Here’s a current work in progress model of PRR’s D16 1223! Full reveal coming soon!
October 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Here’s a current work in progress model of PRR’s D16 1223! Full reveal coming soon!
Also probably a consideration: The now A-division trains are smaller than the rail cars of the era, so the PATH tunnels (engineered and then only partially built before the PRR's) would have been smaller and probably easier to build than the East and North River tubes.
May 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Also probably a consideration: The now A-division trains are smaller than the rail cars of the era, so the PATH tunnels (engineered and then only partially built before the PRR's) would have been smaller and probably easier to build than the East and North River tubes.
heres another oddball, PRR's HC-1
this 2-8-8-0 was built in 1919, and it was WAY ahead of its time. this single engine had all of the things that you would see in the "super power" era or steam.
oh, and not to mention that it was literally stronger than a UP Big Boy, with 167,325 pounds of force.
this 2-8-8-0 was built in 1919, and it was WAY ahead of its time. this single engine had all of the things that you would see in the "super power" era or steam.
oh, and not to mention that it was literally stronger than a UP Big Boy, with 167,325 pounds of force.
January 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
heres another oddball, PRR's HC-1
this 2-8-8-0 was built in 1919, and it was WAY ahead of its time. this single engine had all of the things that you would see in the "super power" era or steam.
oh, and not to mention that it was literally stronger than a UP Big Boy, with 167,325 pounds of force.
this 2-8-8-0 was built in 1919, and it was WAY ahead of its time. this single engine had all of the things that you would see in the "super power" era or steam.
oh, and not to mention that it was literally stronger than a UP Big Boy, with 167,325 pounds of force.
We can take the train from Pittsburgh to NY now, through Philly, it just takes too long. Pennsylvania Railroad used to run an overnight dinner and party train both ways a century ago, and they should do it again www.cruiselinehistory.com/travel-the-p...
Travel the Past: PRR’s Pittsburgher overnight All Pullman Streamliner between New York and Pittsburg
The Pittsburgher was a premiere passenger train operated between New York City and Pittsburgh, P...
www.cruiselinehistory.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM
We can take the train from Pittsburgh to NY now, through Philly, it just takes too long. Pennsylvania Railroad used to run an overnight dinner and party train both ways a century ago, and they should do it again www.cruiselinehistory.com/travel-the-p...
The Position Light: LINCOLN Lefty: Story of the PRR's Left Handed Dwarfs position-light.blogspot.com/2025/09/linc... #PRR #PositionLight #DwarfSignal
LINCOLN Lefty: Story of the PRR's Left Handed Dwarfs
Anyone looking at the NORAC signal aspect charts may have noticed that the familiar PRR dwarf position lights have a curve to them (or yaw)...
position-light.blogspot.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
The Position Light: LINCOLN Lefty: Story of the PRR's Left Handed Dwarfs position-light.blogspot.com/2025/09/linc... #PRR #PositionLight #DwarfSignal
This was more or less the PRR’s vision at one point, probably minus the electric part. Montauk to Pittsburgh, that sort of thing.
February 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
This was more or less the PRR’s vision at one point, probably minus the electric part. Montauk to Pittsburgh, that sort of thing.
It's fascinating how all the poster boys of the Third Way, arguably the killers of Social Demorcacy (for short-term gains) - Blair, Schröder, Miller - all became despicable lapdogs of the populist radical right (or Putin), pandering to PRR's worst instincts and demands.
May 27, 2026 at 7:51 AM
It's fascinating how all the poster boys of the Third Way, arguably the killers of Social Demorcacy (for short-term gains) - Blair, Schröder, Miller - all became despicable lapdogs of the populist radical right (or Putin), pandering to PRR's worst instincts and demands.
I heard someone describe PRR’s catenary as putting up trolley wire
July 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM
I heard someone describe PRR’s catenary as putting up trolley wire
#1950s #PRR #NewJersey #History Pennsylvania Railroad K4s Pacific 612 at South Amboy yard in 1957, This was when the K4s were on the verge of retirement with 425 built between World War I in 1914 to 1928 by PRR's Juniata Shops and Baldwin
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
#1950s #PRR #NewJersey #History Pennsylvania Railroad K4s Pacific 612 at South Amboy yard in 1957, This was when the K4s were on the verge of retirement with 425 built between World War I in 1914 to 1928 by PRR's Juniata Shops and Baldwin
Prester and the other cogs are small potatoes compared to a deceitful cretin like Me. Zero. At least Prester seems to care about the PRR's freedom.
#toontown #toonyfollies
#toontown #toonyfollies
August 30, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Prester and the other cogs are small potatoes compared to a deceitful cretin like Me. Zero. At least Prester seems to care about the PRR's freedom.
#toontown #toonyfollies
#toontown #toonyfollies
Most of the PRR's more complex geometry is specialwork that doesn't meet any international standard, and because of poor commuter/Amtrak coordination much of it has no hope of ever being truly modernized!
March 14, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Most of the PRR's more complex geometry is specialwork that doesn't meet any international standard, and because of poor commuter/Amtrak coordination much of it has no hope of ever being truly modernized!
We financed the completion of much of the PRR’s electrification system!
January 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
We financed the completion of much of the PRR’s electrification system!
I haven't found much on any passenger service plans/proposals (the Glassboro-Camden Line sucks up most of air in the room for new service in South Jersey) but here's extensive history on the Pennsy Atlantic Div., also known unofficially as the "Back Road":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iqb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iqb...
The PRR’s Back Road: Philadelphia and Camden to Pemberton and beyond
YouTube video by West Jersey Chapter NRHS
www.youtube.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I haven't found much on any passenger service plans/proposals (the Glassboro-Camden Line sucks up most of air in the room for new service in South Jersey) but here's extensive history on the Pennsy Atlantic Div., also known unofficially as the "Back Road":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iqb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iqb...
Arguably it was because most of PRR's management all believed they were the main character is why they dragged themselves to doom!
The Central knew what it was doing, but it was charmingly thin financially by '68.
The Central knew what it was doing, but it was charmingly thin financially by '68.
January 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Arguably it was because most of PRR's management all believed they were the main character is why they dragged themselves to doom!
The Central knew what it was doing, but it was charmingly thin financially by '68.
The Central knew what it was doing, but it was charmingly thin financially by '68.
In #APRIL 1932
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N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) writes of his ‘The First White House’ (ca.1930), commissioned for the Pennsylvania Railroad, in the PRR’s Publication, *The Mutual Magazine*: ‘President Washington’s interest in the erection of the building was constant throughout the➡️
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N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) writes of his ‘The First White House’ (ca.1930), commissioned for the Pennsylvania Railroad, in the PRR’s Publication, *The Mutual Magazine*: ‘President Washington’s interest in the erection of the building was constant throughout the➡️
April 28, 2026 at 1:01 PM
In #APRIL 1932
🧵👇
N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) writes of his ‘The First White House’ (ca.1930), commissioned for the Pennsylvania Railroad, in the PRR’s Publication, *The Mutual Magazine*: ‘President Washington’s interest in the erection of the building was constant throughout the➡️
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N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) writes of his ‘The First White House’ (ca.1930), commissioned for the Pennsylvania Railroad, in the PRR’s Publication, *The Mutual Magazine*: ‘President Washington’s interest in the erection of the building was constant throughout the➡️
Welcome to the NEC, the one part of PRR's intercity network we actually kept intact and invested in! Conductors here won't hold your hand, if you snooze you *will* miss your stop! Enjoy the main fine choices from the cafe car: "It's better than going hungry™"
June 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Welcome to the NEC, the one part of PRR's intercity network we actually kept intact and invested in! Conductors here won't hold your hand, if you snooze you *will* miss your stop! Enjoy the main fine choices from the cafe car: "It's better than going hungry™"
PRR's NEC from Washington to NY was world class in the 1930's, we had engineers from all over visiting to inspect it. Then we just...did nothing at all to improve it until the 1990's.
January 7, 2026 at 2:54 AM
PRR's NEC from Washington to NY was world class in the 1930's, we had engineers from all over visiting to inspect it. Then we just...did nothing at all to improve it until the 1990's.
I honestly love these panels since they kinda look like old CTC switchboards
March 4, 2024 at 3:19 AM
I honestly love these panels since they kinda look like old CTC switchboards
For my second drawing of a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive, it's one that I've been eager to draw for a while. So here is my drawing of the legendary GG1 in the PRR's Tuscan Red livery.
Reference Image: www.american-rails.com/images/91805...
Drawing C) Me
Reference Image: www.american-rails.com/images/91805...
Drawing C) Me
September 5, 2026 at 2:31 PM
For my second drawing of a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive, it's one that I've been eager to draw for a while. So here is my drawing of the legendary GG1 in the PRR's Tuscan Red livery.
Reference Image: www.american-rails.com/images/91805...
Drawing C) Me
Reference Image: www.american-rails.com/images/91805...
Drawing C) Me
For locos comparable to the electrics, speed and power had to be considered, and Superpower steam simply wasn’t enough
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
For locos comparable to the electrics, speed and power had to be considered, and Superpower steam simply wasn’t enough
PGH's rail corridors largely follow rivers & valleys. Between downtown and the East End, the PRR's main line tracks a series of ravines and valleys, remnants of a preglacial course of the Monongahela, skirting north of Oakland.
www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-...
www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-...
How ancestral rivers carved up — and flattened — Pittsburgh
The large arc of flat land curving through Pittsburgh's East End seems out of place, but it's actually an ancient riverbed marking where the Allegheny and Monongahela once flowed.
www.wesa.fm
October 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
PGH's rail corridors largely follow rivers & valleys. Between downtown and the East End, the PRR's main line tracks a series of ravines and valleys, remnants of a preglacial course of the Monongahela, skirting north of Oakland.
www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-...
www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-...
14. PRR’s Susquehanna, Bush and gunpowder bridges
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
14. PRR’s Susquehanna, Bush and gunpowder bridges
4-9-67, an eastbound Pennsylvania Railroad freight train derailed right in front of the Passenger Station. It's possible that the F-39B TrailerTrain flatcar nearest to the cameraman was built in the PRR's 12th Street Car Shops, across the tracks. Photo credit: Altoona PA History. T.C. Ayers
December 25, 2024 at 10:48 PM
4-9-67, an eastbound Pennsylvania Railroad freight train derailed right in front of the Passenger Station. It's possible that the F-39B TrailerTrain flatcar nearest to the cameraman was built in the PRR's 12th Street Car Shops, across the tracks. Photo credit: Altoona PA History. T.C. Ayers
Photos from the May 24th Iron Horse Ramble pulled by Reading and Northern’s steam locomotive #2102. I did a more relaxed chase this time, just chasing the train on the return trip from Jim Thorpe back to Reading, PA. #steamtrain #steamlocomotive #jimthorpe #tamaqua #readingpa
June 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Photos from the May 24th Iron Horse Ramble pulled by Reading and Northern’s steam locomotive #2102. I did a more relaxed chase this time, just chasing the train on the return trip from Jim Thorpe back to Reading, PA. #steamtrain #steamlocomotive #jimthorpe #tamaqua #readingpa
During the early to mid-20th century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was renowned for its technological innovation and operational efficiency. Among its many groundbreaking advancements, the PRR developed the ‚Trainphone’ system, a unique and pioneering communication technology.
The Trainphone: PRR's Wireless Radio System
The "Trainphone" was the Pennsylvania Railroad's early, custom-designed wireless radio system invented in the late 1930s. It was later replaced by modern radio.
www.american-rails.com
December 29, 2024 at 12:53 PM
During the early to mid-20th century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was renowned for its technological innovation and operational efficiency. Among its many groundbreaking advancements, the PRR developed the ‚Trainphone’ system, a unique and pioneering communication technology.