Southern California Railway Museum - Rare Linecasters

[Dave Hughes]

It looks like the Southern California Railway Museum has several containers of linecasting machines they are looking to find a new home for.

They include three Intertype Fotosetters and mats, a special low-height machine for use on ships, a machine from 1890 and more!

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[Dave Hughes]

More details of this huge collection of machines is emerging. Jim Gard has posted some great photos of the collection on Flickr:

Sky Shipley has attempted to list the machines found in these eight shipping containers:

Forgot to mention that Sky Shipley made a nice list of the machines at the Southern California Railway Museum as found stored in the sea-cargo containers from right to left:
Ludlow, Model unknown (not shown on plate), s/n 12309
Linotype Model 29, s/n 54662
Linotype Comet, s/n 3765
Linotype Model 15, s/n 19645
Linotype Model 8, 42-em, s/n 47155
Linotype Model 5, s/n 20192
Linotype Model K, s/n 1
Linotype Model 8? partially dismantled, s/n unknown
Linotype Model 31, 42-em, s/n 70118
Linotype Model 31, 42-em, s/n 69L007 (sic)
Nebitype
Intertype Model C4, s/n 35023
Linotype Model 33, s/n 53098
Linotype Model K, s/n 1646
Linotype Model X, s/n 735
Intertype Model A, s/n 457
Linotype Model 18, s/n 24345
Six Linotype or Intertype machines, tarped, unidentified and virtually inaccessible
Intertype Model C4, s/n 25213
Intertype Model G4, s/n 32907
Intertype Model ?  s/n 6664
Intertype Model ?
Intertype Model W, s/n 13375
Linotype, German-made, s/n 7865
Linotype Model 48 (British-made?), s/n 10943
Intertype Fotosetter
Intertype Fotosetter
Intertype Fotosetter
Linotype Model APL

Yes, that's three Intertype Fotosetters!