PRR Any Pennsylvania Railroad fans left...

I have many memories of the Pennsy around the Louisville area and would consider myself a fan. It would be hard to not appreciate the 'Standard Railroad'.
Used to ride the Kentuckian to Seymour, In. with some fellow railfans and spend the night watching PRR and B&O action until about 6 am when the southbound kentuckian would take us home.
Since the ride was in the dark not much in the way of pictures though. I do have one photo of the Kentuckian arriving Louisville I just posted on railimages.
Mikado

 

Here is the picture I guess my dad(MIKADO) is talking about!

 

Hey, you have Pennsy fan here. I have been collecting Pennsy engines to run my layout.

Greg

 

I will add some coments about the Broadway Limited in the Thread about it, above this one.

 

I'm a true Pennsy fan. No one can take me away from my Tuscan Red and Brunwick Green. I model the whatever for the PRR. Here's pictures of my engines.

 

Hi all,
I grew up in Narberth, the 3rd station West of Philly on the MAIN LINE. I lived just one block from the tracks and would spend my summers hanging out at the trains station visiting with the ticket agent, a Mr Ott. This was in the 50's and would watch the Broadway LTD, Spirit of St Louis pass through heading West in the early evenings. At about 0825 the Aero Train would make it way from Philly to Pittsburgh. My mom took me for a ride on it from Paoli to Harrisburg once. I cannot wait to purchase Con Cor's version when it is released. I cannot decide whether it will be HO or N scale. I model in Z scale, but it is Swiss Railways. I discovered the scale while based at Ramstein AB, Germany in the early 90's. Recently I discovered MTL and have been collecting Eastern Railroads rolling stock, 1940s - 1960s. Before PC and Contrail. I've been a member of the NRHS and when I was significantly younger, back in the 50's my mom would take me on their train outings which was just a long day trip.
Well, so much for my chatter, I need to leave space for others to contribute.

Robert

 

As it says in my sig. To my strong aesthetic sense, their paint schemes were uninteresting and their steam designs generally unattractive. (Arch-rival the Central had it much better on both counts.) They were the "Standard Railroad of the World", but often didn't do things the typical way. And maybe that's why I like the PRR. The largest electrification in North America (and the MP54s, about the only EMUs I don't just ignore). Four-track mainline. The ability to live up to their name in their steam fleet but not their diesels, leading to a collection of almost every postwar diesel (including Baldwins, which has to be a plus). And my preference as a model for Appalachian scenery combined with relatively low interest in a number of other eastern roads. And so on.

 

Well I,m a PRR fan, but only with a couple of years worth of interest. I,ve got a girlfriend who lives near to Altoona, and until I actually flew over to see her for the first time in 2006, I knew very little of the PRR. Since then I,ve done a lot of reading about the local area around Altoona, and also developed a taste for the Norfolk Southern railroad. I,ve been working on a layout in my attic, which will be based on several of the sights around Altoona.
Hopefully I,ll be back over in Pennsylvania, this summer, so I can get to see more, of the old PRR, as well as NS railroads.
Ron

 

I can give you some info on the St. Louis, Vandalia and Terre Haute RR.
It was charted in 1865 to compete with the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute RR. The StLV&TH the road became known as the Vandalia line, till CR. A lease agreement with the Terre Haute & Indianapolis RR Company to operate the line.
Actual work began in 1868, though I was told work on the Wabash river trestle at Terre Haute and the trestle over Big Creek, along with the stone arch n trestle, part of it’s still standing
old tressel - RailImages.com
over Mill Creek, both in Clark county IL was started earlier. I think the trestle over the Embarras River was started about the same time.
It reached Greenup IL later in 1868 and the first passenger train made it to St. Louis in 1870.
http://www.greenupdepot.org/html/depot_history.html
Both roads became part of the PRR in the early1900’s as the single owner.
There was another line that took off NW from the Vandalia line at Dennison ILL to Paris then on to Decatur and Peoria IL. I don’t know much about it yet, but it may have been part of the Terre Haute & Peoria RR. The line was abandoned by CR and tracks removed in the 80’s. I heard there was a trestle still standing south of Paris, but I haven’t made it there yet.
Side note, a bridge bout 2 mile west of Casey IL, where you can still read Pennsylvania
PRR bridge, Vandalia line - RailImages.com
I hope this all makes some sense, cause I’m not a good writer and tried not to make it to long winded.
inch

 

PRR - The grand daddy of all railroads!:thumbs_up:

 

Thanks Boxcab E50, pleasure to come aboard!!!!

 

I will post some pictures shortly

 

I have several early photos marked StLV&TH RR that show newly constructed trestles. The only one with a locomotive is a 4-4-0 wood burner pulling 6 flat cars and a work gang. Creeks mentioned are Big Creek & West Mill Creek. Any chance these are the same ones you mention? I intend to list them on eBay but I'd be happy to jpeg you some scans if you'd like them for your files or for posting.

 

I'm looking for pictures of the PRR diesel they called the centepeed because of the wheel configuration. Do anyone know if it was offered in HO or N scales? I model in Z but can always add it to my train collection and take it to train shows and run it on club layouts.

Robert

 

Centipede

Loadmaster, Hello ! Recommend you check Keystone Crossings, kc.pennsyrr.com , an expansive resource to all things PRR. Jerry Breon's page shows a brass HO Centipede by Overland Models, to which he added trainphone antennas, ca.2000. Another of the ring sites deals with PRR Equipment manufactured for the hobby, (I can't find it at this minute, but know it's there.) Lots of pics of almost anything PRR available on the sites here. The PRRTHS site is also an option for definitive info. Your ingenuity and creative skill are gonna' be needed to replicate this one in so small a scale. Best of luck Bob C.

PS: Here's a Google for Photos - http://www.google.com/search?source...LG:2008-09,GGLG:en&q=Baldwin+Centipede+photos - comes up with a few sources. BC

 

Hello Bob,

Thanks a lot for the reference material. I just finished spending 2 hours reviewing the Keystone Crossing website, WOW. I never realized that much info about the PRR. When I was back in PA last summer, I visited the RR museum in Strasburg.

Robert

 

Present.

Yup, I bleed DGLE. Glad to be here, hope post traffic picks up some. Model PRR in HO scale, former CSX conductor, Baltimore, MD.

Dave