Nostalgia & History > Last steam use on the Pennsy

What was the last run of steam on the Pennsy
in regular service - locomotive, date, location, etc.
Quite certain it was in November, 1957.

This question excludes the 0-6-0 that ran later on-lease.

NS1703 Wrote:
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> What was the last run of steam on the Pennsy
> in regular service - locomotive, date, location,
> etc.
> Quite certain it was in November, 1957.
>
> This question excludes the 0-6-0 that ran later
> on-lease.


It was probably on the NY&LB.

Bob

Seems there was an article in Classic Trains a couple years ago about a steam engine running on the Pemberton Branch of the PRR in New Jersey in the last 1950s.

According to Lloyd Stagner in his book American Steam Finale, the last Pennsy steam run was 12/2/1957 when L-1 class 2-8-2 2369 ran from Phillipston to Renovo. The last NY&LB run was 10/27/57 and the last Pennsylvania Reading Seashore lines run was 11/12/57.

As NS1703 points out, a Pennsy 0-6-0 last ran while on lease to the Union Transportation Co. on 7/17/59.

Best regards,
RL Cabin



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/12 18:55 by RLcabin.

Did the Pennsy keep a few steamers available for use even after that? I seem to remember seeing the occasional steam locomotive on the Pennsy in the late 1950s in Whiting, IN. Of course, I was in grade school then and it was long ago...

The 0-6-0's that Virginia Blue Ridge ran, didn't they have Pennsy roots? They ran into the sixties
as I remember.

refresh me on the santa fe lease period. it is in the archeives

Did not another author (Boyd) say that it was an I-1 on a coal run from Cresson to Altoona in 57 ?