Pennsylvania RR K4s #5354
Ft Wayne, Indiana
December 1947
Photographer unknown (collection of Dave Witty)
Mid Century Illustrated Pennsylvania RR Illustrated ad by charles coriaty
Source: flickr.com
From Classic Trains: “Seen from the Roosevelt Road viaduct, Soo Line 2-8-0 No. 468 pulls out of Grand Central Station with a transfer run in June 1953. Directly above the engine, across the Chicago River, is the Pennsylvania Railroad’s massive Polk Street freight house.”
Chicago
Photo by Robert R. Malinoski
“Pennsylvania Railroad planned and designed Chicago Union Station, which was shared with co-owners Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Milwaukee Road. PRR’s flagship train was its famed exclusive overnight Broadway Limited between Chicago and New York City. It is seen here departing Union Station in June 1961.”
Photo by Richard Jay Solomon
From Classic Trains:
“Pennsylvania Railroad class T1 4-4-4-4 duplex 5536 shows the effects of hard service at Chicago in the late 1940s, but the engine is in fact less than five years old.”
Caption: “Another ‘cold and grey Chicago morn’ on the South Side finds an FM H24-66, or so my notes say, still lettered as PRR 6700, switching Penn Central's 59th Street Yard.”
Chicago
November 9, 1969
Photo by Paul Enenbach
Source: Flickr / enenquack
Caption: “Only a month before, this would have been a shot of the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad. But the Pennsy is well represented as if the fateful merger had not happened, as these four PRR U25c's (6503-6502-6500-6509) lead a northbound freight approaching the N&W (NKP) and EJ&E crossings and Burnham Tower. They left the ‘Panhandle’ route of the PRR at ‘Bernice’, evidently coming up from the Indianapolis mainline, and will in a few miles approach ‘Colehour’ on the southeast side of Chicago, where the mainline from Pittsburgh will be joined.”
Burnham, Illinois
March 9, 1968
Photo by Paul Enenbach
Source: Flickr / enenquack
From Classic Trains: “A Burlington Route switcher prepares to move several baggage-express cars at the Railway Express terminal near Chicago’s Union Station in 1961. In the foreground, a Pennsy switcher moves motive power — two E8As and an E7B — for a train into position at the station.”
Photo by J. David Ingles
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Caption: “A pair of Pennsylvania Railroad E-units are crossing the South Shore tracks at Burnham Tower just east of the South Shore's station at Hegewisch. After crossing the South Shore the units will cross the Chicago & Western Indiana, by which so many railroads gained access from State Line Tower - about a mile behind me - to Chicago. THEN the wheels will clump across the Norfolk & Western's former Nickel Plate mainline from Chicago to Buffalo. The train behind those two PRR units is the every-other-day South Wind on its way to Florida by way of connections at Louisville. This branch of the Pennsy connects the mainline to Pittsburgh with the mainline to Indianapolis and Louisville. Burnham Tower is just to my left.”
Burnham, Illinois
June 17, 1967
Photo by Paul Enenbach
Source: Flickr / enenquack
Rock Island E-unit Blue Island IL 1978 by Mark LLanuza on Flickr.
The eastbound Quad Cities Rocket coming into Blue Island, Illinois. 1978 Photo by Mark Llanuza
Top: “Milwaukee Road's Morning Hiawatha has just left Chicago Union Station on a northerly course, but now has completed a sharp westerly turn to cross under the C&NW tracks heading into North Western Station, and over Clinton Street, about halfway between Fulton and Kinzie.”
Bottom: “The Morning Hiawatha is now headed west towards Minneapolis, but not on exclusively Milwaukee Road rails. These are the joint tracks of the PRR and the Milwaukee. The position light signal, the head of which is showing above that last car, and another one, the back of which is beyond the Milwaukee Avenue viaduct, signify the PRR's part-ownership.”
Chicago
April 2, 1971
Photos by Paul Enenbach
Top: Milwaukee Road FP7 101-A crosses Canal Street as it heads into Chicago Union Station.
Bottom: A Pennsy GP7-powered Panhandle freight crosses Canal Street and will run on the though track on the east side of Chicago Union Station.
Early 1960's
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The Liberty Limited was a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train that ran between Chicago and Washington, DC.
Chicago near Union Station
Photo by John W. Barriger III 1930s
PRR Baldwin DR-4-4-1500 9570 by Chuck Zeiler on Flickr.
Pennsylvania Railroad Baldwin DR-4-4-1500 9570 on the Pielet Brothers Scrap Yard setout track across from EMD at La Grange, Illinois on November 15, 1964. Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This locomotive was built in March 1949 ( c/n 73701 ), one of 34 DR-4-4-1500 “Sharknose” A units numbered in the 9568A - 9593A and 9700A - 9707A number series.