A ball peen Sledgehammer ???

[Sudsy]

This thing is a beast as far as ball peen hammers go
Any idea what it was used for, Railroad perhaps ??
No markings
30" long
Almost 5 lbs

[amecks]

I don't know what its for but when I read the title I knew I wanted one!

[Yadda]

I don't know what its for but when I read the title I knew I wanted one!

+1

I have no use for it, but I would buy one at the right price.

[Sudsy]

$5
And damned straight that was the right price. I was on it like white on rice.

[Yadda]

$5
And damned straight that was the right price. I was on it like white on rice.

+1. 

[wvtools]

It might be a journal box hammer with an extra long handle.

[Bill Houghton]

Looks like it's worked pretty hard in its life.

[lptools]

What is a journal box hammer used for? Thanks, Lou

[wvtools]

Here is a blurb about what a journal box is.  I will have to look in The Hammer book.  Now I am beginning to think a journal box hammer had a curved cross peen on the one end.  I still have not found out what a journal box hammer does, but I have had some.

Journal Hook used in railroad work
Catalog #: 2002.0075.01, Accession #: 2002.0075
Currently on display
From the Smithsonian Collection
To check oil level in the journal boxes of railroad cars and locomotive tenders. Each journal box had a lid; the journal hook was used by a car inspector and/or oiler to pull open the lid, check for adequate oil level, fill with oil if needed, and close the lid. (The "journal box" held the axle bearing, made of bronze, at the outer end of a railroad-car axle. Hence there are two journal boxes per axle and pair of wheels, and thus four journal boxes on a typical four-wheel "truck" or "bogie (UK usage)" that supports each end of a railroad car on the track.

[wvtools]

I finally remembered what that hammer is, and why I was confused that it was a journal box hammer.  It is a railcar brake hammer.  I am guessing it had something to do with knocking the hose fittings together or apart but I am not sure.

[Sudsy]

Very cool, thank you.

Since we're on the subject of railroad hammers any idea what rail line these are from
Assuming they are spike hammers

[Sudsy]

Also this one, figure it's obviously British, but is it just a sledge hammer or is it a railroad hammer ?
What would the peen side be used for ?

[Sudsy]

And yes, I stumbled into a big score of hammers and a few axes
In the process of cleaning them up and rehanging them
Probably going to sell the railroad stuff

[mikeswrenches]

It looks like PRR which would probably be the Pennsylvania Rail Road. The logo looks like it's an Atha.

Mike

[Sudsy]

Atha ?

Old biddies probably couldn't even pick it up 
http://www.atharugs.com/