Steam & Excursion > A Bloat

The date attributed to the first image is erroneous, as it is impossible to photograph a locomotive two years before it is built. On the point is 4353, a 1922 product of Eddystone, and behind the cabin is 4239, also a Baldwin, was built the following year. The trailing I1s is not identifiable, but it offers an idea of what watching westbound traffic ascend the Allegheny Mountains must have been like. 
Photo credits John S. Powell and the Library of Congress, Bruce Fales collection
Be of good cheer,
—Mac
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Photo one does a great job of conveying the meaning of "power."
Bob

Clean stacks all 3 firemen are good and have a co-operating engineer.

Sam

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> Clean stacks all 3 firemen are good and have a
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Well, at full throttle and the valve gear almost down in the corner, not all that difficult to fire such a coal burner.

Thanks for sharing Pennsylvania RR heavy duty steam engines working the coal traffic back in the 1920's.  Impressive photography for that time.

Two class I1 2-10-0 "Hippo" pushers, each shoving with 90,000 (I1s) to 96,000 (I1sa) lbs tractive effort, is a lot of force behind the all-steel cabin car. OK so long as everything stays on the rails. 

Southern Pacific placed rear-end helper locomotive(s) immediately ahead of the caboose, for caboose crew safety.

- Doug Debs

Second photo looks like it was posed judging by both firemen and the direction of smoke.