Locomotives and trains in this edition include:
◊ Pennsylvania Railroad 3678, a Class K-4s Pacific (4-6-2) built in 1918 at Pennsy’s Juniata Shops, is running light at the New York and Long Branch Railroad’s Bay Head Junction, NJ engine terminal on December 1, 1956. Pennsy had 425 of these superb locomotives, designed primarily for passenger service.
◊ February 20, 1966 was new vehicle delivery day. Electromotive Division has just delivered three brand-new six-axle SD-40’s to the Pennsy. They were built in LaGrange, Illinois and delivered to Chicago. These engines, in fact all of the SD-40’s, would be assigned to Enola, Pennsylvania for maintenance; this placed all of them in the pool for main line operations.
◊ Pennsylvania Railroad 6306, a Class L1s Mikado (2-8-2) is on the point of a southbound freight rolling through Hagerstown, Pennsylvania, on March 21, 1956. The first “Mike” was designed and built by Pennsy’s Juniata Shops in 1914, and four more test locomotives followed. Once the pattern was set, the Juniata Shops, in concert with the Lima and Baldwin Locomotive Works, began construction of 574 identical Class L1s locomotives. When the work was completed in 1919, Baldwin had built 205 units, Juanita constructed 344 units, and Lima made 25 units.
◊ Pennsylvania Railroad engine 5706, one of two EMD E8-A’s, is leading combined Trains #6 and #74, The Allegheny (a daily New York City to St. Louis train), seen here making a station stop at Dennison, OH on April 13, 1954.
◊ When the Great Northern Railway discontinued all its electric operations in 1956, the Pennsylvania Railroad purchased eight of its Class Y-1 motors. They were reclassified as Pennsy FF-2 Motors, and then they were renumbered from #1 to #7, with one motor, rebuilt after a wreck, held for parts to keep the others running. Here is Class FF-2 Motor #3, pans up, awaiting a call, crewman getting on board at Columbia, Pennsylvania, on July 22, 1950.
◊ Pennsylvania Railroad 6923, a Class M-1 Mountain (4-8-2) is helping a Class K-4 Pacific with a westbound passenger train at Horseshoe Curve, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1949. 6923 was one of 200 M-1 locomotives built in 1926 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and served for more than 30 years in fast freight and passenger service. Pennsy owned 301 M-1s and they operated system-wide.
◊ Pennsylvania Railroad 9838, a freshly painted EMD FP-7, is on a westbound passenger train at Altoona, PA waiting for a helper to be added for an assist over Horseshoe Curve to the top of the hill at Gallitzin, PA on July 20, 1957. 9838, one of 40 FP-7’s on the Pennsy roster, measures four feet longer than the F7 freight model to allow for the inclusion of a steam boiler needed on passenger train service.
◊ Pennsylvania railroad Class H10 Consolidation (2-8-0) 8686 is heading out of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, crossing the Susquehanna River with a local freight in tow on August 22, 1956.
◊ Pennsylvania Railroad 7183 is on an Enola-bound freight, crossing the Rockville Bridge at Marysville, Pennsylvania on September 5, 1964. Rockville Bridge, which was built in 1902, is 3,820 feet long and has forty-eight 70-foot spans crossing the Susquehanna River.
◊ Pennsylvania Railroad 1600, a Class E6s Atlantic (4-4-2), is leading three-car commuter train #685 on its last westbound run at Norristown, PA on October 4, 1953. Pennsy had 83 of these little speedsters, and most were used on the more level terrain of the eastern end of the system, typically in commuter service as is 1600 is in this view.
◊ Here is a Pennsy four-track main line. Three E8’s, led by 4282, are on a westbound passenger train leaving Harrisburg for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The two tracks on the left were only for freight movements, while the two closest to the photographer were for passenger trains.
◊ Pennsylvania Railroad Class GG-1 Motor 4928 is running light through the South Philadelphia Yard on December 2, 1967. That day, the Pennsylvania Railroad ran a special train carrying midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game being played at the city’s Municipal Stadium. 4928 is likely going to be serviced for the return trip.
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