A Facebook post with photos of a new slope back tender construction for PRR 0-6-0 B6sa #60. According the post, the cosmetic tender was made at Mellinger Manufacturing, using the frame from the old tender and was based on PRR drawings. The post, for those without access to FB, says the tender will be on display in Lewes, DE, for their National Train Day event in May.

https://www.facebook.com/PennsylvaniaRailroad60

Bob

Did that say B6sa? That's the relatively rare B6 with a radial stay firebox rather than the classic PRR Belpaire firebox.

Washington Terminal used B6sa's. Was 60 a W.T.Co. engine?

Phil Mulligan

Yes, B6sa. Every diehard PRR steam fan knows the distinction. The history of how 60 ended up under a Turnpike bridge near Pittsburgh and then went to the Wilmington & Western in 1983 has been rehashed elsewhere.

WT did use PRR-design B6sa's and C1 0-8-0s, but they were all numbered below the 40-66 of the Alco RS1s that showed up starting in 1944.

Even those who prefer wide fireboxes know the distinction. BTW, those RS1's were righteous motors themselves.

Phil Mulligan