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PRR 5898 Herald. Locomotive classification on the Pennsylvania Railroad took several forms. Early on, steam locomotives were given single-letter classes. As the 26 letters were quickly assigned, that scheme was abandoned for a more complex system. [1] This was used for all of the PRR's steam locomotives, and — with the exception of the final ...
The Baldwin DR-12-8-1500/2 (known informally as the Centipede) was the Baldwin Locomotive Works ' first serious attempt at a production road diesel locomotive. The Baldwin type designation was 'DR-12-8-1500/2, ' meaning D iesel R oad locomotive, with 12 axles (8 of which were driven), and two engines of 1,500 horsepower (1,100 kW) each.
Pennsylvania Railroad 1737. Pennsylvania Railroad 3750. Pennsylvania Railroad 4800. Pennsylvania Railroad 4859. Pennsylvania Railroad 4876. Pennsylvania Railroad 4877. Pennsylvania Railroad 4935. Pennsylvania Railroad 5550. Pennsylvania Railroad 6755.
The Pennsylvania Railroad voluntarily preserved a roundhouse full of representative steam locomotives at Northumberland, Pennsylvania in 1957 and kept them there for several decades. These locomotives, with the exception of I1sa #4483 which is on display at Hamburg, New York, are now at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg ...
The Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 is a class of streamlined electric locomotives built for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), in the northeastern United States. The class was known for its striking art deco shell, its ability to pull trains at up to 100 mph, and its long operating career of almost 50 years. Between 1934 and 1943, General Electric and ...
The ALCO FA was a family of B-B diesel locomotives designed to haul freight trains. The locomotives were built by a partnership of ALCO and General Electric in Schenectady, New York, between January 1946 and May 1959. Designed by General Electric's Ray Patten (along with their ALCO PA cousins), they were of a cab unit design; both cab-equipped ...
A preserved S-12 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. 625 rpm max. The Baldwin S-12 or BLH S12 was a 1,200- horsepower (890 kW) diesel-electric switcher locomotive. Utilizing a turbocharged 6-cylinder version of the powerful 606A diesel prime mover, S12s were known for their "lugging" power, despite being temperamental.
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) class T1 duplex-drive 4-4-4-4 steam locomotives, introduced in 1942 with two prototypes and later in 1945-1946 with 50 production examples, were the last steam locomotives built for the PRR and arguably its most controversial. They were ambitious, technologically sophisticated, powerful, fast and distinctively ...