| Title: |
PRR 6468 Eastbound on the Pittsburgh-St Louis Main Line |
| Description: |
While waiting for the day passenger train for a return inspection trip back to his home base in Anderson, IN, my father, who was track supervisor on the PRR's Richmond Branch snapped this slide of a Pennsy Class J-1 behemoth. The J-1 class was Juniata built, but copied from a C&O design. It lacks the belpaire firebox / boiler commonly found on other PRR steam locomotives, and sports a keystone smokebox number plate instead of the round number plates found on most other classes of PRR freight locomotives. According to Dad, the J-1 was a water hog; even with that big tender, it had to be watered frequently. Dad also said the J-1 class tended to stay on PRR Lines West in the twilight years of Pennsy steam. All Pennsy J-1's were scrapped; none survive. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1956 Upload Date: 1/4/2010 7:03:44 PM |
| Location: |
Richmond, IN |
| Author: |
Maynard Krug |
| Categories: |
Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 6468(2-10-4) |
| Views: |
3790 Comments: 16 |
