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PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
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Author:  Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Sat May 11, 2024 3:33 pm ]
Post subject:  PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
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

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Author:  o anderson [ Sat May 11, 2024 6:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
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
Author:  hankmum [ Sat May 11, 2024 9:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
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.
Author:  EJ Berry [ Sat May 11, 2024 10:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
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
Author:  Ed Kapuscinski [ Tue May 14, 2024 10:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
EJ Berry wrote:
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.
Author:  Jennie K [ Tue May 14, 2024 2:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
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.
Author:  EJ Berry [ Tue May 14, 2024 11:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
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.
Author:  Frisco1522 [ Sat May 18, 2024 9:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
Actually she doesn't look bad after being submerged in that quarry all those years.
Author:  Richard Glueck [ Sun May 19, 2024 8:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
Boy, are you ever confused! The original goober who reported that locomotive said it was a B8a tank locomotive. He stood on it during low water! True facts! Or ...alternative facts?
Author:  QJdriver [ Sun May 19, 2024 10:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
Beats me. I don't have a Six Worm Handicap.
Author:  Overmod [ Sun May 19, 2024 11:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
Quote:
"Beats me. I don't have a Six Worm Handicap."


Does that mean, after all, that you're not going to fire Audrey with tequila?
Author:  QJdriver [ Mon May 20, 2024 12:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
Overmod wrote:
Does that mean, after all, that you're not going to fire Audrey with tequila?

It's late, I'm tired, and the chemo is dragging me down, so I don't have a sufficiently wise ass answer ready at hand. Maybe I need to eat a few more worms. But, in all seriousness, I already have a good use for good Tequila.

Any more questions ??
Author:  Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Mon May 20, 2024 1:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
QJdriver wrote:
Any more questions ??


Did Adam and Eve have navels?
Author:  Overmod [ Mon May 20, 2024 10:13 am ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
Quote:
"Did Adam and Eve have navels?"

They did if God made them that way.

Are you trying to rib poor Mr. King when he's on chemo? For shame...
Author:  QJdriver [ Mon May 20, 2024 11:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: PRR B6sa 0-6-0 60 Finally Starts Towards New Home
Overmod wrote:
For shame...

It could have been worse. At least nobody so far has accused me of drinking "Tequila with worms in it".
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