Famous steam engine numbers....?

Well, the very first PRR K4s (Pacific or 4-6-2 wheel arrangement) was numbered 1737.  The preserved K4s locomotives are numbers 1361 and 3750.

 

George

quite a few famous engines.

611,1218,4449,700,614,4501,587,there's one other locomotive...number escapes me...get's mentioned on here once in a while....

460, 6755, 520

 

George

haha very funny.

The old "97."

 

Rusty

Don't forget 5344!

... and the 765 and 1225

 

Gilly

999

 

1111

 

Jeff C

#1 - Thomas the Tank Engine's number and another 0-6-0 to boot!

I know 1225 from The Polar Express...but can't place that other one...

6755,4483,39,35

Hi Mike:

 

Why not number it for an 0-6-0 locomotive that still exists which you could see in person?  Here’s a photo of PRR 0-6-0 #1670 that is preserved and on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.  It was built by the PRR in their Juniata shops in 1916. 

 

You could stop in and visit it on your way to or from York or to and from the ToyTrainMuseum.  And it’s a Pennsylvania RR engine as I know that you’re a fellow Penn Stater and possibly also a PRR fan.

 

Although I don’t think this one still exists, a somewhat famous sister unit of this engine is PRR #8976 although its probably more famous in toy train history than in real train history as it was the prototype for the Lionel pre-war die-cast scale 0-6-0 #8976.

 

Regards,

 

Bill

Don't forget prr #460 the Lindbergh engine. Gg1#4800 and......engine, engine number 9, on the NY transit line, if my train falls off the track,  pick it up, pick it up, pick it up!

Was the one after 909 a steam engine?

May I humbly suggest #50? It was actually a (USRA) 0-6-0, one of the GM&O's

(M&O) 0-6-0 switchers. They had several, of course, but the number "50" has a

certain substance.

 

Famous? Sure. Why not? It is accurate and the number of a true 0-6-0, so there's that.

Hello Michael,

 

How about #19 (A#1 on the 19 to Portland) ?

 

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Tiffany

How about 113, after CNJ 113, which is a newly restored 0-6-0

Uh...567?  

1401

you're close Rich....maybe 675.....that's it! I have two of those on my layout.

NAH!  The only thing famous about that engine is the cranky old fart that operates it.
I'm told he is a closet foamer and rivet counter. 

I'll second CarGuy/Michael R. suggestion of No. 113. She will doublehead with Reading & Northern No. 425 during Schuylkill Haven Borough Day tomorrow. Dedicated volunteers devoted 35 years to restoring her. The only other Jersey Central steam locomotive still in existence is Camelback 4-4-2 No. 592 in the B&O Museum in Baltimore.

 

The Reading Coal & Iron Co purchased her in 1953 for shifting at Locust Summit Coal Breaker, just before the quick, quiet and merciless scrapping of steam on the anthracite roads. She was retired to a siding and left to the elements. No one who saw her then would have given her a chance for preservation, let alone restoration to running condition.

 

Here is a video of No. 113 doubleheading with No. 425 on Santa Claus Specials between Minersville and Cressona on Saturday, November 30, 2013. Her Jersey Central chime whistle is slightly lower than the Reading G-1sa whistle on No. 425. The former RPO car on the rear provides power for heat and lights. Listen for No. 113's haunting whistle in the distance at 1:36.

 

 

 

 

 

No. 113 has a Wootten firebox. It is smaller and less prominent than those on Camelbacks and road engines. She also has an unusual "clamshell" firedoor.

 

She burns anthracite. Anthracite burns more slowly than bituminous. But it can get 500 degrees hotter, maybe more. The fireman explained he shovels coal in spots and lets them catch fire and burn.

I know! 759, the Berkshire restored by High Iron Co. A buddy of mine has a Lionel Berkshire, No. 726 or 736.

 

Last year I rode behind two NS Heritage Units (Pennsylvania and Conrail) around Horseshoe Curve. I kept hearing strange sounds, and photographers seemed to be focusing on a locomotive in front of them. Someone mentioned another number. Don't tell me. I'll think of it. . . .

 

Speaking of 1401 . . .

Spencer Shops painted 0-6-0 No. 1653 in this regal scheme. Her crew added an eagle on her smokebox front, a number plate with a Masonic emblem, and brass bands on her domes.

13, 1293, 1551, 6325...

Man, when that Pennsy and Conrail duo went around the Curve, one of them must have been smoking something fierce.

 

--Becky

Maybe both. Folks sure got excited.

Look at it the same way Bill has done here.

 

There are many "Numbers" out there, but, without the proper locomotive that goes with it...a number is just another number!

For example, if we were sitting side by side and you were to ask me to draw a picture of a locomotive numbered 611, I would draw you a picture of a streamlined 4-8-4...NOT an 0-6-0.

Problem with an 0-6-0 is that they were never really "memorable".  Mostly they were little yard shifters that never really distinguished themselves.  You might try to find an 0-6-0 that still exists to copy the number and style.  One of them is in Canfield, OH and was used at the Youngstown Steel and Wire works in town.  The engine is under roof and on display, but I don't recall the cab number.  But it is a typical 0-6-0 switcher.

 

The are others in various museums and on display in parks everywhere.  The ubiquitous 0-6-0, being on the bottom of the totem pole, as engines go, actually operated under steam for a longer period because the RR management didn't see fit to replace them as they did with their "crack" passenger trains and the longer, more expensive to run, freight trains.  So in many case they were the last steam engines still running on some lines. 

 

Pick out one, maybe the Baldwin shifter now at Steamtown, and letter and decorate your engine to represent one of those veterans.

 

Paul Fischer

And how could we forget the 212, the 7133, the 4023, the 736, the #1, the 9407, and my all time favorite....the 52:26 !    

I should have mentioned this at the outset, my apologies, but the road name for this 0-6-0, to match the other engines on the display, must be New York Central.