PRR 2-8-0 #543

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Tom Beckett	General	Nice view of a working engine. Looks like he's taking water. Blissville is on the Long Island RR Montauk Branch in Long Island City, a line that primarily handled freight traffic west of Jamaica. LIRR was a subidiary of the Pennsy from 1900 to 1965, and many of PRR's steam locomotives rotated on and off the Island, including the famed K 4's, which were commonly seen systemwide, and often on the Montauk weekend parlor car trains. This practice, oddly, ended when the railroads dieselized-and LIRR went first, its last regular service steam train running with G5 4-6-0's on Oct 9 1955. The Pennsy would hang on til around Thanksgiving 1957, its last steam runs nearby on the NY&LB in Jersey. Very few PRR diesels worked on the Island.	11/4/2015 1:05:26 AM

PRR 2-8-0 #543
This smart looking Consolidation started out as a product of the PRR Juniata Shops in January, 1909, as class H8b member. Subsequently it was rebuilt as an H8sb in February, 1915, rebuilt again as H9s in September, 1923 and finally retired in August of 1948 with 40 years of service as its achievement. Max Miller reprint photo
Date: 5/8/1946	Location: Blissville, NY	Views: 449	Collection Of: Gary Everhart
Locomotives: PRR 543(2-8-0)			Author: Gary Everhart

Picture Categories: Roster,Steam		This picture is part of album: PRR STEAM ALBUM

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