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  2. Pennsylvania Railroad K4 class - Wikipedia

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    The Pennsylvania Railroad K4 was a class of 425 4-6-2 steam locomotives built between 1914 and 1928 for the PRR, where they served as the primary main line passenger steam locomotives on the entire PRR system until late 1957. Attempts were made to replace the K4s, including the K5 and the T1 duplex locomotive.

  3. Pennsylvania Railroad 3750 - Wikipedia

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    No. 3750 decorated with black buntings to pull Warren Harding's funeral train. PRR 3750 was used to haul the Pennsylvania Railroad's mainline passenger trains such as the Broadway Limited. Despite the attempt by railroad management to replace the K4s with the K5 and T1, the K4s would remain in action until final dieselization in 1957.

  4. Pennsylvania Railroad 1361 - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania Railroad 1361 is a 4-6-2 K4 "Pacific" type steam locomotive built in May 1918 by the Pennsylvania Railroad's (PRR) Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It hauled mainline passenger trains in Pennsylvania and commuter trains in Central New Jersey on the PRR until its retirement from revenue service in 1956.

  5. Pennsylvania Railroad 1737 - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania Railroad 1737 was a 4-6-2 Pacific type K4 class steam locomotive built in 1914 as the first of its class and would haul heavier passenger trains that the smaller E class 4-4-2 Atlantics could not handle such as the PRR's flagship passenger train, the Broadway Limited.

  6. 4-6-2 - Wikipedia

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    The introduction of the 4-6-2 design in 1901 has been described as "a veritable milestone in locomotive progress". [3] On many railways worldwide, Pacific steam locomotives provided the motive power for express passenger trains throughout much of the early to mid-20th century, before either being superseded by larger types in the late 1940s and 1950s, or replaced by electric or diesel-electric ...

  7. John Wilkes (train) - Wikipedia

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    The Reading Railroad also offered a connection service from the Reading Terminal in Philadelphia to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Union Station. Trains running out of New York Pennsylvania Station were handled by Pennsylvania Railroad electric locomotives until Manhattan Transfer station and later in 1935, Newark Penn Station.

  8. Category:Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania Railroad K4 class; ... Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains/Locomotives task force This page was last edited on 2 January 2014, at 02:50 (UTC). ...

  9. Pennsylvania Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The first was for a new railroad called The Pennsylvania Railroad Company to build a line between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The second was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), which wanted to build to Pittsburgh from Cumberland, Maryland.