For All of You PRR Fans

Thanks for posting these great, old photo's.

Neat stuff!  Lots of Penn's finest (Big Jay) and even some T1 stuff. The one Buick photo would have been taken three to four years prior to 1951. K4's at that place and time would most likely be used on east bound commuter jobs, as the RS3s were just starting to show up in their passenger garb. Lima transfer Diesel LS25 is awesome, as always! Thanks!!

The first photo looks like the yard near 59th and Baltimore ave in Philly. I lived very close to that area and my aunt live a block away. When we visited her us kids would take a walk over a bridge that spanned the yard. Many steam engines would be parked underneath the bridge were just sitting there. 

 

Kids being kids we would try to throw stones down the stacks as a game.

Thank you for posting these interesting photos.

There are not many photos of the Q2's around.

thanks for posting......Tom

I wish we could walk through that collection of steam power today.

Great photos.  I really am intrigued by the double spout water column.  Any other info about it?

 

George Lasley

 I know your post is over a year old but I just wanted to let you know that this 59th St. Roundhouse was in Chicago at the old Panhandle Yards near 59th St. and Western Ave. The J1 2-10-4s operated west of Altoona. They would never have gone anywhere near Philadelphia.

 

In the photo identified as 63rd street, the Baldwin Sharknose BP20 diesel is passing the platforms at Englewood Union Station, 63rd street between S.

La Salle and S. State streets.

great old photos of some nice late steam and early diesels thanks for posting

 

Rich in NH

I know your question is over a year old, but I'll try to answer it. That is not a water column in the photo. It is a smoke abatement device which would capture exhaust fumes from a parked locomotive on the ready tracks between runs. I have read in the past where the exhaust was directed to and how it was treated but I do not remember. There were a number of these devices in the PRR's 59th Street engine terminal in Chicago. Chicago aggressively went after railroads and other producers of smoke and levied fines against them.

Nice photos.

Very interesting photos!  I've always loved the center-cab transfer diesels (both the Baltwin and Lima models).  They look larger than life--almost like a switcher counterpart to the DDA40X.

Aaron

I'd love to see a real T1 or J1......I am happy I have them in scale and I can run them and pretend!!!

I agree...could you just imagine?...Wow.

Great photos Matt. Here is another awesome PRR photo site.

http://m.billspennsyphotos.com...mp;fb_sig_network=fw

njcjoe thanks i think for posting this site i have things to do today but what is more important PRR photos or my list. looks like the PRR photos win!!!!

WOW.....easy to spend hours there!!!!

Thank you, Matt.

The PRR is one of the roads I model and sharing of your great PRR photos. is beneficial to me, so that I may correctly model the PRR prototypically. 

10-04!

Ralph