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 Here's another fuzzy picture of a Class C1 0-8-0 Heavy Switcher, the only eight-wheeled switcher built by the Pennsylvania in the 20th century, |
Pennsyvania Lines West (of Pittsburgh) was the only part of the railroad that used articulated mallet engines. Here is number 1395, a class CC1s 0-8-8-0 Mallet Compound Switcher/Helper. It looks as if there is another one in the background |
Here's another M1 (sorry it's so fuzzy) 4-8-2 which I think is number 6914. It has a really big tender, with eight axles. |
A kind roundhouse forman posed this M1 or M1a for me. I kept trying to get a good picture of an engine framed by the roundhouse door, but I never did. |
Below are some scans from slides, mostly Ektachrome, which are completely undated. 
M1a Mountain (4-8-2) type Number 6726 Obviously this engine almost got away from me. This huge tender was called "coast-to-coast". It wouldn't really make it, but it was big. The first big tenders on the PRR carried 21,000 gallons of water, and were bought with the M1a engines in 1930. Later 25,000 gallon tenders were built for use on K4s Pacific type passenger locomotives, but it was soon realized that carrying all that water around at 60-80 miles per hour was not such a good idea. Most of the latter group were used on I1s Decapod type freight locomotives, though I think some were attached to M1's, which had been built with 13,000 gallon tenders.  Another N2sa, Number 7104 The second engine of a doubleheader. The tender of the lead engine looks as if it might have the gold border of an old passenger engine tender.  Another I1s, Number 4543  I1s Number 4334 Click for a great deal more information on the Pennsylvania Railroad . |
Once in a while my camera found locomotives of other railroads:   Here are two fuzzy shots (with my Agfa Memo half frame camera) of a Reading Company Pacific 4-6-2 class G2sa in Reading Terminal, Philadelphia  The Norfolk and Western liked big articulated engines, and stuck with Mallet compunding long after other railroads had switched to single explansion articulateds.  The N&W had some trains they wanted to go faster than a Mallet could, so they had single expansion articulated engines like number 1209, in addition to the Mallets. I'm not sure, but this may have had a 4-6-6-4 wheel arrangemenr. It was an N&W roundhouse foreman who started me on my fruitless search for the perfectly framed locomotive with this pose. This B&O Consolidation 2-8-0 type was not glamorous, but it did its job too:  It looks as if never even got a superheater. |
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