Recently I recall seeing an ad in a fan magazine advertising the availability of replica Pullman berth keys. Our Museum would like to purchase a few, in the event our berth key for the "Lotus Club" would ever get misplaced. Can anyone provide the contact details? I would be most appreciative. Many thanks!

K.R. Bell
RR Museum of PA

http://rrmuseumpa.org

Kurt,

You might be amazed at what well-trained locksmiths can reproduce. I've had a locksmith replicate CN coach keys and EMD E8 cab door keys--in my choice of brass or steel. I even had one locksmith able to cut a key to operate an old Adlake railroad switch lock ("But I won't--the railroad is still using those locks, and you don't work for them, so....."). It sounds like a set of those keys would be a welcome and refreshing challenge for the good locksmith, as opposed to fifty house-key duplications each day.

lner4472@bcpl.net

Alexander,

Pullman berth keys are not like casement lock keys or even like old sytle lock keys. But rather they are a device that goes into the circular recess on the face of the upper berth and engages the prongs and when turned allows the Porter, etc. to release the berth latches.

I too, would like to know who can supply these "keys."

Brian Norden

> You might be amazed at what well-trained
> locksmiths can reproduce. I've had a
> locksmith replicate CN coach keys and EMD E8
> cab door keys--in my choice of brass or
> steel. I even had one locksmith able to cut
> a key to operate an old Adlake railroad
> switch lock ("But I won't--the railroad
> is still using those locks, and you don't
> work for them, so....."). It sounds
> like a set of those keys would be a welcome
> and refreshing challenge for the good
> locksmith, as opposed to fifty house-key
> duplications each day.


bnorden49@earthlink.net

DAWX is a source, $50 each; plus lots of other "stuff".

> Recently I recall seeing an ad in a fan
> magazine advertising the availability of
> replica Pullman berth keys. Our Museum would
> like to purchase a few, in the event our
> berth key for the "Lotus Club"
> would ever get misplaced. Can anyone provide
> the contact details? I would be most
> appreciative. Many thanks!

> K.R. Bell
> RR Museum of PA


D A Walmsley
oldtimetrains@rrmail.com

I've made these keys before. Did not try to make them look exact, as they were for our own use. Anyone with a lathe and a mill can make keys that look identical if they want to. I'd personally make buckets of them for the below listed price of $50 each. They don't take THAT long to make!
Mark D.

> DAWX is a source, $50 each; plus lots of
> other "stuff".