Bruce R. Pier Wrote:
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> The Pennsylvania RR maintained a collection of
> steam locomotives that were designed by them at
> the Northumberland PA, roundhouse. which
> ultimately become the nucleus of the Railroad
> Museum of Pennsylvania. One locomotive got away,
> I1sa 4483, which was sold to WABCO for display
> purposes, and ultimately wound up in upstate NY.
> It needs to be returned to PA, the sole surviving
> member of a class that nearly numbered 600
> examples
The little Pennsy aka the older Long Island Rail Road offered four steam locomotives for preservation to Kings County, Queens County, Nassau County, and Suffolk County. Only Nassau and Suffolk took G5’s 4-6-0’s 35 and 39 the last two LIRR steam locomotives to operate on Long Island. It makes me wonder what Kings (Brooklyn) and Queens would have got if they took them. Now we can only dream what lies below the parkways and swamps. There is rumors of a camelback in the swamp but what’s underneath the parkways?
Mike