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Viewing Album: PRR: Tender of I-1SA #4519 ~ March 1966
By:
Thomas C. Ayers
Dates:
3/21/1966 - 3/21/1966
Album Info:
Here are ten original photos that I took just East of WYE Tower in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, in March of 1966. What starts out looking like a just a bunch of rusting railroad cars is actually just about the first two: the two old Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive tenders. Before ending-up here on their way to the scrap dock, they once had been semi-permanently attached to steam locomotives and had pulled hundreds of freight trains and thousands of freight cars for many, many thousands of miles. And what's more, both of these tenders have "doghouses" ~ little cabins on the rear decks for the head-end brakeman. These photos give some idea of what the view and the experience were like for such a brakeman. The eleventh and last photo was taken by Otto C. Perry in Cleveland, Ohio, on 28 September 1930. It depicts PRR engine #4519, the I-1SA (2-10-0) "Decapod" whose tender is shown here.
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Title:
PRR 4519, I-1SA Tender, 1966
Description:
Doghouse. Here is the first of ten original photos that I took just East of WYE Tower in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, in March of 1966. Shown here are two soon-to-be-scrapped Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive tenders, coupled to a long string of hopper cars. When the locomotives that they had been attached to were decommissioned and sent to the scrap dock, these tenders were spared for another ten years or so. But now, their temporary numbers have been lined through and the word "PENNSYLVANIA" has been erased from their sides ~ which means that they will soon be scrapped as well.
Photo Date:
3/21/1966
Upload Date:
6/15/2016 9:52:53 AM
Location:
Duncansville, PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
RollingStock,Steam
Locomotives:
Views:
467
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Title:
PRR 4519, I-1SA Tender, 1966
Description:
Doghouse. Here is the second of ten original photos that I took just East of WYE Tower in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, in March of 1966. Shown here is the rear or trailing end of one of the soon-to-be-scrapped Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive tenders. Its builder's plate (visible just above the coupler) indicates that this is a Model 90-F-82 tender. The "4519" indicates that it was semi-permanently linked to an I-1SA (2-10-0) "Decapod" with that very number.
Photo Date:
3/21/1966
Upload Date:
6/15/2016 9:54:16 AM
Location:
Duncansville, PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
RollingStock,Steam
Locomotives:
Views:
406
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0
Title:
PRR 4519, I-1SA Tender, 1966
Description:
Doghouse. Here is the third of ten original photos that I took just East of WYE Tower in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, in March of 1966. Shown here is the builder's plate on the first Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive tender. This is a Model 90-F-82 steam locomotive tender. The "4519" indicates that it was semi-permanently linked to an I-1SA (2-10-0) "Decapod" with that very number. In a personal communication, Mr. Roger Radbill suggests that "this most likely is the original tender from PRR 4519 1923 Baldwin Locomotive Works I1s c/n 56798 rebuilt to I1sa 4/43 and scrapped or sold 10/59."
Photo Date:
3/21/1966
Upload Date:
6/15/2016 9:55:24 AM
Location:
Duncansville, PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
RollingStock,Steam
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Views:
278
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0
Title:
PRR 4519, I-1SA Tender, 1966
Description:
Doghouse. Here is the fourth of ten original photos that I took just East of WYE Tower in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, in March of 1966. Shown here are two soon-to-be-scrapped Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive tenders, coupled to a long string of hopper cars. When the locomotives that they had been attached to were decommissioned and sent to the scrap dock, these tenders were spared for another ten years or so.
Photo Date:
3/21/1966
Upload Date:
6/15/2016 9:56:13 AM
Location:
Duncansville, PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
RollingStock,Steam
Locomotives:
Views:
426
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0
Title:
PRR 4519, I-1SA Tender, 1966
Description:
Doghouse. Here is the fifth of ten original photos that I took just East of WYE Tower in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, in March of 1966. Shown here is a closer view of the "Doghouse" on the second Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive tender. The structure itself is made of metal, but originally there was glass in the windows. The low-lying structures on both sides of the deck could be flipped open so that water could be poured into the tender's reservoir. The round thing on the right was a headlight so that the locomotive's crew could see in the dark while running backwards. Partially visible at the left is a four-track position-light signal bridge.
Photo Date:
3/21/1966
Upload Date:
6/15/2016 10:31:19 AM
Location:
Duncansville, PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
RollingStock,Steam,Signal
Locomotives:
Views:
389
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0
Title:
PRR 4519, I-1SA Tender, 1966
Description:
Doghouse. Here is the sixth of ten original photos that I took just East of WYE Tower in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, in March of 1966. Shown here is what the head-end brakeman would have seen while sitting in the "Doghouse" of a Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive's tender. Except for the exhaust smoke and cinders, you can almost feel the rockin' and rollin' as the train leaves Hollidaysburg on its way up the Allegheny Mountains via the Muleshoe Curve to Gallitzin and points West! The PRR's tracks shown here actually occupy the original right-of-way for the Allegheny Portage Railroad between Hollidaysburg and Duncansville.
Photo Date:
3/21/1966
Upload Date:
6/15/2016 10:32:13 AM
Location:
Duncansville, PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
RollingStock,Steam
Locomotives:
Views:
242
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Title:
PRR 4519, I-1SA Tender, 1966
Description:
Doghouse. Here is the seventh of ten original photos that I took just East of WYE Tower in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, in March of 1966. Shown here is a right-side view of the "Doghouse" on the second Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive tender. The steel rods around the window are to protect the head-end brakeman from tree branches and other objects while leaning out to inspect the cars of the train behind him. Coupled to the tender is PRR hopper #191117, a 70-ton capacity H-21A built in the Altoona Car Shops around 1916. It's destined to be rebuilt in the PRR's Samuel Rea Shop. Discernable in the distance is the clock tower of the Blair County Court House located in downtown Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
Photo Date:
3/21/1966
Upload Date:
6/15/2016 10:32:55 AM
Location:
Duncansville, PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
RollingStock,Steam
Locomotives:
Views:
353
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0
Title:
PRR 4519, I-1SA Tender, 1966
Description:
Doghouse. Here is the eighth of ten original photos that I took just East of WYE Tower in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, in March of 1966. Shown here is the coal bunker of the first Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive tender, as seen from the bunker of the opposing tender. This is what the locomotive engineman and fireman would see: Dutch doors on the bunker itself, as well as a channel in the floor for the coal to drop into the mechanical stoker. Until Federal regulations were promulgated in 1923, most steam locomotives were hand fired ~ up to 5,000 pounds of coal per hour!
Photo Date:
3/21/1966
Upload Date:
6/15/2016 10:34:36 AM
Location:
Duncansville, PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
RollingStock,Steam
Locomotives:
Views:
325
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0
Title:
PRR 4519, I-1SA Tender, 1966
Description:
Doghouse. Here is the ninth of ten original photos that I took just East of WYE Tower in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, in March of 1966. Shown here are drawbars linking two Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive tenders together, as well as the mechanical stoker/worm gear that fed coal from the tender into a flaming firebox in the good old days of steam railroading.
Photo Date:
3/21/1966
Upload Date:
6/15/2016 10:35:21 AM
Location:
Duncansville, PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
RollingStock,Steam
Locomotives:
Views:
257
Comments:
0
Title:
PRR 4519, I-1SA Tender, 1966
Description:
Doghouse. Here is the tenth of ten original photos that I took just East of WYE Tower in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, in March of 1966. Shown here is a close-up view of the water scoop under one of the soon-to-be-scrapped Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive tenders parked there.
Photo Date:
3/21/1966
Upload Date:
6/15/2016 10:36:31 AM
Location:
Duncansville, PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
RollingStock,Steam
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Views:
208
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Title:
PRR 4519, I-1SA, 1930
Description:
Doghouse. Here is an image of a photo by Otto C. Perry that was taken in Cleveland, Ohio, on 28 September 1930. Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #4519, an I-1SA (2-10-0) "Decapod" built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works as an I-1S during August of 1923, rebuilt in Juniata as an I-1SA in April of 1943, and retired in October of 1959 after 36 years of faithful service. The tender visible in this photo is one of the two depicted in this album. This image comes from the "Otto C. Perry Memorial Collection of Railroad Photographs" maintained by the Denver Public Library in Denver, Colorado. See: http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15330coll22/id/64070. Many thanks to Roger Radbill for locating this photo! Mr. Radbill also suggests that "this most likely is the original tender from PRR 4519 1923 Baldwin Locomotive Works I1s c/n 56798 rebuilt to I1sa 4/43 and scrapped or sold 10/59."
Photo Date:
3/21/1966
Upload Date:
6/15/2016 10:51:53 AM
Location:
Cleveland, OH
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
Steam
Locomotives:
PRR 4519(2-10-0)
Views:
633
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