"Modern Locomotives and Cars 1939 - Pennsylvania Railroad" booklet 1939 - steam passenger locomotive S1
Produced for presentation at the 1939 New York World's Fair a booklet issued by one of the railroad greats - the Pennsylvania Railroad and describing the new rolling stock the company was then introducing.
Only one S1 was ever constructed, at the PRR's Altoona Workshops, and numbered 6100. Intended to demostrate the use of various technologies the locomotive, due to its size and complexity as well as being 'a one off' was somewhat confined in its use and indeed had a short service life being withdrawn by 1948. Sadly it was broken for scrap. In common with the electric streamlined GG1 locomotives Raymond Loewy was involved in the industrial design and styling of the locomotive casings. This image looks to be of the model of the proposed S1 rather than the completed locomotive.
"Modern Locomotives and Cars 1939 - Pennsylvania Railroad" booklet 1939 - steam passenger locomotive S1
Produced for presentation at the 1939 New York World's Fair a booklet issued by one of the railroad greats - the Pennsylvania Railroad and describing the new rolling stock the company was then introducing.
Only one S1 was ever constructed, at the PRR's Altoona Workshops, and numbered 6100. Intended to demostrate the use of various technologies the locomotive, due to its size and complexity as well as being 'a one off' was somewhat confined in its use and indeed had a short service life being withdrawn by 1948. Sadly it was broken for scrap. In common with the electric streamlined GG1 locomotives Raymond Loewy was involved in the industrial design and styling of the locomotive casings. This image looks to be of the model of the proposed S1 rather than the completed locomotive.