I'm not gonna argue, since you probably have more photos of this engine...but....decades ago I did model the PRR....as in, what shade of black is Brunswick Green. I cannot, at this late date, recall a PRR 0-8-0 with a small slopeback tender like that. All the ones my foggy brain remembers had rectangular tenders..the 0-4-0 and 0-6-0 having that tender pictured. Now, we ARE talking about "The Standard Railroad".....where really you didn't know what they were going to do next. Entirely possible that they put a slopeback on an 0-8-0 for a specific job. For my own edification and enlightenment, do you have a road number for this unit? Thanks
You probably are correct. The only 0-8-0 I found had a standard tender. The slope backs were supporting 0-6-0's.
Maybe it's a 2-8-0: http://www.billspennsyphotos.com/photos/PRR-Locomotives/PRR H6sb No. 1 1937 Altoona.jpg
Hmmm. It does look like a 0-6-0 doesn't it. I just took the photograohers word for it. He was there, but it was a long time after he took the photo...
That's probably not decal film. Back in steam days, sometimes that's all that got washed, so that the road name showed up. Nice pics, all of them.
Is that what that was? I always assumed that was a repaint, and they only washed the area where they needed the paint to stick. I don't know where I got that assumption, unless it's because I usually look at Santa Fe engines, and the Santa Fe painted numbers on the tenders and loved swapping tenders around.