These pics of my father’s all appear to be taken on the same day as the K4 pic I shared last week. The first is a P5 motor with a freight (this is a westbound right?). I wonder what is in the cars.
Not a lot has changed, but the track is in better shape today, I am sure. The Camden train is about to depart, headed south on the northbound (eastbound) “local” track. It would not stay there very long or it would delay a northbound (estbound) train stopping at the station. I note a regular P-70 coach is behind the tender, not the more usual P-54 shorty often assigned. Terrific photos.
As you surmised, the first pic is looking NE at a presumably-westward train, and the third pic is looking west. In the second one the photographer is standing on the low-level platform looking west at the train that is on the track on the south side of the south high platform-- i.e. the platform ordinarily used by eastward trains. No doubt when you show the pic to the guys at the PRR Yahoogroup they’ll be able to give the 1947 arrival schedule from Camden.