The skies have opened up and here's one more companion view of the action at Lewistown in the last daylight hours of 1956. For an earlier view of the steam engine being hostled, click more)
Seen earlier in the yard, the PRR 6967 starts to pull. To see that view, click here>. PRR Class M1a.
Ore empties move east behind Baldwin sharks. John's railfanning companion was his longtime friend the late Bill Rosenberg of Kew Gardens, Long Island, N.Y., and the method of transport for this 3... (more)
A lone geep drills the yard on a colorless New Years Eve, 1956. For a more colorful view of this same engine a few minutes later out on the main, click Railroad: Pennsylvania RailroadLocomotive: EMD GP7Location: Lewistown, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: PRR 8572Train ID: yard jobPhoto Date: December 31, 1956
A Mountain-type M1a is tied onto a manifest out on the main at Lewistown. Thanks to Mr. Hess for the research on the locomotive number. To see the same train getting underway, click Railroad: Pennsylvania RailroadLocomotive: Steam 4-8-2Location: Lewistown, Pennsylvania, USALocomotive #: PRR 6967Train ID: manifestPhoto Date: December 31, 1956
This M1a is being hostled to its train. Click on "PRR 6769" above to see the other views of this engine that afternoon in 1956.
In the pit at Lewistown the fires are simmering. Decapod I1s 4233 surrendered it's PRR number to a renumbered E7A after retirement.
Wabash shows up with a suburban train inbound at 21st St. on a September morning in '59.