Im after a good prototype picture of a locomotive similar to my Pennsy L1 seen below-
Since i cant find a good enough picture to work from of an L1, (they all seem to be very old, low resolution) something similar will suffice. The 2-8-4 at the top of this page in the banner is the effect im looking for but i need a good prototype picture.
The loco in the picture is an I (eye) 1, not an L (el) 1.
Shamokin, PA, 1956:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=245737
She’s pretty rough. That’s the trouble with steam - by the time you can round up lots of color photos, it was in sad shape. At least you can get the general idea, and a good look at the weathered brown/black color.
The Denver Public Library has a lot of excellent B&W photos from earlier times that are VERY hard to find info for. Here’s a shot from 1930. The PRR was not known for sparkling steam, even then.
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00014275+OP-14275
Don Ball’s book, The Pennsylvania Railroad: 1940s-1950s is a good source of color photos, and has a number of I1 pictures.
Here is a site with a lot of PRR Steam locomotive pictures, not all as are dirty as many think. Also the weathering is over a gloss paint and the shine shows under all the weathering.
Regards
Rick
DTI:
That’s a great page! I think I recognize some of these photos from the Denver Library archive.
Wow, look at all the patches on that tender:
http://prrsteam.pennsyrr.com/images/prr7109.jpg
Nice and clean for an H…and ditto on the patches:
http://prrsteam.pennsyrr.com/images/prr7608.jpg
Yuck, PRR engines are UGLY with centered headlights. Must have been experimental, glad it wasn’t continued:
http://prrsteam.pennsyrr.com/images/prr8527.jpg
Sparkly K4 in the 30s - what a beauty. Look how light that smokebox color is. I wonder if the Front End Paint lost aluminum powder during the war, and never got it back?
I own that engine as well. Nice little brute. Needs a bit of breakin in.
Thanks for the links guys, very helpful. That first one incidently is the first picture of one of these ive seen with the bigger tender.
Thanks for pointing out my mistake, im abit of a newbie when it comes to steamers!
This is an L1:
Thanks. Im suprised how some parts of it look similar, like the running plate along the boiler, cylinders and the leading truck. Theres some good colors in that picture for my purposes too.
That was standard on the Lines West portion of the Pennsy. But I agree, it’s pretty much b***-ugly.