After battling its way westward over the Allegheny Mountains, the Pennsylvania Railroad’s mainline turned into a nearly straight and level raceway for the final dash to Chicago. In the waning days of steam, that 278-mile stretch from Crestline, Ohio to the Windy City was the scene of high drama, as the Pennsy and Baldwin Locomotive Works, its favored locomotive builder, tried in vain to resist the diesel revolution. Experiments like the duplex-drive T1 and S1 powered the Broadway Limited, Golden Arrow and other Pennsy name trains at speeds that often exceeded 100 mph. But perhaps the most innovative racer was the Class S2 No. 6200 steam turbine.

The drive system that powered No. 6200 was both revolutionary — for a locomotive — and incredibly simple in concept. High-pressure boiler steam was used to spin a turbine wheel. The turbine was attached to a gear train that powered two of the engine’s four driver axles, and side rods transmitted power to the other two axles. Like the Fairbanks Morse Train Master shown elsewhere in this catalog, No. 6200 used proven technology borrowed from WW II Navy ships, where steam turbines and gear trains delivered up to 55,000 horsepower to a single battleship propeller shaft.

2019 Volume 2 Catalog

Click HERE to see it online.

It's Easy To Add WiFi To Your DCS Layout

Click HERE To Learn More About DCS and WiFi Control

Click here to unsubscribe.