Some of my Christmas gifts, more railroad tools for my railroad display.
A 15 inch Bemis & Call metal handle monkey wrench, called the Railroad Special. This one is marked for L&N Railroad.
The top shovel is an Ames Husky that has been customized into a cross tie shovel marked C&EI RY (Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway.) The bottom shovel is a heavy weight marked SOURY (Southern Railway.)
This wrench is not marked, but an old gentleman who retired from the Southern Railway shops told me it was a shop made wrench, used by two men to remove the trucks from locomotives. The locomotive would move onto the pit. Two men would go under the locomotive. One man would hold the 18 lb wrench on the 5 1/2 inch nut over his head. The other man would strike the wrench with a 20 lb sledge. When the nut was loose, the holder would continue to hold the wrench up and walk around while the 2nd man turned the wrench. Sounds like rotator cuff surgery to me.
This one has a lot of pitting and will get the rust destroying black treatment.