Steam & Excursion > N&W J on PRR

I read a couple sentences about the Pennsylvania testing out an N&W J and doing some fast running on the Fort Wayne Division "racetrack" back in the 50s.

I remembered this old thread http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,2723264,2725109#msg-2725109 and thought maybe a J did go up the Valley Line to Hagerstown on the way?

Very interesting story about the Pennsy T-1's in the latest Classic Trains' Steam Glory No.3.

Covers many trials and tests, but they were just too good and were replaced by diesels on the day they were out shopped.

--Jim Baker

5-String Wrote:
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> I read a couple sentences about the Pennsylvania
> testing out an N&W J and doing some fast running
> on the Fort Wayne Division "racetrack" back in the
> 50s.
>
> I remembered this old thread
> http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,
> 2723264,2725109#msg-2725109 and thought maybe a J
> did go up the Valley Line to Hagerstown on the
> way?


For the tests you mention (between Ft. Wayne and Chicago), it seems much more likely that the J was handed over to PRR at Columbus, then run north to Bucyrus.