I'm looking for info regarding the following surviving PRR steamers:

#60 0-6-0 B6sa in Hockessin, DE
0-6-0 in Nassau, DE
0-4-0 in Monacacy Station, PA

I understand #60 is/was a part of a museum called the Avondale Railroad Center, Delaware Project in Hockessin along the Wilmington and Western's right of way. It was displayed with 2 Reading coaches, a PRR baggage car, and a UP caboose. I've never been there, does this museum still exist? Any pictures by chance of #60 today?

The other 2 locomotives I have no idea what the story is on them, I don't even know their numbers let alone the class they belong too. The museum in Delaware claims #60 to be the last surviving PRR 0-6-0 of the B6sa class (radially stayed firebox). I believe (though I may be wrong) the RRMofPA claims #1670 to be the last surviving B6sb (Belpaire firebox), so I'm interested to know what class the other surviving 0-6-0 belongs to. Perhaps #60 and the mystery 0-6-0 are one and the same? As for the other 0-4-0, I would think it would resemble #94 in Strasburg (class A5s), but I don't know for sure. Thanks for any available info and/or corrections.

Jim Montague

> I'm looking for info regarding the following
> surviving PRR steamers:

> #60 0-6-0 B6sa in Hockessin, DE
> 0-6-0 in Nassau, DE

NOT a PRR steamer. It's #3, a Vulcan product of 1942, built for the US Navy and later used at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, the Wawa & Concordville, and the Wilmington & Western before moving to the Queen Anne's RR, a now-defunct tourist operation out of Lewes. The loco sits on a siding near the Nassau Vineyards and Winery (hence the "Nassau, DE"); I saw it two weeks ago with small trees growing around/through it.

> 0-4-0 in Monacacy Station, PA

The closest that matches this is MonOcacy, a station on the former PRR (now gone) between Pottstown and Reading. There were a bunch of 42" gauge 0-4-0Ts near nearby Phoenixville, but even if one migrated to Monocacy to a private estate, no way can it be PRR.



lner4472@bcpl.net

> I'm looking for info regarding the following
> surviving PRR steamers:

> #60 0-6-0 B6sa in Hockessin, DE
> 0-6-0 in Nassau, DE
> 0-4-0 in Monacacy Station, PA

> ... As for the other
> 0-4-0, I would think it would resemble #94
> in Strasburg (class A5s), but I don't know
> for sure. Thanks for any available info
> and/or corrections.

Awhile back I recieved an e-mail relating to me that there were three PRR locomotives at the Dires Quarry, Rte 724 & Red Shed Rd., Monocacy Station. One was said to be an Bas class 0-4-0; the others were a pair of PRR 0-4-0Ts. They were said to partly sunk.

The person who related this to me was reliable in other updates that he sent my way, so I listed these (with the note that they were rumors) in "Surviving World Steam Locomotives". But I could not find anyone or any source to back him up. I could see the quarry on Microsoft's Terraserver, but no signs of any of the lokies.

Since that time, I have heard that the PRR Bas 0-4-0 was on display in Monocacy Station. But I have yet to see a photograph or any further details. No word either on the other two PRR 0-4-0Ts.

Is this an urban legend, or is it all true? Surely it would be fairly easy to find out; Monocacy Station, PA is a bit too far for me to drive and check it out.

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

Surviving World Steam Locomotives
james1@pernet.net

Thanks, that makes sense. My sourse of information for the Nassau 0-6-0 is steamlocomotive.com, which lists 2 engines there, one the #3 0-6-0T ex U.S. Navy, the other an 0-6-0 ex PRR. Obviously they must be the same engine. the PRR 0-6-0 in Nassau must be the Vulcan #3 tank engine. Sad to hear #3 is growing trees up around her. I understand she was running as late as the mid 90's.

Jim Montague