PRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • Train 17--in its later years
In it's last incarnation, PRR Train 17 was one of the Road's principal mail and express trains between New York and Pittsburgh. In October, 1964, Train 17's Daily Except Saturday and Sunday schedule...
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • Sign
Sounds like a destination sign to me. They were placed in and out of holders at the gates where the trains arrived. They used each side for seperate trains. Most likely the sign could be placed on...
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • B60B
Speaking of restoration........... Check out the PRR B60B we are restoring in Fredericksburg, Virginia. We had a sign painter letter our car and the star is real gold leaf.The website is...
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • B60b on eBay
The car only received one bid, and that did not meet the reserve, so the car was not sold. Evidently $6,999. was not sufficient to purchase the car.statistics: Posted by thirdrail — Sep 04, 2007
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • Head end stuff
Can you make any general statements about stuff that might have come up the Valley from the N&W into Harrisburg?This is a really good post. Sounds to me like you have many potential articles to...
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • White Deer
Wierd... I got to wondering... is this a former READING station? I could be wrong... had an odd feel to it...And Dan, yes I am partly of French extraction, traced back by my sister to Alsace-Lorraine...
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • Re: Head end stuff
Bill,Sorry.I am familiar with the PRR trains that ran on the line from Washington to Buffalo via Harrisburg. The previous comments about foreign-line head-end cars on inter-regional (as the PRR called...
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • Re: White Deer
Bill, White Deer is a Reading town. PRR was on the other side of the river here. Interesting. The equipment there is predominantly PRR, but the station is RDG. I guess RDG didn't have five Pullmans to...
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • Re: Head end stuff--former troop sleepers
Bill,I'm sorry if this is beginning to sound like a commercial for Railroad Model Craftsman, but I have another article in the hopper there--this time on troop sleepers and kitchens converted to...
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • Re: Train 17--in its later years
Chris,Does the Hagley have any documentation about the change in mail & express train numbering the Railroad underwent in the late 1950s or early 1960s?Prior to this change, the M&E trains...
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • HU Tower?
On the PRR main line through Metuchen, NJ, I recently saw a pix taken in 1939, which showed what was named HU tower in the distance.I've lived in this area my entire 52 years, have done a lot of...
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • PRR steam locomotive
I found an old photo, probably taken between the teens and 1925, of the front of a PRR locomotive with the crew standing on the pilot. It was taken somewhere north of Pittsburgh along the Buffalo...
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • Locomotive types
2726 was an H6a. To check engine numbers, go to:kc.pennsyrr.com/WS4D_Cook...index.htmlIt's a searchable index of PRR steam power.statistics: Posted by thirdrail — Sep 26, 2007
View ArticlePRR Discussion Forum Archive 2 • X29 Second Grabiron Added
I've got a builder's photo of the plate-end X29 that shows the cars were built with a single grabiron on the left end of the side (as was standard in the 1920s). When did the PRR add the second grab...
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