop here any more because they got tired of my dad stealing their tools.

 

[CharBaby]

I have a mini version of that wrench from my Dad's tool box. It's not the same quality but it is similar in its look. I'll have to dig it up.

 

[Oro_O]

I have a mini version of that wrench from my Dad's tool box. It's not the same quality but it is similar in its look. I'll have to dig it up.

I think the brand on that is Diamond, it’s on the handle and I looked but now I can’t recall exactly. The horseshoe and diamond in the picture back that up. Apparently they were big, early hand-tool manufacturers and still have a presense as Swanstrom (just googled that, I’m not an expert on this).

It holds the dialed diameter extremely well, and with that and a 2lb maul you can break anything loose. LoL, it just occured to me my dad’s mauls are so old and unique, they probably came from the same place. I’ll take some pics of them tomorrow as we need to try to press out/in some trailing arm bushings on the rear of the car before the alignment…

 

[PF52]

I've got a sledgehammer marked with the initials of the AT&SF Ry., better known as the Santa Fe which is now part of BNSF. No other identification on it though, so I don't know who made it.

 

[Oro_O]

I've got a sledgehammer marked with the initials of the AT&SF Ry., better known as the Santa Fe which is now part of BNSF. No other identification on it though, so I don't know who made it.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Always liked that name.

My maternal grandfather was a long-time engineer for the Southern. I read a lot of railroad history & such as a kid. Even incorporated some into a thesis in college (Florida East Coast RR and development of south Florida).