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| Title: |
Air Brake Innovation |
| Description: |
PRR 4-4-0 #13 was the first locomotive to be fitted with a Westinghouse compressed air brake system. Date and location approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1900 Upload Date: 10/7/2025 11:54:35 AM |
| Location: |
Unknown, PA |
| Author: |
Unknown |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 13(4-4-0) |
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143 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Centennial History Of The PRR, Page 716, 1949 |
| Description: |
Here is a photo from page 716 in the "Centennial History Of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company: 1846-1946" that was compiled by George H. Burgess & Miles C. Kennedy and published in 1949. Photo Caption: "One of the first trains to be equipped with Westinghouse Air Brakes. This locomotive was the third Pennsylvania engine to be equipped with such brakes." Shown here is PRR engine #13, a D-1 (4-4-0) "American" built in the Altoona Machine Shops during April of 1869, sold to the Northern Central Railroad in December of 1882, and retired in December of 1891 after 22 years of multi-road service. |
| Photo Date: |
4/13/1949 Upload Date: 9/7/2017 2:44:11 AM |
| Location: |
Altoona, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Steam,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 13(4-4-0) |
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1235 Comments: 0 |
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