The Pennsylvania Railroad class E6 was the last 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotive built for the company. Designed under Alfred W. Gibbs, it had a large free-steaming boiler, outside Walschaerts valve gear, piston valves and a cast-steel trailing truck. A prototype, number 5075, came out of the Juniata Shops in 1910 and was tested at length, and eighty production locomotives followed in 1914. In road tests one averaged more than 75 miles per hour start to stop with a nine-car train. The class was the first to exceed 1,000 horsepower per driving axle. Faster Pacifics soon displaced it from the top trains, but some lasted to the end of steam. Number 460, the Lindbergh Engine, is preserved.
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Juniata Shops in 1910
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Juniata Shops in 1910
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is preserved at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
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the end of steam on the PRR
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the end of steam on the PRR
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the end of steam on the PRR
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Juniata Shops in 1910
Of Make: Pennsylvania Railroad, Lead, class
The Pennsylvania Railroad Class E6 was the final type
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The Pennsylvania Railroad Class E6 was the final type
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The Pennsylvania Railroad Class E6 was the final type
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