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Gary Everhart's Collection
 
4/22/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:BLW 4-8-2Built As:PRR 6912 (4-8-2)
Serial Number:59571Order No:
Frame Number:27X30 cylinders, 72" driversBuilt:10/1926
Notes:PRR Class M-1; 1926 retired 11/1951
Other locos with this serial:  PRR 6912(4-8-2)
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PRR 4-8-2 #6912
Title:  PRR 4-8-2 #6912
Description:  In an ironic twist, this 1926 Baldwin built Mountain-type locomotive is ouble heading through Lima,OH, the home of the competing Lima Locomotive Works. Bert Pennypacker's 2-part account of these exceptional Mountains in Trains magazine (Oct & Nov, 1979) when they entered service: "The engines ran superbly, were not difficult to fire, and were easy on coal and water. They steamed so well, in fact, that no engineman was ever known to have complained about low steam pressure. But they were dirty hogs to run ..." BTW, note the "strongarm" switch control rods in the foreground.A Max Miller photo.
Photo Date:  9/9/1949  Upload Date: 5/25/2014 6:11:41 AM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  PRR 6912(4-8-2)
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