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Viewing Album:  PRR: "Pennsylvania'sTurbine Engine" ~ JAN 1945
 
By:Thomas C. Ayers
Dates:1/1/1945 - 1/1/1945
Album Info:Here is a two-page camera study entitled "Pennsylvania's Turbine Engine." It was published originally in the January 1945 issue of "Trains" magazine, pages 14-15. No author is specified. "The Pennsylvania Railroad has placed in experimental service on the Middle Division its new Class S-2 direct-drive steam turbine locomotive, a fundamentally new type of coal-burning motive power producing tractive effort by a steam turbine geared directly to the two center pairs of 68-inch drivers...." (Page 15) Also included are four photos of the "Steam Turbine" in action.
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PRR 6200, S-2, c. 1944
Title:  PRR 6200, S-2, c. 1944
Description:  Turbine. Here is a photo by William B. Beamer that was taken at the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania, c. 1944. It was published originally in David R. Sweetland's (2000) book entitled "Pennsylvania Railroad Color Pictorial: Volume One ~ Altoona To New York City," page 26. Shown here is PRR engine #6200, the S-2 (6-8-6) "Steam Turbine" built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works during September of 1944, rated at 6,900 horsepower, and retired in January of 1952 after barely eight years of experimental service.
Photo Date:  9/22/1944  Upload Date: 8/13/2021 10:26:32 PM
Location:  ALTOONA (HORSESHOE C, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  PRR 6200(UNKNOWN)
Views:  900   Comments: 0
PRR 6200, S-2, 1946
Title:  PRR 6200, S-2, 1946
Description:  Turbine. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide of a photo by Tom Harley that was taken in Englewood, Illinois, in November of 1946. Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #6200, the S-2 (6-8-6) "Steam Turbine" built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works during September of 1944, rated at 6,900 horsepower, and retired in January of 1952 after just eight years of revenue service. Note the "elephant ears" and the red-hot cinders under the firebox. No syncopating "chug-a-chug" . . . just a continuous, thunderous "wooosh"! (#5,185)
Photo Date:  11/14/1946  Upload Date: 6/22/2019 9:29:24 AM
Location:  Englewood, IL
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam,Signal,Passenger
Locomotives:  PRR 6200(UNKNOWN)
Views:  999   Comments: 2
PRR 6200, S-2, 1948
Title:  PRR 6200, S-2, 1948
Description:  Turbine. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide by an unidentified photographer that was taken at the Chicago World's Fair in July of 1948. Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #6200, the S-2 (6-8-6) "Steam Turbine" built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works during September of 1944, rated at 6,900 horsepower, and retired in January of 1952 after barely eight years of experimental service. Woosh!
Photo Date:  7/7/1948  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 1:50:30 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  PRR 6200(UNKNOWN)
Views:  1953   Comments: 0

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