A PRR H9s Consoladation switcher works the depot.

Even a brute like this needs a sip of water every now and then. To see a companion photo taken at about the same time but from higher perspective, click Railroad: Pennsylvania Railroad
Locomotive: Steam 2-10-0
Location: Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: PRR 6314
Train ID: light power
Photo Date: June 11, 1953

This Class H10 Consoladation survived and now resides in retirement at Strasburg.

Pennsy power waits it out at Altoona. PRR Class EH45.

There's plenty of muscle here, PRR 6768 pulls on the main. A companion view is seen here. PRR Class M1a.

One of the great paradoxes in RR history is that The Standard Railroad of the World had no standard locomotive numbering scheme. Few numbers on the PRR were unique to one locomotive type or class... (more)

Imagine for a minute you are finishing the sandwich you packed for lunch today (there is no such thing as 'fast food' yet), enjoying it with an ice cold 7oz. bottle of Coke, when along comes this ... (more)

Juniata Shops. PRR Class B8a.

OK, here's color PRR mainline action from the Dziobko camera from this June day in 1953 at Altoona, near the depot in this view. Pennsy started using 2-8-0's in freight service in 1875. PRR Class... (more)

After setting out a gondola full of shop scrap, the shifter backs up to the turntable. The stacks of wheels in t... (more)

A shifter shoves PRR gon #317762 with a load of shop scrap off the turntable. PRR Class B8a.

An E6s Atlantic sits in the station with a Bordentown Branch train that has just arrived from Camden. Behind her is a P70 coach. Today this service is run with light-rail DMUs on the New Jersey ... (more)

A boxcab P5a motor grinds west with what appears to be empty ore hoppers (probably coming from South Amboy and heading to PA coal fields). When first built in 1933, the P5a was to be an electric K... (more)

Old meets new at the Harrisburg Amtrak station. GG1 4859 and a PRR wood caboose stand idle while the last car of Amtrak's eastbound Pennsylvanian rolls under the concourse.

U-man delivers supplies to a set of helper power, 1953 style, as a steam powered train enters the scene from the right. Pennsy designated helper diesels with a yellow band on the cab door. For a... (more)