What is your favorite PRR Steam Locomotive ???

A tie between the K4 Pacifics and the mighty T1.

Joe P :D
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Class F3c Moguls. Like this one.

If there is a single class of steam motive power that better fits that descripition, I'll challenge anyone to name it...here's why.

The J-1 was a creation of a wartime emergency, a proven design from Lima, the creator of Super Power, fleshed out and built by the Standard Railroad of the World, in the ultimate railroad town.

After spending its first years in the defense of democracy, it toiled for the remainder of its career fueling the postwar boom that would make it obsolete before its time.

Unencumbered by the experimental refinements that would doom the duplex-drives, it would endure to make the trip to the steel mills with the I's, K's, L's and M's 15 to 30 years its senior.

While it's regrettable that preservation eluded the J-1, this also contributes to its mystique; small wonder that the reproduction of Pennsy's 1944 calendar was incorporated into PRRT&HS' response to the events of 9/11/01.

Mine is the E-6s 4-4-2. Next are the G-5s 4-6-0 and the K-5 4-6-2.

I kitbashed an excellent model of the E-6s in HO scale by combing the chassis from the Bowser kit with the boiler, cab, and tender from the Roundhouse kit.

I'm toying with the idea of building a K-5 by combining the boiler and cab from the Bowser I-1s with the chassis from the Bowser K-4s.


Stuart

I'm a G5 fan, being of LIRR extraction. I love the G's, but probably the I1sa would have knocked me over when it was running slowly and towing a load.

Hands down, the A5s. It says PENNSY all the way, will fit in my driveway, AND I could build a full size one if I had a big enough garage.

Hmm, I like K-4's, T-1's and last, but not least the chunky hippos, I-1's. Pennsy had some amazing steam engines. A-5 is one PRR steamer I don't know of. What did it look and what was the wheel arrangement?

Hi All,

My favorites are the ones that I have in my HO gauge stable. I have an H-9 consolidation, an I-1s Decapod, and an L-1s Mikado. I have also modified a ten wheeler to resemble a G-5s. All are great running engines and are very much in operating condition. Cannot say that for the 1:1 scale.

My facorite steam is a tie between these 3 types

J1/I1/M1

My favorite of all is the I1. Then it would go to M1a, M1b, L1, and all of the H class. My reason is because of where I live. These were the primary freight haulers.

hands down Ti 4-4-4-4. BIG mean Loco.

T1, too bad none survived and the upset, G5 4-6-0 especially 5741.

I have to go with the K4 its what I think of when I think Pennsy steam.

I grew up along the NY&LB and I'm just old enough to remember the end of PRR steam. Seeing them on a semi-regular basis back then, I have to lean toward the K4. I remember my grandmother yelling about her white sheets out on the line as she heard a K4 pull out from Belmar station, we then lived two blocks south of the station, right at trackside. She (and her laundry) hated PRR steam! Instant dark gray laundry!

Never saw other Pennsy power in operation until I rode behind D16 #1223 at Strasburg, so the D-series 4-4-0 would in be second place.

Big Jay for the win!...King of Pennsy steam.....second choice; modernized T1, and to get really specific...PRR 5500 with
Franklin rotary "B" gear !