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Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. #76, a Brill Center-Door car, was built in 1926 and roamed the Philadelphia trackage for fifty years. It currently runs in Scranton PA with the Electric City Trolley Museum
Philadelphia Trolleys (PA) (Images of Rail)
History of the J. G. Brill Company (Series: Railroads Past and Present)
Barber Asphalt Company 8,000-gallon tank car, built in the early 1900s by the German American Car Company; retains arch bar trucks
Walthers - 40' Tank car Gulf - Ready to Run
Just barely visible is former DL&W 3621, built by Pullman during WWII as a troop sleeper and later acquired by the Lackawanna for use as a work car. Conrail inherited the car, and later donated it to Steamtown.
Walthers - Express Box Car (Rebuilt Troop Sleeper) - Assembled (2-pack) HO - Erie Lackawanna
Showing its 110 years, former Long Island Rotary Snowplow 193 at Steamtown, with its former PRR steam locomotive tender. Built in 1898, this unit was active until 1965, and is the only known eastern US rotary to survive.
HO Rotary Snowplows
Perhaps the last surviving large relic of the New York Central's fleet of 4-6-4 Hudsons, X5313 went along with its locomotive to the TH&B; the locomotive itself was scrapped in 1954, but the tender was converted to a steam generator car, surviving in that form for decades before being retired to Steamtown.
Sounds of Steam Locomotives, No. 4: The Great New York Central - Hudson, Mohawk, Niagara MP3 download
New York Central, Hudson Type 20x30 poster
HO Hudson
Built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1914, Canadian National #47 is a 4-6-4T Baltic Tank built for commuter service, with an extended frame for carrtying its own fuel and water; this configuration made for a shorter locomotive that was easier to turn. Original serving with the Grand Trunk, #47 was later absorbed into the CN, where it ran until 1959.
#47 is the only surviving Baltic Tank in the US, as later American-built 4-6-4Ts of the Central of New Jersey and Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company were all scrapped. However, two other examples remain in Canada.
Related Pages:
Guide to North American Steam Locomotives (Railroad Reference, No 8)
Brooks-Scanlon Corp #1 is a 2-6-2 built by Baldwin in 1914, and used for logging. This locomotive was an early addition to Steamtown, being purchased in 1962.
In the US, the 2-6-2 Prairie evolved as a more powerful outgrowth of the 2-6-0 Mogul.
HO RTR 2-6-2 Prairie w/Tender & Smoke, UP #1836
HO RTR 2-6-2 Prairie w/Tender & Smoke, NYC #1905
Canadian National 3254 was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company for the Canadian Government Railway. It quickly became part of the merged Canadian National, where it served hauling freight for forty years.For much of the 1980s, it ran on the Gettysburg Railroad before going to Steamtown.
Canadian National Steam in Color Volume 1: East
HO Spectrum USRA 2-10-2 Light w/DCC, CN #4209
From an original 1894 article, in the public domain
