PRR 9684

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:40 pm

At Canton, Ohio, no date. From the Waynesburg & Washington narrow gauge.

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... rr9684.jpg

Tom Richards · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:04 am **Posts:** 137

Bob, can you clarify your comment? How does that narrow gauge relate to the PRR? Great classic locomotive, kind of pre-steroids.

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:48 am

Long story short, built 1875-77, PRR bought parent Chartiers RR in 1885 and in so doing got the W&W with it; it remained in operation as a PRR subsidiary until 1933; PRR converted what was left to standard gauge in 1943-44. The company and what little track was left went to Conrail in 1976.

9684 is former W&W 4, Cooke 55847 1916.

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