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Pennsylvania (PRR) Steam Roster: Post 1906

Last revised: September 22, 2026

By: Adam Burns

Between 1910 and the early 1920s the Pennsylvania Railroad settled on five steam locomotives and then built them by the hundred. The E6s Atlantic and the K4s Pacific handled the passenger trains. The L1s Mikado, the I1s Decapod, and the M1 Mountain handled the freight. Around those five sat an enormous Consolidation fleet, a few experimental articulateds, two famous duplex classes, and one steam turbine. George H. Drury’s chapter in the revised Guide to North American Steam Locomotives is the class grid below.

Juniata, at Altoona, built more locomotives for its owner than any other American railroad built for itself. A Belpaire firebox, a keystone number plate, and an “s” for superheat were the marks of the system. The Belpaire has a flat crown and flat sides, so the staybolts between the crown sheet and the wrapper are straight and visible. It was easier to maintain, and Juniata could turn the boilers out in quantity. The firebox still depends on those stays. What the design gave the railroad was a staybolt a shopman could see, and a heating surface the company trusted enough to put under nearly everything it rostered after 1906.

Pennsylvania Railroad A5s 0-4-0 713 running light through Atlantic City New Jersey on April 25 1954

A5s #713, an 0-4-0, running light through Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 25, 1954. Doug Wornom photo. The A5s was the heavy street switcher, piston valves and power reverse, 131,750 pounds, built at Juniata from 1916 to 1924.

On this page: At a glance · Consolidations, Mikados, Decapods · Mountains, the J1, and the duplexes · Atlantics and the K4s · Switchers and articulateds · November 30, 1957 · Class roster

At a glance

ItemDetail
RailroadPennsylvania Railroad. Mark PRR. Company Pennsylvania Railroad
This rosterLocomotives built since 1906, after Drury, pages 267–271. Earlier power is outside the grid
ShopsJuniata, at Altoona, with a stationary test plant. Outside orders usually went to Baldwin at Eddystone
Freight, in quantity1,233 class H8, H9, and H10 Consolidations. 574 L1s Mikados, 1914–1919. 598 I1s Decapods. 301 M1 and M1a Mountains. 125 J1 2-10-4s, 1942–1944
Passenger, in quantity82 E6s Atlantics, plus one experimental E6. 425 K4s Pacifics, 1914–1928. Two K5s, 1929, not repeated. 90 G5s Ten-Wheelers, and 31 more for the Long Island
Duplex and turbineS1 6-4-4-6, one engine, 6100. T1 4-4-4-4, 52 engines. Q1 4-6-4-4, one engine. Q2 4-4-6-4, 26 engines. S2 6-8-6 turbine, engine 6200
Lines WestOperated by the Pennsylvania Company until the 1920s, with its own number blocks and several of its own classes (K3s, N1s, the USRA engines)
Last steamDeclared finished November 30, 1957. The year-end report still listed 319 steam locomotives. 21 remained at the end of 1958
PreservedK4s 1361 at Altoona, under restoration. K4s 3750 and L1s 520 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

Class table follows Drury, Guide to North American Steam Locomotives (revised edition), pages 270–271. Information compiled September 22, 2026.

The Consolidation, then the Mike, then the Decapod

The modern Pennsylvania Consolidation starts with the H6 of 1906, Baldwin, and then the H6b. The H8 of 1907 was the step up: 24-by-28-inch cylinders, 62-inch drivers, and more than 42,000 pounds of extra weight over the engines it replaced. Juniata and the commercial builders kept at them through 1913. As superheaters went on, many early H8s were reclassed H9 or H10. Cylinder diameter was the real difference. H9s on Lines East had 25-by-28-inch cylinders and the same 62-inch drivers. H10s on Lines West were Mikado-sized, 27-by-28-inch cylinders, about 320,700 pounds, in the range of a later USRA heavy Mikado, and they carried the same boiler as the K4s. Counted together, H8, H9, and H10 came to 1,233 locomotives. Coal and ore trains were still doubleheading 2-8-0s after the Mikado had arrived.

The L1s was the next standard freight engine. Between 1914 and 1919 the company acquired 574 of them: 344 from Juniata, 205 from Baldwin, and 25 from Lima. They shared a boiler, and a great many parts, with the K4s. Drury puts them first on the Central Region, then bumped east, to everything east of Altoona and Renovo, once the Decapods arrived. A long-distance tender on the later engines rode on sixteen wheels.

The I1s was the Decapod, and it was the Pennsylvania’s answer to those doubleheaded Consolidations. One test engine, 790, came out of Juniata in 1916. Juniata built 122 more in 1918 and 1919. Baldwin built 475, numbered 4225–4699, in 1922 and 1923. That is 598. The Baldwin engines carried Worthington BL feedwater heaters, unusual on a railroad that was slow to adopt feedwater heaters at all. Cylinders were 30½ by 32 inches, drivers 62 inches, tractive effort 90,000 pounds, about twice an H8, and the engine weight was 386,100 pounds. They were enormous for the rail they ran on. They also did the job. The class letter in the railroad’s own usage is I1s, the superheated Decapod. The three rows below are that class, including the 1916 test engine.

Lines West wanted a 2-10-2 and got the N1s: 35 from Brooks in 1918 and 25 from Baldwin in 1919, sixty engines. The grate was 79.9 square feet, which is why the firebox sat on a trailing truck. Drivers matched the I1s, the cylinders were half an inch smaller, and the weight went to 435,000 pounds. They were assigned to the Central Region and displaced L1s Mikados. The United States Railroad Administration also handed Lines West 130 heavy 2-10-2s, class N2s, same cylinder size as the N1s, drivers an inch larger, and about 55,000 pounds lighter. After four years the Pennsylvania replaced their radial-stay fireboxes with Belpaires. The same administration assigned 38 light 2-8-2s in 1919. All but five moved on to the Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis–San Francisco. The five that stayed were class L2s, numbered 9627–9631, and went to work on the Grand Rapids & Indiana.

Pennsylvania Railroad 4-8-2 M-1 6903 at Mt Union PA In The 1950s

Pennsylvania 4-8-2 #6903 (M-1) hustles refrigerator cars westbound through Mt. Union, Pennsylvania during the 1950s. Stephen Bogen photo.

The M1, a war 2-10-4, and the duplexes

The M1 of 1923 was an I1 boiler on a Mountain, with interchangeable parts, 27-by-30-inch cylinders, 72-inch drivers, and a weight of 385,000 pounds. Juniata built one, 4700, later renumbered 6699, and tested it. Baldwin and Lima delivered 200 M1s in 1926, engines 6800–6999. Lima, Baldwin, and Juniata built 100 M1as in 1930, engines 6700–6799. Some were dual-service, with a larger tender and a mechanical stoker. The first tender tried on the type was a low-sided tank more appropriate to an E6. A few M1s were stripped and painted for passenger trains. New York–Washington electrification then released Pacifics, and the Mountains were not needed in that service. They remained the fast freight engine.

World War II arrived with a traffic surge and almost no modern freight power. In May 1942 Juniata turned out a single duplex, class Q1, engine 6130, a 4-6-4-4 with one set of drivers set the other way under the firebox. It was not a success, and the idea went back to the drawing board. The War Production Board had frozen new designs, so the Pennsylvania borrowed a Chesapeake & Ohio 2-10-4, changed the drivers from 69 inches to 70, fitted a solid drop-coupler pilot and a keystone number plate, and built 125 class J1s at Altoona in 1942, 1943, and 1944: 100 engines numbered 6401–6500, and 25 numbered 6150–6174.

A second duplex, the Q2 4-4-6-4, was ready in 1944. Both sets of drivers faced forward. The prototype was 6131. The railroad canceled an order to Lima for 25 more 2-10-4s and built 25 Q2s at Altoona in 1945, engines 6175–6199. They were the most powerful two-unit duplexes anyone built, about 40,000 pounds heavier than a J1 and about 5,000 pounds stronger in tractive effort. They were also more complicated. Every Q2 was retired before any of the J1s.

The passenger duplexes were a separate disappointment. Baldwin built two T1 prototypes, 6110 and 6111, in 1942. Juniata and Baldwin built 50 more, 5500–5549, in 1945 and 1946. The S1, engine 6100, was a one-of-a-kind 6-4-4-6 of 1939. The S2, engine 6200, is the turbine: a Baldwin 6-8-6 of 1944, direct drive, retired in 1952. It is not a second S1.

From the Atlantic back to the Pacific

The Pennsylvania stayed with Atlantics until 1910, and it got more out of a 4-4-2 than most railroads got out of a light Pacific. In 1907 Alco’s Pittsburgh works delivered an experimental Pacific, class K28, engine 7067: 24-by-26-inch cylinders, 80-inch drivers, 273,600 pounds. That engine was the sketch for a Lines West K1 that was never built, and for the Lines West K2 that was. Between 1910 and 1913 the railroad acquired 227 K2 Pacifics. Most were built superheated, and the others were superheated later and reclassed. In 1913 Baldwin delivered 30 K3s Pacifics to Lines West, larger, and equipped with mechanical stokers, which the Pennsylvania adopted only reluctantly and years afterward.

The K2 was still not quite right. In 1910 the company returned to the Atlantic and produced the E6: 22-by-26-inch cylinders, 80-inch drivers, 231,500 pounds, in effect a middleweight Pacific with two pairs of drivers. The boiler was close to the H8’s. Superheating allowed the cylinders to go to 23½ inches and the tractive effort to 31,275 pounds. Juniata built two in 1912 and 80 in 1914, most of them for the New York–Philadelphia–Washington trains. One experimental E6, 5075, later 1067, dates from 1910.

In 1911 Alco delivered another experimental Pacific, class K29, engine 3395: 27-by-28-inch cylinders, 80-inch drivers, 317,000 pounds. The K4s combined that size with the E6’s manners and the L1s boiler. It was tested for three years. Between 1917 and 1927 Altoona built 324. Passenger trains kept growing, and doubleheaded K4s became ordinary practice, while other railroads were buying 4-8-2s, 4-6-4s, and 4-8-4s. In 1927 and 1928 the Pennsylvania ordered 100 more K4s, 25 from Juniata and 75 from Baldwin, still hand-fired. With the 1914 prototype the class is 425 locomotives, numbered in the 8–8378 series, built from 1914 through 1928. Engine 5495, Altoona, 1928, was among the last. For builder photographs the railroad painted the window frames and the lamp lenses white.

Suburban service needed something smaller. The G5s put an E6 boiler on 68-inch drivers. The Pennsylvania built 90 of its own, in two groups, and 31 for the Long Island Rail Road. Those 31 are on the Long Island steam roster.

In 1929 Juniata and Baldwin each built a heavy Pacific with M1-size cylinders, class K5, engines 5698 and 5699. The Baldwin engine had Caprotti poppet valves, removed in 1937. Both had Worthington feedwater heaters, and both were handed a Pennsylvania coal shovel. They offered about 10,000 pounds more tractive effort than a K4s and put about 6,000 pounds more weight on the drivers. They were slippery. They were not enough better to duplicate, and the Depression made a new passenger engine unnecessary.

Over the years the K4s received disk drivers, smoke lifters, solid pilots, and a little streamlining. Late in the steam era the headlight and the turbogenerator traded places, the generator moving onto the smokebox front just ahead of the stack. The change was small. The face of the locomotive was not. The early 1940s brought the S1 and the T1 for passenger work, and the S2 turbine. None of them replaced the K4s on the trains that still needed steam.

Switchers, and a few articulateds

Two classes dominated the six-wheel switchers. The B6 weighed about 170,000 to 180,000 pounds. The B8 weighed about 140,000. The Lines West B29 was lighter still, about 135,000 pounds. The United States Railroad Administration allotted 30 six-wheel switchers, class B28s, built in 1918 and 1919. Street track and the sharp curves of the eastern cities were an 0-4-0 job. The A4, 64 engines, was built from 1906 to 1913. The A5s, 47 engines, was built from 1916 to 1924, with piston valves and power reverse, at 131,750 pounds the heaviest 0-4-0s the railroad owned.

In the mid-1920s Juniata built 90 class C1 0-8-0s, engines in the 6550–6639 series, with 27-by-30-inch cylinders, 56-inch drivers, a weight of 278,000 pounds, and 78,107 pounds of tractive effort. A USRA 0-8-0, for comparison, had 25-by-28-inch cylinders, 51-inch drivers, a weight of 214,000 pounds, and about 51,000 pounds of tractive effort. The C1 was large, and the people who ran it did not like it.

Articulateds were experiments, with one exception. In 1911 Schenectady built a single 2-8-8-2, class HH1, engine 3396, which pushed near Pittsburgh. In 1912 Baldwin built a single 0-8-8-0, class CC1, engine 3397, meant to replace a pair of Consolidations in pusher service. It was not successful enough to repeat. In 1919 Juniata built a single-expansion 2-8-8-0, class HC1s, engine 3700. It was too big, it stayed a pusher, and it was not duplicated. The articulateds that worked were ten 0-8-8-0s, class CC2s, Baldwin, 1919, for Lines West pushers and humps. All ten eventually sat at Columbus, Ohio.

In 1943 the Pennsylvania bought six USRA 2-8-8-2s from the Norfolk & Western for Hagerstown and Harrisburg. Norfolk & Western classed them Y3. The Pennsylvania classed them HH1, reusing the classification of its 1911 articulated. After the war they went to Columbus to join the CC2s. Their road numbers are not in Drury’s post-1906 grid, which lists the original HH1 as the single engine 3396, so they are not given a row below.

November 30, 1957

By the late 1920s the mechanical department had turned from new steam to electrification. The wires reached Washington in 1935 and Harrisburg in 1938, and a surplus of steam locomotives followed. The intention to electrify on over the Alleghenies to Pittsburgh kept new steam on the shelf through the Depression. The war then had to be moved with Decapods, Mikados, and a crash program of 2-10-4s. After the war the company did buy duplex freight engines, which were good, and duplex passenger engines, which were not.

Steam was declared finished on November 30, 1957. Some of the last passenger assignments were on the New York & Long Branch, where a K4s still fit the railroad. The report to the Interstate Commerce Commission at the end of that year still included 319 steam locomotives, and 21 were left at the end of 1958. K4s 1361, built at Juniata in 1918, is under restoration at the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona. K4s 3750 and L1s 520 are at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotives built since 1906

Numbers on the big classes were assigned in blocks, and the blocks were not consecutive. A quantity is the number of locomotives, not the span of the number series. An “s” in the class is superheat. Lines West engines carry the higher numbers. Retirement years are the span Drury prints for the class, not a single scrap date.

TypeClassNumbersQtyBuilderBuiltRetiredNotes
0-4-0A450–660164PRR1906–19131927–1936Not sequential
0-4-0A5s76–403947PRR1916–19241930–1956Not sequential. Piston valves, power reverse, 131,750 lb
0-6-0—3687–36882Baldwin1907, 19131925–1926Ex-Cornwall & Lebanon
0-6-0—54111Baldwin19121928Ex-Baltimore & Sparrows Point
0-6-0B67045–935449PRR, Baldwin, Lima1910–19131948–1952Not sequential. About 170,000–180,000 lb
0-6-0B6sa3–622755PRR1913–19141949–1953Not sequential
0-6-0B6sb31–6400238PRR1916–19261949–1959Not sequential
0-6-0B815–9569247PRR, Lima19131929–1956Not sequential. About 140,000 lb
0-6-0B238777–87826Alco (Schenectady)19071926–1934—
0-6-0B28s7007–940530Alco (Pittsburgh, Cooke, Schenectady)1918–19191948–1953Not sequential. USRA
0-6-0B297028–9786135Alco (Pittsburgh, Richmond), Lima19131926–1930Not sequential. Lines West. About 135,000 lb
0-8-0C16550–663990PRR1925–19271948–1953Not sequential. 27×30 in, 56 in drivers, 78,107 lb tractive effort
0-8-8-0CC1s33971Baldwin19121931Pusher. Not repeated
0-8-8-0CC2s7250–935910Baldwin19191947–1949Not sequential. Lines West pushers and humps. Later all at Columbus, Ohio
2-6-0F27s8833–884311Alco (Schenectady)19071926–1928—
2-8-0H6b1–9988148Baldwin, PRR, Alco (Pittsburgh)1907–19131925–1953Not sequential. First modern Consolidation family after the 1906 H6
2-8-0H83193–321725PRR19071933–195624×28 in cylinders, 62 in drivers
2-8-0H8a7193–9886117PRR, Baldwin, Alco (Pittsburgh)1907–19111937–1956Not sequential
2-8-0H8b21–3577352PRR, Baldwin1908–19131934–1957Not sequential
2-8-0H8c7021–9989192Alco (Brooks, Pittsburgh), PRR1908–19131934–1957Not sequential
2-8-0H9s7–9999312———Not sequential. Converted from H8
2-8-0H9s24–5174274Baldwin, PRR1913–19141947–1958Not sequential. Lines East. 25×28 in, 62 in drivers
2-8-0H10s6073–9999200———Not sequential. Converted from H8
2-8-0H10s7001–9895273Alco (Pittsburgh, Brooks), Baldwin, Lima1913–1916By 1960Not sequential. Converted from H8. Lines West, 27×28 in, about 320,700 lb. Same boiler as the K4s
2-8-0H34a9602–96054Alco (Pittsburgh)19081925–1926—
2-8-0H34b9616–96194Alco (Pittsburgh)19101925–1926—
2-8-2L1s2–9866574Juniata, Baldwin, Lima1914–19191941–1959Not sequential. Juniata 344, Baldwin 205, Lima 25. Same boiler as the K4s. 520 preserved
2-8-2L2s9627–96315Alco (Schenectady)19191948USRA light. Five kept from an allotment of 38. Grand Rapids & Indiana
2-10-0I1s7901PRR19161956Test engine
2-10-0I1s30–6340122PRR1918–19191949–1959Not sequential. Juniata
2-10-0I1s4225–4699475Baldwin1922–19231949–1960Worthington BL feedwater heaters. 30½×32 in, 62 in drivers, 90,000 lb tractive effort, 386,100 lb. Class total 598
2-10-2N1s7008–986660Alco (Brooks), Baldwin1918–19191947–195035 Brooks, 1918; 25 Baldwin, 1919. Lines West. Grate 79.9 sq ft. 435,000 lb
2-10-2N2s7036–9859130Alco (Brooks), Baldwin19191948–1953USRA heavy. Belpaire fireboxes fitted after about four years
2-10-4J16150–617425PRR1943–19441957–1959C&O design. 70 in drivers, drop-coupler pilot, keystone number plate. Class total 125
2-10-4J1, J1a6401–6500100PRR1942–19431957–1959Altoona
2-8-8-0HC1s37001PRR19191929Single-expansion. Pusher. Not repeated
2-8-8-2HH1s33961Alco (Schenectady)19111928Pusher near Pittsburgh. Six ex-N&W Y3s were also classed HH1 in 1943; their numbers are not in this grid
4-4-0D16340–646040PRR1907–19081928–1935Not sequential
4-4-0D16d9821–98255PRR1907–19101925–1931—
4-4-2E2b7496–863470PRR19091924–1927Not sequential
4-4-2E2d6001–608332PRR19081931–1938Not sequential
4-4-2E3d10–644143PRR19081932–1946Not sequential
4-4-2E51002–983212PRR1910–19131937–1949Not sequential
4-4-2E65075, later 10671PRR19101950Experimental
4-4-2E6s13–608582PRR1912–19141948–1953Not sequential. 23½ in cylinders after superheat, 31,275 lb tractive effort. Two in 1912, eighty in 1914
4-4-2E23s8735–87384Alco (Schenectady)1907–19101928–1929—
4-4-2—6504, 65322Baldwin1907—Class letter blank on the grid
4-6-0G34b9530–95398Alco (Pittsburgh)1907–19091927–1928Not sequential
4-6-0G5s459–383240PRR19231948–1953Not sequential. E6 boiler, 68 in drivers
4-6-0G5s5700–574950PRR1924–19251949–1955Pennsylvania total 90. Another 31 were built for the Long Island
4-6-2K223–9999153PRR1910–19111931–1949Not sequential
4-6-2K2a86–854372PRR, Alco (Schenectady)1911–19131931–1949Not sequential. With K2 and K2sb, 227 Pacifics of the K2 family
4-6-2K2sb3371, 33752PRR19111934, 1931—
4-6-2K3s7004–866330Baldwin19131947–1949Lines West. Mechanical stokers
4-6-2K4s8–8378425PRR, Baldwin1914–19281947–1959Not sequential. 1914 prototype, 324 at Altoona 1917–1927, then 100 more (25 Juniata, 75 Baldwin) in 1927–1928. 1361 and 3750 preserved
4-6-2K55698–56992PRR, Baldwin19291952–1953One each. Baldwin engine had Caprotti valves, removed 1937. Both hand-fired. Not repeated
4-6-2K21s8701–871212Alco (Schenectady)1910–19131929–1930—
4-6-2K2870671Alco (Pittsburgh)19071933Experimental. 24×26 in, 80 in drivers, 273,600 lb
4-6-2K2933951Alco (Schenectady)19111929Experimental. 27×28 in, 80 in drivers, 317,000 lb. The size the K4s started from
4-8-2M14700, later 66991PRR19231950Prototype. I1 boiler, 27×30 in, 72 in drivers, 385,000 lb
4-8-2M16800–6999200Baldwin, Lima19261949–1959—
4-8-2M1a6700–6799100Baldwin, PRR, Lima19301951–1959Class total, with the prototype, 301
4-4-4-4T16110–61112Baldwin19421953Duplex prototypes
4-4-4-4T15500–554950PRR, Baldwin1945–19461952–1956Duplex
4-6-4-4Q161301PRR19421952Duplex. One driver-set reversed under the firebox. Not repeated
4-4-6-4Q261311PRR19441952Duplex prototype. Both driver-sets faced forward
4-4-6-4Q26175–619925PRR19451953–1956Duplex. Built at Altoona in place of 25 further J1s. All retired before any J1
6-4-4-6S161001PRR19391949Duplex
6-8-6S262001Baldwin19441952Direct-drive steam turbine
2-6-0—96631Griffith & Wedge19091928Narrow gauge. Ex-Ohio River & Western
2-6-0—96841Alco (Cooke)19161934Narrow gauge. Ex-Waynesburg & Washington
2-6-0—96871Alco (Cooke)19201934Narrow gauge. Ex-Waynesburg & Washington
4-6-0—96611Baldwin19101929Narrow gauge. Ex-Ohio River & Western

Sources

  • Drury, George H. Guide to North American Steam Locomotives. Revised edition. Waukesha: Kalmbach Books, 2015. Pages 267–271. The class grid and the fleet history.
  • Staufer, Alvin F. Pennsy Power: Steam and Electric Locomotives of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1900–1957. Reprint, Brattleboro: Echo Point Books & Media, 2019.
  • Westing, Frederick. Apex of the Atlantics. Milwaukee: Kalmbach, 1963.
  • Edson, William D. Keystone Steam & Electric. Wayner Publications, 1974.
  • Morrison, Tom. The American Steam Locomotive in the Twentieth Century. Jefferson: McFarland, 2019.
  • Schafer, Mike, and Brian Solomon. Pennsylvania Railroad. Osceola: MBI Publishing, 1997.
  • Railroad magazine, published rosters: July 1941, p. 50; August 1941, p. 50; September 1941, p. 89; October 1941, p. 60; November 1941, p. 77; December 1954, p. 22; August 1957, p. 36.
  • Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. prrths.com.

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    Nov 12, 26 12:22 PM

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    Union Pacific diesel roster with builder serials and order numbers. Alco, Baldwin, Fairbanks-Morse, Electro-Motive, and General Electric. Merger partners keep their own roster pages.

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  17. Escanaba & Lake Superior Weighs a Trail on the Wells Grade

    Nov 12, 26 12:15 PM

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    Michigan and the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad are discussing a sale of 60 miles of inactive grade between Wells and Channing for a trail, with the grade kept for possible rail use.

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  18. Oklahoma Railway Museum Repaints Santa Fe FP45 90

    Nov 12, 26 11:58 AM

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    The Oklahoma Railway Museum is repainting Santa Fe FP45 90 in the blue-and-yellow Freight Bonnet it wore as 5990. The museum does not plan to operate the locomotive.

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  19. Pullmans Move Toward a Chicago Home With a Norfolk Southern Switch

    Nov 12, 26 11:49 AM

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    Friends of the Pullman National Historical Park held a spike-setting on November 9, 2026. Norfolk Southern has installed a switch and committed $250,000 toward a future rail connection.

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  20. Sloss Furnaces Entrance Gets a Norfolk Southern Grant

    Nov 12, 26 11:44 AM

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    Norfolk Southern awarded a $146,460 Thriving Communities grant to the Sloss Furnaces Foundation for the 32nd Street entrance in Birmingham.

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  21. Union Pacific 2-10-2 5511 Passes Its First Steam Test

    Nov 12, 26 12:12 AM

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    Union Pacific 2-10-2 5511 passed a steam test at Silvis, Illinois. Railfan and Railroad reports a summer 2027 target. A November 6 Trains report had no immediate operating plan.

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  22. Union Pacific Steam Roster

    Nov 12, 26 12:03 AM

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    Union Pacific steam locomotives built since 1900. Oregon Short Line, Los Angeles and Salt Lake, and Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company numbers, with the 4-12-2s, Challengers, Big Boys…

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  23. Union Pacific Railroad: Map, History, Logo

    Nov 11, 26 11:56 PM

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    The Union Pacific, from the Pacific Railway Act of July 1, 1862, and Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869, through E. H. Harriman and the mergers that built the modern railroad. Steam and diesel rosters…

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  24. Texas and Pacific Railway: Map, History, Timetables

    Nov 10, 26 10:33 PM

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    The Texas & Pacific Railway, the federally chartered southern transcontinental that stopped at Sierra Blanca and became the Missouri Pacific's Texas and Louisiana main line. Merged October 15, 1976.

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  25. Texas and Pacific Steam Locomotives: Texas Types and Mountains

    Nov 10, 26 10:30 PM

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    Texas & Pacific steam: 70 Lima 2-10-4 Texas types, 600-669, classes I-1 through I-1d, and 10 Mountains, 900-909. No. 610 is at Palestine.

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  26. Texas and Pacific Diesel Roster (All-Time)

    Nov 10, 26 10:29 PM

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    All-time diesel roster of locomotives built for the Texas & Pacific. 246 units: E7s, E8s, 83 F7A and 35 F7B, NW2s, SW7s, SW8s, SW9s, GP7s, GP9s, GP18s, and GP35s. Serials and order numbers.

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  27. Santa Fe-Southern Pacific Railroad: Merger, History, Paint Scheme

    Nov 10, 26 10:07 PM

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    The proposed Santa Fe-Southern Pacific merger, from the 1980 attempt and the 1983 holding company through the ICC denial, the Kodachrome paint, and the sale of the Southern Pacific.

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  28. CSX Santa Train Will Feature Locomotives 250 and 2026

    Nov 10, 26 01:51 PM

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    The CSX Santa Train will feature locomotives 250 and 2026 on November 21, 2026. The 84th running covers 110 miles from Shelbiana, Kentucky, to Kingsport, Tennessee.

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  29. Denton County Asks to Extend Stadler Car Relief

    Nov 10, 26 01:05 PM

    Denton County Transit Authority has asked the FRA to extend a waiver for its Stadler diesel multiple-unit cars. Comments run to January 11, 2027.

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  30. FreightCar America Reports Third-Quarter Results

    Nov 10, 26 01:02 PM

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    FreightCar America reported third-quarter revenue of $76.5 million and 662 railcar deliveries. Backlog stood at 2,660 cars valued at $284.5 million.

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  31. Amtrak Has Filed a Train Control Amendment

    Nov 10, 26 12:53 PM

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    Amtrak asked the FRA on October 26, 2026, to amend the safety plan for its Interoperable Electronic Train Management System. Comments are due November 30, 2026.

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  32. SunRail Signal Waiver Is Open for Comment

    Nov 10, 26 12:25 PM

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    FRA has asked for comment on a petition to extend signal-testing relief on the Central Florida Rail Corridor. The notice names both the corridor and CSXT. Comments run to January 11, 2027.

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  33. Cars and Units Rose With BNSF Third-Quarter Earnings

    Nov 10, 26 12:18 PM

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    Berkshire Hathaway reports that after-tax BNSF earnings increased 19.3 percent in the third quarter of 2026, with car and unit volumes up 3.9 percent.

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  34. Amtrak Chicago Platforms Are Moving Toward Level Boarding

    Nov 10, 26 12:13 PM

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    Amtrak says construction is underway soon on the first level boarding platforms at Chicago Union Station, a 112 million dollar, 30-month project.

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  35. Maryland Has New Penn Line Times on November 16

    Nov 10, 26 12:07 PM

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    MARC Penn Line schedules change on November 16, 2026, after Amtrak trains return to regular schedules. Weekend southbound trains are unchanged.

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  36. Building Contract for Metrolink Sidings Goes to Granite

    Nov 10, 26 12:00 PM

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    Granite says Metrolink awarded a 51.5 million dollar SCORE contract for sidings near downtown Los Angeles and in Rancho Cucamonga.

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  37. EMD "F2" Locomotives: Specs, Roster, History

    Nov 10, 26 12:22 AM

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    EMD F2, the 1,350-horsepower bridge between the FT and the F3. 104 locomotives, July through November 1946. Spotting features, specifications, and the production roster.

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  38. Southern Pacific Diesel Roster (All-Time)

    Nov 10, 26 12:08 AM

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    Southern Pacific diesel roster with builder serials, order numbers, Texas and New Orleans numbers, and the 1965 renumbering. Alco, Baldwin, Fairbanks-Morse, Electro-Motive, General Electric, Krauss-Ma…

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  39. Southern Pacific Steam Roster: Post 1900

    Nov 09, 26 11:56 PM

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    Southern Pacific steam locomotives built since 1900. Pacific Lines, Texas and Louisiana Lines, cab-forwards, the GS 4-8-4s, and five narrow-gauge Ten-Wheelers. The quantity column counts the rows as p…

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  40. Canal Street Yard Assessment Stays Open Through December 7

    Nov 09, 26 01:07 PM

    The FRA signed the Canal Street Yard environmental assessment on November 6, 2026. Public inspection runs through December 7, and meeting dates are not confirmed.

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  41. NS Legacy Cab-Signal Comments Are Due November 9

    Nov 09, 26 01:05 PM

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    The FRA must receive comments by November 9, 2026, on a Norfolk Southern plan to drop legacy cab signals on 14 line segments and rely on positive train control.

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  42. Elimination Grant of $27.8 Million Reaches Scott Road in Allen County

    Nov 09, 26 12:53 PM

    Allen County received $27,878,116, also stated as $27.8 million, to design and build a grade separation where Scott Road crosses Norfolk Southern.

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  43. Vermont Receives $60.3 Million for the Western Corridor

    Nov 09, 26 12:45 PM

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    Vermont will receive $60.3 million to rehabilitate about 60 miles of the Western Corridor. The delegation quote also calls the sum $60 million.

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  44. Burlingame Grade Separation Wins a Federal Grant

    Nov 09, 26 10:42 AM

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    Rep. Kevin Mullin said on November 5, 2026 that the FRA awarded $90.4 million for the Caltrain Broadway grade separation in Burlingame. Early work is expected in May 2027.

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  45. Orange County Rail Line Gets a Coastal Permit

    Nov 09, 26 10:18 AM

    The California Coastal Commission on November 5, 2026 approved a 10-year permit for the San Clemente rail line, including about 690,000 cubic yards of sand.

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  46. Railroad Quiet Zones Are Reinstated in St. Louis

    Nov 09, 26 10:14 AM

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    St. Louis said on November 6, 2026 that the FRA reinstated the city quiet zones. Horns are to stop after railroad systems are updated.

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  47. Southern Pacific Railroad: Map, History, Logo

    Nov 08, 26 01:58 PM

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    The Southern Pacific, from the December 2, 1865 charter and the Big Four to Sprint, the Rio Grande Industries purchase of 1988, and the Union Pacific merger of February 1, 1997.

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  48. California Awards Flexible Rail Aid to Nine Projects

    Nov 08, 26 01:15 PM

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    CalSTA on November 5, 2026 awarded $66.58 million in flexible State Rail Assistance to nine California projects. Each amount in the summary is a cap, printed as up to.

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  49. CSX Leaves Three Days Out of the Weekly Reports

    Nov 08, 26 12:02 PM

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    CSX told the Surface Transportation Board it cannot recover October 27-29 data for the EP 724 and EP 787 reports covering the week ending October 30, 2026.

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  50. NJ Transit Advances Three Station Housing Projects

    Nov 08, 26 11:56 AM

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    NJ Transit on November 5, 2026 advanced station projects in Jersey City, Bound Brook, and Morristown. The three are projected to add more than 1,000 homes.

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