https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beGcxvjK1w4

Long-neglected PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60, first "saved" by the Wilmington & Western in 1983, begins the first step towards its future home in Lewes, Delaware, being moved on Thursday from a storage siding at Yorklyn on the Wilmington & Western to the railroad's Marshallton Shops for planned cosmetic restoration before movement to Lewes.

More on the group taking it to Lewes:

https://lewesjunctionrr.org/

https://www.facebook.com/ljrba

Fascinating and wonderful news! Was this a USRA design? No Belpaire boiler was used. I believe the flatcar following the locomotive and its long tender, is in fact another tender frame with its trucks. The trucks look similar to what I have seen on some New England locomotives. The load mounted on the flatcar that follows that, a couple back, may also be tender trucks. I wonder what the story is with those - were these items in storage as well?

The group photo of the Lewes organization shows a balanced participation of young and old, men and women.


May 11, 2024 is a red letter (red roof?) day for PRR fans.
O. Anderson

No USRA design here....Some PRR B6 classes were both built with and without the Belpaire. B6sb with, B6sa without. Most were B6sb. They also built several without the Belpaire for Washington Terminal. PRR did though have some USRA designed 0-6-0s. Those were class B28.

Here's the 60 at South Philadelphia in 1949. Note the shifter tender.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopi ... x?id=96743

Yes, it has a radial stay firebox as a B6sa. The more common B6sb has the Belpaire firebox.

Phil Mulligan

Wow, A B6 looks so... naked without the belpaire.

Until management combined mechanical depts, Pennsy Lines West put their own spin on locomotives used west of Pittsburgh. Most of the power ordered for Lines West had radial stayed fireboxes, regardless who actually built them. The most famous of them was the original 7002, which had a radial stayed firebox, compared to the "replacement" that now bears that number.

The original PRR 7002 was built for Lines West service on the Ft. Wayne (Chicago) line. This engine had a radial stay firebox as class E2. It was rebuilt to class E7sa with piston valves and scrapped in 1935.

PRR 8063 was also built for Lines West service, but on the Panhandle (St. Louis) line, This engine had a Belpaire firebox as class E2a. It was rebuilt to class E7s with piston valves, then renumbered 7002(2) for the 1939-1940 NY Worlds Fair, and has been 7002 since. This is the engine at RRMPA.

So-first radial stay, then Belpaire.

Phil Mulligan

Yes, the Panhandle also got to Chicago via Columbus.