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
STM PWR
A friend has “NW611”.
I see a few of these Nebraska specialty plates in my travels around Fremont/Omaha/Council Bluffs.
http://www.up.com/aboutup/community/license_plate/
Jeff
Virginia used to have a specialty plate with the N&W 611 on it. The 611 is Virginia’s Official State Steam Locomotive, or some such title. Was tempted to get one those plates when we lived there, but never did.
I drive around with “IHB 2920” on my Honda.
Some of my co-workers have railroad plates, but maybe not as obvious to most.
One has “MZ ENGR” on her vehicle. One guy has “Unstoppable” (shortened to the maximum number of characters Iowa allows) which while referencing the movie, is actually due to an incident a few years ago.
One guy has “Kick Em” on his truck. The railroad relevance is probably more obvious to Ed, Zug and other working/retired rails on here.
Jeff
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.)
My plate is simply the four letters denoting a western class I. Most people in Michigan don’t have a clue.
Former co-worker has ‘TRN DSPR’
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):
- PDN.
My husband had when he was single ATSF 199 in IL in reference to one of their hottest TOFC trains when he was growing up.
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?)
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 ?
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.
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
- PDN.
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.
Cheers,
Dave
In San Luis Obispo CA saw ALCO 251 about twenty five years ago.
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.