PRR K4s Pacific with an interesting detail.

Maybe they installed those because there are no covers over the valve heads.

Nick Chillianis posted:

Found this on Shorpy.com.

It's a 1929 view of the brand new "Senator" at Washington Union Station.

Engine 5401 seems to have a bit of decoration that I haven't seen before on a Pennsy engine. Note the keystone plates on the valve heads above the pistons. I wonder if they dressed her that way just for this maiden run. Also, note the absence of catenary. This was pre-electrification.

Clicking on the image will enlarge it to its full (enormous) size. I'm pretty sure that freshly scrubbed look will be gone from the train and its engine crew by the time 5401 gives way to a DD1 at Manhattan Transfer.

Well, I don't know either. I tried finding 5401 on the roster here but couldn't find it listed. There are a great number of K4's on this page(and 5401 should have been right there). Maybe browse around and see if anything else is similar(unless you have already seen this resource).

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...px?id=PRR&Page=8

I found this site some time ago while looking up NYC Hudson's. They have a pretty impressive collection of pics on there of locomotives as well as rolling stock. If this site is posted elsewhere here, that's cool. If not, then perhaps it needs a topic for it?

Such niceties were probably disposed with, during the forced austerity of the Depression?    Nice touch, though.

Great photo.  Look at the shined shoes on the engineer and fireman !

Nick Chillianis posted:

Found this on Shorpy.com.

It's a 1929 view of the brand new "Senator" at Washington Union Station.

Engine 5401 seems to have a bit of decoration that I haven't seen before on a Pennsy engine. Note the keystone plates on the valve heads above the pistons. I wonder if they dressed her that way just for this maiden run. Also, note the absence of catenary. This was pre-electrification.

Clicking on the image will enlarge it to its full (enormous) size. I'm pretty sure that freshly scrubbed look will be gone from the train and its engine crew by the time 5401 gives way to a DD1 at Manhattan Transfer.

Ahh, Finally someone who knows about Manhattan Transfer!

The base of the old platform can still be seen today. Right in the Kearny Meadows!

Is that a bottle of seltzer on the pilot beam?  For a prohibition-era christening

Kent Loudon posted:

Is that a bottle of seltzer on the pilot beam?  For a prohibition-era christening

 

I think so.  Looks like the G-man is reaching for it already. (extreme right)