The Lindberg engine, at Morris Park, NJ, April 15, 1938:

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?j ... prr460.jpg

And at Jamaica, NY, February 13, 1937:

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?j ... rr460a.jpg

Dumb question from a left-coaster:

Why is this called the "Lindberg" engine?

Thanks as always.

Scott

http://www.rrmuseumpa.org/membership/mi ... omemos.htm



Pennsylvania Railroad Memorandum, Philadelphia, June 13, 1927, from D. M. Sheaffer, Chief of Passenger Transportation, to M. W. Clement, Vice President, Operations:

A special train for the International News Reel Corporation was operated from Washington, June 11, 1927, for the transportation of motion picture films of the reception to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh at Washington....

PRR Atlantic No. 460 was coupled to B-60-B baggage car No. 7874 and P-70 passenger coach No. 3301.

In the quest to be the first to bring the historic film of the Lindbergh ceremonies to New York City’s Broadway theaters, other newsreel companies had chartered planes to fly film northward. But the International News Reel Corporation was determined to transport its film by train, as it had successfully done after President Coolidge’s inauguration two years earlier.

Aboard the passenger car were officials of the three PRR divisions the train would cross. The locomotive, built in 1914, was the line’s newest E6. It had been chosen for the run at the direction of Pennsy General Manager E. W. Smith, who had specified a recently overhauled locomotive that had been operated for a week or two to get any kinks out of it. Number 460, having come out of refurbishing at the Wilmington shops 10 days earlier, filled the bill.

The films—developed, edited, and copied on board—were on theater screens within fifteen minutes, beating those that came by plane by a good hour. Thus did No. 460 earn its reputation as the locomotive that beat the plane, forever after being known as the “Lindbergh Engine.”