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Pennsylvania Railroad's single class S-2 #6200, the only example built of the 6-8-6 wheel arrangement and the largest direct-drive turbine locomotive ever built, appeared at the Chicago Railroad Fair.
The fair was apparently the brainchild of Chicago & North Western Railway Public Relations Manager Frank Koval, and was intended to commemorate one hundred years of railroading in Chicago. It opened on the 20th July 1948 and ran until Labor Day. It was so successful that it ran for a second year from the 25th June to the 2nd October 1949.
Thirty-eight railroad companies participated in what was the last great national assembly of railroad equipment and technology in the US. There were two and a half miles of railroad, and at least eighteen locomotives operated under their own power during the "Wheels a-Rolling" pageant. Thirty additional locomotives and pieces of equipment were part of the general exhibition.
prr_6200_01
Pennsylvania Railroad's single class S-2 #6200, the only example built of the 6-8-6 wheel arrangement and the largest direct-drive turbine locomotive ever built, appeared at the Chicago Railroad Fair.
The fair was apparently the brainchild of Chicago & North Western Railway Public Relations Manager Frank Koval, and was intended to commemorate one hundred years of railroading in Chicago. It opened on the 20th July 1948 and ran until Labor Day. It was so successful that it ran for a second year from the 25th June to the 2nd October 1949.
Thirty-eight railroad companies participated in what was the last great national assembly of railroad equipment and technology in the US. There were two and a half miles of railroad, and at least eighteen locomotives operated under their own power during the "Wheels a-Rolling" pageant. Thirty additional locomotives and pieces of equipment were part of the general exhibition.